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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.Job Description\nThis role will be responsible for leading a team of approximately 8 software engineers, who range from senior to junior level. We are looking for someone who is a very strong software engineer, who may have some previous experience of leading small, agile software engineering teams.\nAs a Software Engineering Manager, you won’t just be staring at code; you’ll be building the team that writes it. You are responsible for the growth, productivity, and happiness of your engineers. Your goal is to bridge the gap between business objectives and technical execution, ensuring we ship high-quality products while maintaining a healthy, sustainable engineering culture.\nKey Responsibilities\nPeople Leadership:Mentor and coach engineers at all levels. You’ll handle performance reviews, career mapping, and one-on-ones to ensure everyone has a clear path to promotion.\n\nDelivery & Execution:Own the \"how\" and \"when.\" You’ll work with Product Managers to define roadmaps, manage sprints, and remove any blockers slowing the team down.\n\nTechnical Strategy:While you might not be pushing code daily, you’ll participate in design reviews and ensure the team is making scalable architectural decisions.\n\nRecruiting:Actively participate in hiring to scale the team with diverse, high-caliber talent.\n\nCulture Building:Foster an environment of psychological safety, continuous learning, and \"blame-free\" post-mortems.\n\nWhat We’re Looking For\nEmotional Intelligence: You can navigate difficult conversations with empathy and clarity.\n\nTechnical Depth: You can still \"talk shop\" and understand the implications of $O(n)$ complexity or microservices architecture without needing a refresher.\n\nOperational Excellence: Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and a data-driven approach to measuring team velocity and health.\n\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\n\nA relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering\n\n7+ years of experience in commercial software engineering\n\nFull stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end\n\nA strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing, scalable software solutions\n\nPrevious experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications\n\nPrevious experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications\n\nStrong communication and collaboration skills\n\nDesirable:\nExperience of leading and managing software development teams\n\nPrevious working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)\n\nJava and/or Kotlin\n\nStruts and Sprint Boot\n\nREST APIs\n\nSQL (preferably MSSQL)\n\nVue, Angular, React, HTML/CSS\n\nAndroidX, Compose, Room\n\nGradle\n\nCI/CD using GitHub Actions\n\nXML processing, XSLT, Saxon, JAXB\n\nNice to have:\nDistributed event streaming platforms (Azure Event Hubs, Apache Kafka)\n\nOAuth 2.0, OpenID Connect, JWT\n\nGoogle Web Toolkit (GWT), Kotlin multiplatform\n\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\n\nTwo weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus)\n\n25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays\n\nAttractive defined contribution pension scheme\n\nPrivate medical insurance\n\nEmployee stock purchase plan\n\nFlexible working options\n\nLife assurance\n\nEnhanced maternity and paternity pay\n\nCareer development support and wide ranging learning opportunities\n\nEmployee health and wellbeing support EAP, wellbeing guidance etc\n\nCarbon neutral initiatives/goals\n\nCorporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days\n\nWell known companies discount scheme\n\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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