Hands On, Full Stack Software Engineering Manager

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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

The 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.

Within 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 Fire agencies.

Job Description

This role is hybrid, consisting of work from our offices and home, with home-working permitted most of the time and offices being used for meetings and team days. You will ideally be based in and around our Glasgow office.

Our Motorola Glasgow office is our worldwide centre of excellence for our mobile software development and we would like applicants to be located within commuting distance of this office, however this is a hybrid role where the candidate will have the option to work from home some/most days if preferred – with the office being used for occasional in-person meetings and team days. 

This role will be responsible for leading a small team of approximately 7 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. The ideal candidate will not just act as a people manager: we wish for the candidate to be ‘hands-on’ and contribute to the team’s velocity by writing code – and to be a true technical leader to the team - guiding and leading on best engineering practices and helping shape our engineering roadmap and architectural design.

Basic Requirements

Required:

• A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering

• 7+ years of experience in commercial software engineering

• Full stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end

• A strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing, scalable software solutions.

• Strong communication and collaboration skills.

• Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency

Desirable:

• Experience of leading and managing software development teams

• Previous experience building high performing scalable server applications using technologies such as Java or C#

• Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications

• Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)

Nice to have:

• Previous experience of developing web applications using HTML, CSS, React, etc.

• Previous experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications (such as Android and iOS) using technologies such as Java, Kotlin, Objective C, or React Native.

• Previous experience of architecting and developing .net/Windows applications, with experience of Windows UI frameworks (e.g. WPF, WinUI, etc.)

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.  

• 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.

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Travel Requirements

10-25%

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.