Senior Software Engineer, Frontend (TypeScript)

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 seasoned developer who can navigate complex logic, manage sophisticated state, and help us steer our architecture forward.

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, designs, and maintains software for the organization’s products and systems.

• Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain throughput and program consistency.

• Develops, validates, and tests: structures and user documentation.

• Architects and implements complex state management patterns and robust API integrations to support a scaling ecosystem.

• Optimizes delivery by contributing to CI/CD pipelines and leveraging Firebase services for rapid, reliable feature deployment.

Basic Requirements

• Experience: in software engineering experience, with a heavy focus on modern frontend architecture.

• Complex Logic & State: Proven ability to manage intricate application states and data flows (e.g., Pinia, Vuex, or Redux).

• API & Infrastructure: Deep understanding of consuming RESTful APIs and hands-on experience with Firebase and CI/CD workflows.

• Technical Stack: Advanced proficiency in TypeScript and modern CSS/HTML.

• Engineering Mindset: A strong foundation in design patterns and the ability to drive architectural changes across a large codebase.

• Collaboration: Demonstrated team player skills and a willingness to mentor others.

Desired Skills

• Resilient Systems: Excitement about building, operating, and maintaining resilient, scalable systems.

• Global Architecture: Passion for architecting scalable frontend systems that impact a global community of users.

• Observability: Drive for frontend observability to understand performance and be able to diagnose complex logic problems.

• Remote Culture: The team is highly distributed across geographies, and you will thrive in an environment of remote work and asynchronous communication.

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.