Senior Back 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. 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 Are you a software engineer looking for your next challenge? Are you looking to advance your career by collaborating with experts on a next-generation video management system? Do you want to join a highly skilled team based in Edinburgh and across the UK, influencing the direction of future features and bringing innovation and dynamism to our work?

Motorola Solutions’ Avigilon Alta Video brings Cloud video security systems to the next level. Alta’s cloud-based video security solution offers industry leading full AI video analytics and exceptional operational insights. The Alta Video engineering team injects intelligence into their approach to security and all their solutions. They help organisations see, understand, and act on their surroundings to protect people, business, and reputation in real-time.

We are seeking talented software engineers with significant experience to expand our teams and contribute to product development. We offer a hybrid working environment with 2 days in our fantastic city centre office in Edinburgh.

Job Description Are you a Senior Back End Engineer looking for your next meaningful step? Are you eager to advance your career by collaborating alongside thoughtful engineers on a next-generation video management platform? Do you want to join a supportive, skilled team based in Edinburgh and across the UK, contributing to future features and bringing fresh ideas and collaborative energy to our work?

Motorola Solutions’ Avigilon Alta Video brings cloud video security systems to the next level. Alta’s cloud-based video security solution offers industry-leading AI video analytics and operational insights.

The Alta Video engineering team integrates intelligent capabilities into security solutions. We help organizations see, understand, and act on their surroundings to protect people, businesses, and communities in real-time.

We are seeking Senior Back End Engineers with backend development experience to expand our team and help shape our core product development.

What You Will Do The Edinburgh team works with the latest video security cameras from Motorola Solutions to add new end to end features in the Alta Video solution. From one month to the next, you may be allowing customers to configure the latest analytics (such as PPE detection) or dewarping video from 360 degree fisheye devices for example.

As a Backend Engineer, you will contribute to designing, building, and maintaining our backend ecosystem. In this role, you will:

Design & Build:
Develop resilient backend services and distributed APIs that ingest, process, and manage streaming video and real-time sensor data.

Scale & Improve:
Enhance system performance, optimize throughput, and ensure high availability across multi-region cloud deployments.

Continuous Delivery:
Work with modern CI/CD pipelines and deployment tooling to enable smooth, reliable software releases.

Security & Quality:
Help maintain security best practices, participate in code reviews, and build automated testing across our codebase.

Collaborative Ownership:
Partner within a cross-functional agile team—working closely with firmware, frontend, and QA specialists  to influence feature direction.

Basic Requirements What We’re Looking…