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 OverviewThe Ecosystem Operations Team delivers solutions to the public safety sector. The group is committed to providing technology and tools which will allow customers to focus on their mission, and enable them to respond faster with smarter and safer decisions. The group builds integrations between different products and features such as Computer Aided Dispatch (CAD), Records Management Systems (RMS), Jail Management Systems and Evidences management among other offerings. Interfaces are typically between Motorola Solutions, Inc. (MSI) products and third party applications. The team is in charge of API Enablement front, providing solutions and governance over product API in the ecosystem internally or externally exposed.
Job Description
Analyzes, develops, designs, and maintains software for the organization’s products and systems. Performs system integration of software and hardware to maintain throughput and program consistency. Develops, validates, and tests: structures and user documentation.
We are seeking a highly experienced and technically adept Senior Engineer to join our team. You will be a critical player in designing, building, and deploying the core technologies that facilitate seamless data exchange and workflow orchestration. This role requires a strong background in API development, system integration, and a strategic mindset to translate business goals into robust, scalable technical solutions.
Key Responsibilities
API Strategy & Design: Drive the technical API strategy for both internal cross-product integrations and external partnership programs, ensuring designs are scalable, secure, and developer-friendly.
Strategic Integrations: Design, build, and deploy high-value strategic integrations with third-party applications and services, making it effortless to ingest and distribute data across our portfolio.
Collaborate with product teams to identify high-value internal cross-product use cases and define the necessary API architecture and development to enable them.
Contribute to the architecture and best practices for our developer programs to support external partners leveraging our APIs.
Basic Requirements
- Experience: 7+ years of professional experience in software engineering, with a significant focus on API development, distributed systems, and enterprise-level integration.
- Deep API Expertise: Proven expertise in designing and implementing RESTful APIs (or similar protocols), including API lifecycle management, security (OAuth, API Keys), documentation (OpenAPI/Swagger), and versioning.
- Development Proficiency: Strong hands-on development skills in at least one Object-Oriented programming language (e.g., Java, C#).
- Data Modeling & Management: Strong experience working with and optimizing both SQL (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g., MongoDB, CosmosDB) databases.
- Integration Principles: Excellent understanding of integration patterns, message queues, event-driven architectures, and data transformation techniques, including familiarity with XSLT for complex data mapping.
- DevOps & CI/CD: Practical experience implementing and maintaining modern continuous integration/continuous delivery pipelines, preferably using GitHub Actions.
- Cloud Development: Experience building and deploying applications in a public cloud environment (Azure preferred).
Desirable/Bonus Qualifications
- Cloud API Management: Significant experience with Azure API Manager (or similar cloud API Gateways/Management platforms like AWS API Gateway, Apigee, Kong) is a major advantage.
- Modern Architecture: Experience designing, deploying, and managing services using Microservices architecture and container orchestration technologies like Kubernetes.
- Integration Platforms: Experience with integration platform technologies such as MuleSoft (Anypoint Platform) or other similar platforms.
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Travel RequirementsNone
Relocation ProvidedNone
Position TypeExperiencedReferral Payment PlanYes
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.
Skills Required
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience focused on API development, distributed systems, and enterprise integration
- Expertise designing and implementing RESTful APIs or similar protocols, including lifecycle management, security, documentation, and versioning
- Strong hands-on development skills in at least one object-oriented programming language, such as Java or C#
- Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, including optimization
- Understanding of integration patterns, message queues, event-driven architectures, data transformation, and XSLT
- Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, preferably with GitHub Actions
- Experience building and deploying applications in a public cloud environment, preferably Azure
- Experience with Azure API Management or comparable API gateway and management platforms
- Experience with microservices architecture and Kubernetes
- Experience with MuleSoft Anypoint Platform or similar integration platforms
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Healthcare Strength — Healthcare coverage is effective from day one with multiple national carrier options and bundled prescription coverage. Offerings also include mental health benefits and Flexible Spending Accounts, with optional pet insurance.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off includes generous PTO with 9–10 paid holidays, and many salaried roles use a Flex Time Off or unlimited PTO approach. Paid parental and family leave plus adoption assistance expand support.
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Retirement Support — Retirement benefits feature a 401(k) with company match and immediate vesting. Additional financial programs like an employee stock purchase plan, performance bonuses, and company equity bolster long-term value.
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What We Do
Motorola Solutions is a global technology company that provides mission-critical communications, video security, and command center software to help protect people, property, and places for public safety agencies and enterprises.
