Software Engineer, Frontend (TypeScript)

Motorola Solutions · Edinburgh

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

The Avigilon Alta Video UI team is responsible for the mission-critical infrastructure that powers our VMS. We are currently evolving our platform to support deep-tier interconnection across the Motorola product portfolio. Our team values high-performance engineering, architectural integrity, and a commitment to building the most reliable real-time tools in the industry.

While our stack features Vue 3, Pinia, and TypeScript on the frontend and Go on the backend, we prioritize engineering fundamentals over specific library knowledge. We are looking for a developer who can navigate logic, manage state, and help us build maintainable solutions.

We have a fantastic city center office in the heart of Edinburgh and fully embrace a hybrid home/office working model, with an aim for 2 days in the office.

Job Description

Analyzes, develops, maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Familiarity with/interest in engineering patterns and best practices.
Develops, validates, and tests: can build tested, maintainable code and debug when necessary.
Implements state management patterns and API integrations to support a scaling ecosystem.
Delivery: basic understanding of CI/CD principles and deployment, Git.
Communicates: comfortable collaborating with other teams on solutions and reaching out for information/requirements when necessary.

Basic Requirements

Experience: 1-3 years of software engineering experience with knowledge of HTML, CSS, TypeScript and ideally modern frontend frameworks.
Logic & State: Understanding of application state patterns, data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, or Redux) and reactivity/observables.
API & Infrastructure: hands-on experience with RESTful API, websockets.. Solid understanding of web development principles.
Engineering Mindset: a good foundation in data structures/algorithms and design patterns. Ability to see the long-term implications of solutions.
Collaboration: Demonstrated team player skills and a willingness to work with others.

Desired Skills

Resilient Systems: excited about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems. Tests their code.
Analysis: ability to investigate and get to the root cause of issues and find a solution.
Flexibility: happy exploring new areas of the codebase and jumping into new features (with help, of course). Can prioritise effectively.
Willingness to learn: we’re always looking to improve our codebase, whether via patterns or libraries and we review code.
Remote Culture: the team is distributed across geographies, and you’re happy working remotely part of the week.

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 of additional pay per year (holiday bonus)
25 days holiday entitlement + bank holidays
Attractive defined contribution pension scheme
Private medical insurance
Employee stock purchase plan
Flexible working options
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 scheme

We are an equal opportunities employer and we want you to have every opportunity to shine and show us your talents, please let us know if there is anything we can do to make sure the process works for you. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees

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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.

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