Senior Back End Software Engineer

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
Motorola 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 analyze 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 center, actively advancing our mission of "Solving for safer".

Our engineering hub is based in the heart of Edinburgh city center, operating under a purposeful hybrid model with two collaborative days together on-site each week.
Job Description
As a Senior Back End Software Engineer, you will contribute to the core ecosystem powering our next-generation Avigilon Alta Video platform. Our close-knit engineering team values curiosity, high technical ownership, and pragmatic problem-solving. In this role, you will design scalable microservices, expand analytical capabilities, and collaborate across disciplines to deliver cloud solutions that matter.
We embrace an inclusive culture where every voice contributes to our collective impact. We recognize that talent takes many paths; candidates demonstrating equivalent practical experience alongside a strong track record of engineering delivery are encouraged to apply.

Key Responsibilities
System Architecture & Cloud Engineering

- Design and implement high-throughput backend services and APIs that support real-time video management and intelligent analytics

- Optimize distributed cloud architectures for resilience, scalability, low latency, and operational efficiency

- Guide technical decisions across our service ecosystem, driving code quality and robust testing automation

Feature Delivery & Assisted Intelligence Integration

- Expand video intelligence pipelines, integrating "Priority Intelligence™" features to deliver an Assisted Experience that augments human decision-making

- Develop end-to-end device integration workflows, supporting multi-camera configurations, sensor inputs, and advanced analytic rule processing

- Implement reliable telemetry, logging, and operational instrumentation to observe and diagnose distributed cloud workloads

Collaborative Ownership & Technical Leadership

- Partner closely with frontend, firmware, QA, and product teams in an agile environment to shape technical roadmaps and feature delivery

- Conduct structured code reviews and provide thoughtful engineering mentorship to uphold engineering standards and continuous team growth

- Champion secure development lifecycles, helping to ensure that system designs align with modern enterprise cybersecurity baselines

Basic Requirements

- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering

- Substantial software development experience in backend engineering or distributed systems

Technical Expertise
We encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box. We value transferable skills, enthusiasm, and diverse perspectives.

- Programming Foundations to architect services in modern backend languages, with proficiency in Golang, Python, C, C++, Rust, or Java

- Distributed Cloud Systems to design scalable, fault-tolerant microservices and RESTful or gRPC APIs

- Automated Testing & CI/CD to build resilient test suites and maintain continuous integration pipelines

- English Proficiency to articulate technical concepts and collaborate across cross-functional distributed teams

Professional Experience

- Technical Mentorship to conduct rigorous peer reviews and elevate team engineering practices

- Agile Collaboration to partner across firmware, web, and infrastructure disciplines from design through delivery

- Problem Solving to isolate and resolve performance bottlenecks across complex cloud video ecosystems

Preferred Qualifications (Optional)

- Hands-on development experience building production services in Go (Golang)

- Familiarity with TypeScript and modern web architectures

- Practical background working with video streaming, computer vision workflows, or containerized cloud deployments (Docker, Kubernetes)

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 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.