Back End Software Engineer
Motorola Solutions3 days ago
Edinburgh, United KingdomMid Level
Responsibilities
- Build, test, and deploy resilient microservices for a high-throughput cloud video management system.
- Help ensure scalability and operational efficiency across distributed cloud environments.
- Partner with product managers and architects to turn user stories into high-quality technical implementations.
- Champion clean architecture, testing standards, peer reviews, and shared engineering practices.
- Analyze production metrics and telemetry to optimize backend services and resolve performance bottlenecks.
- Collaborate with cross-functional engineering teams across the UK and internationally.
- Explore emerging technologies, tools, and technical prototypes while contributing to mentoring and knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering, Computer Science, or another technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
- Solid software engineering experience building distributed backend systems and services.
- Ability to collaborate in person with the team at the Edinburgh office.
- Experience designing backend services using one or more of Go, Python, C, C++, Rust, or C#.
- Experience building or integrating web services and working with relational or distributed NoSQL databases.
- Ability to communicate technical concepts clearly in English and collaborate within cross-functional teams.
- Preferred: experience deploying services on Google Cloud Platform or another public cloud platform.
- Preferred: experience or interest in modern AI developer tooling and familiarity with TypeScript or React.
Benefits
- Hybrid working model with two collaborative on-site days per week in Edinburgh.
- Competitive salary and bonus schemes.
- Two weeks of additional pay per year as a holiday bonus.
- 25 days of holiday plus bank holidays.
- 10% development time for innovation and personal development.
- Defined contribution pension, employee stock purchase plan, private medical care, life assurance, and enhanced maternity and paternity pay.
- Career development, learning opportunities, employee health and wellbeing support, company discount schemes, volunteering support, and carbon-neutral initiatives.
- No travel or 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.