Senior Back End Software Engineer

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 For

We encourage you to apply even if you don't check every box. We value transferable skills, enthusiasm, and diverse perspectives.

• Programming Skills: Strong foundational skills in at least one general-purpose programming language (such as Golang, Python, C, C++, Rust, or Java).
• Software Development Background: Demonstrated industry experience as a Software Engineer building and maintaining backend services.
• Cloud & Distributed Systems: Experience developing backend microservices for cloud environments (GCP preferred).
• Modern Tooling: Familiarity with or interest in using AI-assisted tools within a modern development workflow.
• Product Mindset: A passion for building reliable software experiences that deliver real value to end-users.
• Background: A degree in Computer Science / Software Engineering (or an equivalent field) OR a proven track record of practical software engineering experience.
• Location & Collaboration: Ability to join us in-person at our Edinburgh city centre office 2 days per week.

Bonus Points (Nice to Have, Not Required)

• Understanding of service-oriented architecture (SOA) and building cloud-native products.
• Exposure to Machine Learning, Computer Vision, or AI concepts.
• A desire to develop a well-rounded technical skill set combining backend depth with broader architectural curiosity.
• Language Flexibility: Our backend services primarily default to Go (and TypeScript for frontend). Prior Go experience is not required—we welcome engineers who are excited to learn new languages and tech stacks on the job!

What We Offer

• Hybrid Work Culture: 2 days a week in our accessible, city centre office in Edinburgh, with flexible remote options for the remaining days.
• Autonomy & Support: A respectful, team-oriented culture that values self-direction, peer mentorship, work-life harmony, and continuous growth.
• Impactful Work: Opportunities to solve complex technical challenges at scale alongside supportive colleagues in cloud security and AI.

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.