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 OverviewMotorola Solution's Access Control Division is redefining how people experience the spaces they move through, starting at the front door. Our mission is to make physical environments smarter, safer, and more seamless through modern access control and automation technology that people rely on every day. We’re building an industry-leading platform at meaningful scale, and we’re looking for engineers who want to shape the future of physical-meets-digital systems. This is a place where you’ll work on real-world problems that span distributed systems, hardware-adjacent software, security, and high-availability cloud services used by organizations around the world. You’ll join a highly collaborative, team-centric engineering culture that values strong analytical thinking, clean and pragmatic software design, and ownership from idea to production. We’re especially excited about engineers who are curious, adaptable, and comfortable working across multiple technologies, bringing both depth and range to how we build and evolve our platform.
Job Description
Responsibilities:
- Feature Development: Design and develop new features across Avigilon Alta software and web applications, from concept through production.
- Integrations & Ecosystem: Build and maintain third-party integrations, produce clear developer documentation, and support APIs and SDKs that power our broader ecosystem.
- Platform Maturity: Help evolve our application platform and marketplace, contributing to long-term scalability, extensibility, and developer experience.
- System Architecture: Partner with product and engineering leaders to influence system architecture, technical direction, and design decisions across the platform.
- Cloud Infrastructure: Develop and operate software for deploying, managing, and monitoring production systems and cloud infrastructure.
- Quality & Craft: Write unit tests, automated UI tests, and execute test plans to ensure reliability, performance, and a high bar for quality
- Operational Excellence: Take a production-first mindset, sharing responsibility for system reliability, observability, and long-term maintainability.
- Agile Collaboration: Work closely with leadership and peers to prioritize and deliver work in a fast-moving, iterative environment
What You Bring:
Mindset & Approach
- A deep sense of curiosity and a drive to understand how systems work end-to-end
- Comfort operating in ambiguity, with the ability to turn loosely defined problems into clear, actionable solutions
- Strong ownership mentality -- you care about what happens after code ships.
- Thoughtful technical judgement and a bias toward pragmatic, maintainable solutions.
- Clear communication and a collaborative mindset; you enjoy building with others, not in isolation
Education & Experience
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, or a related discipline
- 7+ years of experience building backend systems using Node.js API frameworks (HapiJS preferred), with additional experience in Python a plus
- 5+ years of experience with JavaScript development (React preferred)
- Strong command of object-oriented design, concurrency/threading concepts, resource management, and modern agile development practices
Technical Skills
- Strong experience with SQL data stores and designing relational data models
- Familiarity with Serverless/Lambda, CloudFormation, Elastic Beanstalk, EC2/VPCs, and DynamoDB/RDS
- Proven track record building API-based integrations with services like G Suite, Microsoft Graph, Okta, OneLogin, and Slack
- Knowledge of Linux fundamentals (bash/command-line), Docker, and monitoring tools like Datadog or CloudWatch
- Experience with IoT protocols (MQTT), log/data analysis pipelines, and backend services for mobile applications
Our Values:
- Driven: We Drive Results by consistently achieving our goals, even under tough circumstances
- Partners: We maintain a Customer Focus, building strong relationships and delivering solutions centered around our clients' needs
- Innovative: We value Innovation, constantly seeking new and better ways for our organization to thrive and succeed.
- Passionate: We prioritize Self-Development, actively seeking new growth opportunities with energy, urgency, and enthusiasm.
- Accountable: We are Accountable to Others, building trust through honesty, integrity, and collaborative partnership to meet shared objectives
- Inclusive: We are Inclusive, recognizing the immense value that different perspectives and diversity bring to our team.
Target Base Salary Range: $140,000 - 180,000
Consistent with Motorola Solutions values and applicable law, we provide the following information to promote pay transparency and equity. Pay within this range varies and depends on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. The actual offer will be based on the individual candidate.
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Basic Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in software development
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. indefinitely is required. Employer work permit sponsorship is not available for this position
Travel RequirementsUnder 10%
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperienced
Referral Payment PlanNo
Our U.S. Benefits include:
Incentive Bonus Plans
Medical, Dental, Vision benefits
401K with Company Match
10 Paid Holidays
Generous Paid Time Off Packages
Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Paid Parental & Family Leave
and more!
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.
We’re committed to providing an inclusive and accessible recruiting experience for candidates with disabilities, or other physical or mental health conditions. To request an accommodation, please complete this Reasonable Accommodations Form so we can assist you.
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