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 OverviewMotorola Solutions’ Avigilon Alta Video brings cloud video security systems to the next level. Alta’s cloud-native video security platform delivers industry-leading analytics and exceptional operational insights to help organizations observe, oversee, and analyse their environments to protect people, property, and places in real time.
The Alta Video Engineering Team injects intelligence into our approach to safety and across every solution we engineer. Our team designs, builds, and scales intelligent video microservices and distributed cloud infrastructure that empower human decision-makers at the centre, actively advancing our mission of "Solving for safer".
Our engineering hub is based in the heart of Edinburgh city centre, operating under a purposeful hybrid model with two collaborative days together on-site each week.
Job Description
At Motorola Solutions, we believe that everything starts with our people. We empower each Motorolan to bring their authentic self to work, innovate with purpose, and build software that protects lives in the moments that matter. As a Full Stack Engineer joining our Edinburgh team, you will design, build, and scale resilient cloud-native applications and high-throughput services that help to provide critical safety intelligence across the globe.
In this role, you will be part of an inclusive, collaborative engineering environment where intelligent video analytics, event-driven microservices, and modern web interfaces intersect. You will partner across disciplines to translate complex operational workflows into performant interfaces and distributed services. We value practical problem-solving, technical curiosity, and foundational software engineering capability alongside equivalent practical experience.
Key Responsibilities
Front-End Architecture & User Experience
- Build responsive, high-performance web applications using modern TypeScript frameworks to deliver real-time video feeds
- Partner with product designers and engineering leads to transform complex security workflows into clean, reliable interfaces that assist critical decision-making
- Optimize frontend state management, browser rendering performance, and network reliability across distributed client environments
Backend Microservices & Distributed Cloud Systems
- Design, implement, and maintain resilient backend services and high-throughput APIs primarily utilizing Golang across a multi-language stack
- Evolve cloud-native architecture to scale data ingestion and video processing pipelines across distributed microservices
- Take end-to-end ownership of service lifecycle, contributing technical documentation and supporting engineering teams consuming your APIs
System Quality & Continuous Delivery
- Invest in automated testing, observability, and robust CI/CD pipelines throughout the software development lifecycle to uphold system reliability
- Integrate AI developer tooling across the engineering workflow to improve code quality, documentation accuracy, and delivery velocity
- Participate constructively in architectural design reviews, code reviews, and cross-functional technical initiatives
Basic Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or technical field
- Solid experience in full stack software development across cloud-native web applications and backend services
Technical Expertise & Experience
We encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box. We value transferable skills, enthusiasm, and diverse perspectives.
- Multi-Language Engineering using Golang, Python, C, C++, Rust, or C# to architect, build, and maintain high-throughput backend services and microservices
- TypeScript & Web Frameworks (such as React, Angular, or Vue.js) to build high-performance client applications and state-driven user interfaces
- Distributed Cloud Infrastructure to deploy and run resilient services using containerization and infrastructure as code
- AI-Assisted Tooling to accelerate software delivery, streamline unit testing, and optimize code workflows
- API Architecture to implement clean, well-documented REST and event-driven interfaces
Professional Experience
- End-to-End Component Ownership to deliver reliable production services from initial design through maintenance
- Cross-Functional Collaboration to translate complex user workflows into reliable software solutions alongside product and platform teams
- Quality-First Engineering to establish automated test suites, conduct rigorous peer reviews, and maintain production observability
Preferred Qualifications (Optional)
- Practical experience developing microservices in secondary languages such as Python, C, C++, Rust, or Java
- Familiarity with real-time streaming protocols, WebSockets, or video ingestion pipelines
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes orchestration and cloud monitoring frameworks
The Avigilon Alta Video teams default to programming using Go for backend and Typescript for frontend, but also use a wide variety of different languages and frameworks. It is not expected that you would be familiar with Go (or any of the other languages we use) but you should be enthusiastic and willing to learn new things!
We are looking for a team player who thinks holistically, enjoys solving complex problems and thrives in an agile, cross functional environment.
We believe that a diverse and inclusive workplace spawns innovation – the more diverse our employees are, the more ideas and talents we have to excel as a leader in the technology sector. 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 additional pay per year (holiday bonus).
- 25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays.
- 10% time (1 day in every 10 to pursue innovation and personal development).
- Attractive defined contribution pension scheme.
- Employee stock purchase plan.
- Flexible working options.
- Private medical care.
- 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 schemes.
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Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperiencedReferral Payment PlanYesCompanyMotorola 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.
