Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Motorola Solutions; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work models

Paid time off

Paid parental and family leave

Health care benefits

Global wellness resources

Employee assistance programs

Rotation programs

Mentor relationships

Learning and development opportunities

Retirement benefits

Employee bonuses

Stock grants & employee stock purchase

Job summary

Motorola Solutions is seeking a Senior Full-Stack Engineer to drive evidence management features on Google Cloud Platform. You will own architectural decisions, define service contracts for Python/Java microservices, and contribute as an IC with leading technical initiatives.

You'll lead frame-accurate media processing with FFmpeg, build high-performance UI for video trimming, and mentor peers while integrating AI-powered capabilities such as scene description and object detection.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years of progressive technical experience.
• Experience owning complex, distributed features in full-stack environments.
• Strong architectural and API design capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Architectural ownership for video trimming, transcription, and packaging services.
• Define and own APIs for Evidence Domain and service contracts between microservices.
• Lead end-to-end feature delivery, including UI, APIs, and cloud deployment.
• Mentor peers, conduct thorough code reviews, and improve engineering standards.
• Integrate AI-powered features and monitor live metrics for accuracy.

Skills

Angular 17+ (Signals)

GCP (GKE/Cloud Run/Cloud Storage)

Python

Java

Full-stack development

FFmpeg/GStreamer

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

FFmpeg

GStreamer

Git

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

• Join our dynamic, agile R&D team as an Senior Full-Stack Engineer, where you will serve as a key architectural driver for our Evidence Management features, deployed on Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• You will be responsible for the end-to-end success of major features—from proposing architectural approaches for video extraction to defining service contracts for AI-generated metadata
• While primarily an Individual Contributor (IC), you will take on Technical Lead responsibilities for specific initiatives, actively mentoring peers and elevating our engineering standards. We expect a transformative approach, leveraging AI methodologies to optimize the development pipeline and ship high-performance media tools
• Architectural Ownership: Propose and facilitate technical discussions to arrive at agreed-upon architectural plans for video trimming, transcription, and packaging services
• Contract Definition & Coordination: Own the APIs for the Evidence Domain, coordinating with external consumer teams to ensure seamless integration and data integrity
• Feature Grooming & Delegation: Groom stories from Product Management requirements and break down tasks for the team to enable rapid, parallel development
• Hands-on Media Manipulation: Lead the implementation of frame-accurate video trimming, cropping, and snapshot extraction logic using libraries such as FFmpeg or GStreamer
• High-Performance UI/UX: Lead the development of the Video Trim Editor and extraction logic, ensuring frame-accurate performance and efficient GCS data handling in the browser
• Quality & Review: Conduct thorough code reviews, serving as a trusted source to catch edge cases, security gaps, and performance bottlenecks
• Pipeline Transformation: Actively contribute to development pipeline improvements (e.g., automated guardrails, RAG systems) to significantly cut down PR cycle time
• AI Integration: Participate in shipping LLM-powered features (e.g., scene description and object detection), monitoring live metrics to refine accuracy

Benefits

• Flexible work models
• Paid time off
• Paid parental and family leave
• Health care benefits
• Global wellness resources
• Employee assistance programs
• Rotation programs
• Mentor relationships
• Learning and development opportunities
• Retirement benefits
• Employee bonuses
• Stock grants & employee stock purchase plans

Frontend Expertise: Professional experience with Angular 17+ (specifically Signals) for developing highly performant, real-time user experiencesGCP Proficiency: Proven ability to deploy and manage applications on GCP (GKE, Cloud Run, Cloud Storage)System Integrity: Deep understanding of scale challenges, fault-tolerant design, and the ability to anticipate and address stress points within media-heavy architecturesMedia Processing Mastery: Practical experience with media processing tools (e.g., FFmpeg) to perform lossless trimming, transcoding, and frame-accurate media manipulationExperience & Impact: Bachelor’s degree plus 4+ years of progressive technical experience, demonstrating successful ownership of complex, distributed featuresAPI/Contract Ownership: Extensive experience designing robust service contracts and managing dependencies between Python/Java microservicesTransformative Mindset: Practical experience leveraging modern AI tools for coding, architectural trade-offs, and code analysisMust be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contractBachelors degree with 4+ years of full stack engineering and Python experienceAND 2+ years of Java experience