Senior Backend Software Engineer
Motorola Solutions3 days ago
Uxbridge, United KingdomSenior
Responsibilities
- Design and implement high-throughput backend services and APIs for real-time video management and intelligent analytics.
- Optimize distributed cloud architectures for resilience, scalability, low latency, and operational efficiency.
- Expand video intelligence pipelines and integrate Priority Intelligence features for assisted decision-making.
- Develop device integration workflows for multi-camera configurations, sensor inputs, and analytic rule processing.
- Implement telemetry, logging, and operational instrumentation for distributed cloud workloads.
- Conduct code reviews, mentor engineers, and guide technical decisions across the service ecosystem.
- Collaborate with frontend, firmware, QA, infrastructure, and product teams on technical roadmaps and feature delivery.
- Support secure development lifecycles and enterprise cybersecurity baselines.
- Travel under 10%.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering, or equivalent practical experience with a strong engineering delivery record.
- Substantial software development experience in backend engineering or distributed systems.
- Proficiency in at least one modern backend language, such as Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or Java.
- Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and RESTful or gRPC APIs.
- Experience building automated test suites and maintaining continuous integration pipelines.
- Ability to mentor engineers, conduct peer reviews, solve performance bottlenecks, and collaborate across distributed teams in English.
- Preferred experience building production services in Go.
- Familiarity with TypeScript and modern web architectures.
- Preferred experience with video streaming, computer vision workflows, containerized cloud deployments, Docker, or Kubernetes.
- Experience with machine learning, computer vision, or AI technologies is preferred.
Benefits
- Hybrid work model with two collaborative on-site days per week in Uxbridge, West London.
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
- Two weeks of additional pay per year as a holiday bonus.
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- Defined contribution pension scheme, private medical care, life assurance, and enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Employee stock purchase plan and flexible working options.
- Career development, coaching, learning opportunities, and employee health and wellbeing support.
- Carbon-neutral and corporate social responsibility initiatives, including volunteering days.
- Company discount scheme.
- No relocation provided.
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About Motorola Solutions
Motorola Solutions builds mission‑critical communications, video security and access control, body‑worn cameras, and command‑center software for public safety agencies and enterprises. It sells radios and LMR/P25 systems, cloud software, and managed services used by police, fire, and critical infrastructure operators. Headquartered in Chicago and publicly traded on the NYSE (MSI), the company was formed in 2011 after Motorola’s split and operates globally.