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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.\nDepartment Overview\nThe Motorola Solutions 'International Mobile Applications’ organisation is responsible for creating the mission critical software solutions which serve emergency first responders across public safety agencies worldwide. The solutions created by this organisation are used by hundreds of thousands of police officers, firefighters and paramedics every day and aim to improve the effectiveness of our emergency services response.The various applications that we build for first responders are deployed across a wide range of different device types and are sophisticated solutions comprising client applications, server applications, web applications and databases.\nWithin the organisation, we are organised into different product groups focusing on different sectors and territories across the world. This specific role is focused on our solution which serves UK Police agencies.\nOur ‘Pronto’ team is the largest supplier of mobile police apps in the UK, providing software to half of the UK’s 45 police forces - used by around 70,000 police officers on a daily basis. Based in the West End of Glasgow, we currently have around 80 employees. Our team started as Kelvin Connect in 2002, a spin-out company from the University of Glasgow. Now, as part of Motorola Solutions, we continue to expand with future opportunities in the UK and beyond.\nJob Description\nThis role will involve working as part of an agile team of software engineers to architect and implement complex systems for first responders. We are looking for candidates with a strong full-stack software development background and who are capable of delivering robust software to join our growing engineering team.\nYou will be responsible for helping to contribute to the entire software development lifecycle, from conceptualisation and design to implementation across platforms. You will work alongside our product owner and designers to turn complex problems into seamless, performant experiences.\nKey Responsibilities\nDevelop: Build clean, interactive, and responsive user experiences using modern frontend frameworks such as Vue.\nIntegrate: Navigate and build upon our established codebase, ensuring new functionality aligns with current architectural patterns while identifying opportunities for modernisation or refactoring.\nDesign: Design technical solutions from inception to deployment, balancing architectural best practices with great user experiences.\nCollaborate: Foster a collaborative engineering culture by participating in code reviews and sharing knowledge with teammates to solve complex technical challenges.\nContribute: Contribute to the development of new features and support architecture design as well as implementation. \nWhat We’re Looking For\nTechnical Depth: Ability to adapt quickly to a legacy codebase, with the patience and problem-solving skills needed to understand and improve upon those systems.\nInnovation: A desire to challenge established design patterns and build upon those systems. \nOperational Excellence: Experience with collaborating with a team employing Agile/Scrum methodologies.\nBasic Requirements\nRequired:\nMust be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency\nA relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering\n3+ years of experience in commercial software engineering\nFull stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end\nA strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing, scalable software solutions\nPrevious experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications\nPrevious experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications\nStrong communication and collaboration skills\nDesirable:\nPrevious working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)\nJava and/or Kotlin\nStruts and Sprint Boot\nREST APIs\nSQL (preferably MSSQL)\nVue, Angular, React, HTML/CSS\nAndroidX, Compose, Room\nGradle\nCI/CD using GitHub Actions\nXML processing, XSLT, Saxon, JAXB\nNice to have:\nDistributed event streaming platforms (Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka)\nOAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT\nGoogle Web Toolkit (GWT), Kotlin multiplatform\nExperience with Playwright\nIn 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:\nCompetitive salary and bonus schemes\nTwo weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus).\n25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays. \nAttractive defined contribution pension scheme.\nPrivate medical insurance.\nEmployee stock purchase plan.\nFlexible working options. \nLife assurance.\nEnhanced maternity and paternity pay.\nCareer development support and wide ranging learning opportunities.\nEmployee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc.\nCarbon neutral initiatives/goals.\nCorporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days.\nWell known companies discount scheme.\nTravel Requirements\nUnder 10%Relocation Provided\nNonePosition Type\nExperiencedReferral Payment Plan\nYesCompany\nMotorola Solutions UK LimitedEEO Statement\nMotorola 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.\nWe 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. 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