Software Engineer, Frontend (TypeScript)

Motorola Solutions; City of Edinburgh; Hybrid; GBP 40,000 - 60,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and bonus schemes

Two weeks of additional pay per year (

25 days holiday entitlement + bank hol

Private medical insurance

Employee stock purchase plan

Flexible working options

Life assurance

Career development opportunities

Job summary

Motorola Solutions in Edinburgh is seeking a frontend engineer with 1–3 years of experience, focusing on Vue 3, Pinia, and TypeScript. You will analyze, develop, and maintain software for our VMS platform and collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver robust features.

The role offers a hybrid work model with two days in the office, regular coaching and learning opportunities, and a benefits package including pension, private medical insurance, and stock purchase plan.

Qualifications

• 1–3 years of software engineering experience with HTML, CSS, TypeScript and modern frontend frameworks.
• Understanding of state patterns and data flows (Pinia/Vuex/Redux) and reactivity.
• Experience with RESTful APIs, websockets, and web development basics.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Analyze, develop, and maintain software for the organization’s products and systems.
• Implement state management patterns and API integrations to support a scalable ecosystem.
• Contribute to CI/CD basics, deployment, and Git-driven workflows.
• Collaborate with other teams to gather requirements and deliver solutions.

Skills

HTML/CSS

TypeScript

Frontend frameworks

State management

REST/Websockets

Team player

Tools

Vue 3

Pinia

Vuex

Redux

Git

Job description

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The Avigilon Alta Video UI team is responsible for the mission-critical infrastructure that powers our VMS. We are currently evolving our platform to support deep-tier interconnection across the Motorola product portfolio. Our team values high-performance engineering, architectural integrity, and a commitment to building the most reliable real-time tools in the industry. While our stack features Vue 3, Pinia, and TypeScript on the frontend and Go on the backend, we prioritize engineering fundamentals over specific library knowledge. We are looking for a developer who can navigate logic, manage state, and help us build maintainable solutions. We have a fantastic city center office in the heart of Edinburgh and fully embrace a hybrid home/office working model, with an aim for 2 days in the office.

Job Description

Analyzes, develops, maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Familiarity with/interest in engineering patterns and best practices. Develops, validates, and tests: can build tested, maintainable code and debug when necessary. Implements state management patterns and API integrations to support a scaling ecosystem. Delivery: basic understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment, Git. Communicates: comfortable collaborating with other teams on solutions and reaching out for information/requirements when necessary.

Basic Requirements

• Experience: 1-3 years of software engineering experience with knowledge of HTML, CSS, TypeScript and ideally modern frontend frameworks.
• Logic & State: Understanding of application state patterns, data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, or Redux) and reactivity/observables.
• API & Infrastructure: hands-on experience with RESTful API, websockets.. Solid understanding of web development principles.
• Engineering Mindset: a good foundation in data structures/algorithms and design patterns. Ability to see the long-term implications of solutions.
• Collaboration: Demonstrated team player skills and a willingness to work with others.

Desired Skills

• Resilient Systems: excited about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems.
• Tests their code.
• Analysis: ability to investigate and get to the root cause of issues and find a solution.
• Flexibility: happy exploring new areas of the codebase and jumping into new features (with help, of course). Can prioritise effectively.
• Willingness to learn: we’re always looking to improve our codebase, whether via patterns or libraries and we review code.

Remote Culture

Remote Culture: the team is distributed across geographies, and you’re happy working remotely part of the week.

Benefits and Perks

If you would like to be part of a dynamic team of people who are ambitious, focused, and hardworking then we look forward to meeting you! In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes
• Two weeks of additional pay per year (holiday bonus)
• 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays
• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme
• Private medical insurance
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Flexible working options
• Life assurance
• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay
• Career development support and wide-ranging learning opportunities
• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc
• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals
• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days
• Well-known companies discount scheme

EEO Statement

We are an equal opportunities employer and we want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents, please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the process works for you. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees #LI-DJ1 Travel Requirements None Relocation Provided None Position Type Experienced Referral Payment Plan Yes Company Motorola Solutions UK Limited EEO Statement Motorola Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other legally-protected characteristic. We are proud of our people-first and community-focused culture, empowering every Motorolan to be their most authentic self and to do their best work to deliver on the promise of a safer world. If you’d like to join our team but feel that you don’t quite meet all of the preferred skills, we’d still love to hear why you think you’d be a great addition to our team.

MOTOROLA SOLUTIONS OVERVIEW

At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We’re a global close-knit community, united by the relentless pursuit to help keep people safer everywhere. We build and connect technologies to help protect people, property and places. Our solutions foster the collaboration that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals, safer businesses, and ultimately, safer nations. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future. Learn more at www.motorolasolutions.com.