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
Basic Requirements
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.
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.
Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperiencedReferral 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.
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Healthcare Strength — Benefits materials describe medical, dental and vision coverage effective on day one with multiple national carrier options and bundled prescription coverage. Feedback suggests plan choices, telehealth, and targeted care programs provide strong access and support for varied needs.
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Parental & Family Support — Policies outline robust paid parental leave and clear processes for family and medical leaves, with continued health coverage during leave. Feedback suggests these programs are employer‑verified and prominently documented in recent plan materials.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Company information highlights paid time off, paid holidays, and a Flex Time Off approach for many salaried roles alongside flexible work models. Feedback suggests time‑off policies are positioned to be usable and supportive of work‑life balance.
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About Motorola Solutions | Solving for safer Safety and security are at the heart of everything we do at Motorola Solutions. 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.
Why Work With Us
We are a global family of driven, dynamic people who inspire and support everyone around us to be the best version of themselves. We embrace a “people first” philosophy – and are committed to creating and maintaining a culture of caring and inclusiveness. Are you ready to join our team and be a part of a close-knit community in a big company?
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