Senior Software Engineer - API & Dev Experience

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

The 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 area 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 Strategy workstream, providing solutions and governance over product API in the ecosystem internally or externally exposed.

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced and technically adept Senior Engineer to join our team. You won't just write code; you will define how developers interact with our ecosystem. You will lead technical decision-making, mentor other engineers, and work directly with the development of solutions related to APIs and Developer's experience.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-First Design: Design the metadata models and schemas that define how APIs are discovered and consumed across the company.
• 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.
• Mentorship: Act as the technical anchor for the team, reviewing code and setting standards for scalability and security.

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#) and modern JavaScript/TypeScript (Node.js), React or Angular.
• 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).
• Experience building "Platform" or "Internal Tooling" products is a huge plus.

Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

Yes

_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.