Front-end Software Engineer

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 OverviewTaking great ideas from concept to reality is what innovative companies do. At Motorola Solutions, we believe true innovation occurs when a new technology solves a problem customers didn't know they had or in a way they never thought possible. We strive to deliver solutions that bring the right information, to the right person, at the right time. We help our customers be their best in the moments that matter most – protecting citizens, connecting with shoppers and empowering IT operations.
Our growing family of web-based products are driven by our custom-built Design System, and we are looking for passionate engineers to help evolve the system with new components designed to meet the needs of our growing product portfolio. Working with the Design Team, you will be responsible for building components used throughout the company; helping developers around the world make beautiful products with a single, unified vision.
Job Description

We are looking for passionate front-end developers. Are you using CSS to repaint your kitchen? Angular to create your living room? Join us. You will be responsible for the development of beautiful, fully-functional, flexible components - meeting the needs of every product team across the company, by supplying robust, stable, reusable components that align to our broader design vision, and meet the mission critical needs of first responders in their day to day work.

Your responsibilities will include front-end development of standardized framework components, implementation of new components for the larger Design System, harvesting components from existing products (and ensuring they are generalized to work in other applications), fixing and updating existing components, optimizing all code for best-practice experience, and helping the Design System team advance a holistic ecosystem through development best practices in everything you implement. You will work in an agile environment, cooperating with other front-end engineers and UI/UX experts, remaining considerate of the needs for accessible code and components.

Basic Requirements

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Math or related fields

• Effective verbal and written English communication skills.

• Proven experience with HTML5, CSS3, SASS, Angular, React, JavaScript, TypeScript and other front-end related languages

• Experience with unit testing frameworks

• Ability to solve challenging technical problems under time pressure

• Ability to drive the problem to the solution without being supervised

• Flexibility in the approach to work and tasks

Skills nice to have:

• Proven experience in working for open source software development groups

• Experience with modern frameworks like React or Polyme

• Familiarity with Angular Material or any other component librarie

• Experience in building large and modular codebases

• Understanding principles of component-driven architecture

• Proficient understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them

• Web application testing tools and frameworks like Protractor, Selenium

• Node.js ecosystem including Webpack, Express, Gulp and Grunt.js

• Server side scripting using Java & NodeJS

• Understanding of accessibility patterns

• Focus on fluent user experience, usability and excellent performance
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Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced

Referral Payment PlanNo

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.