Software Engineering Manager

Company Overview

At Motorola Solutions we believe that everything starts with our people. Were 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 thats 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

Job Description

This role will be responsible for leading a team of approximately 8 software engineers who range from senior to junior level. We are looking for someone who is a very strong software engineer who may have some previous experience of leading small agile software engineering teams.

As a Software Engineering Manager you wont just be staring at code; youll be building the team that writes it. You are responsible for the growth productivity and happiness of your engineers. Your goal is to bridge the gap between business objectives and technical execution ensuring we ship high-quality products while maintaining a healthy sustainable engineering culture.

Key Responsibilities

• People Leadership: Mentor and coach engineers at all levels. Youll handle performance reviews career mapping and one-on-ones to ensure everyone has a clear path to promotion.

• Delivery & Execution: Own the how and when. Youll work with Product Managers to define roadmaps manage sprints and remove any blockers slowing the team down.

• Technical Strategy: While you might not be pushing code daily youll participate in design reviews and ensure the team is making scalable architectural decisions.

• Recruiting: Actively participate in hiring to scale the team with diverse high-caliber talent.

• Culture Building: Foster an environment of psychological safety continuous learning and blame-free post-mortems.

What Were Looking For

• Emotional Intelligence: You can navigate difficult conversations with empathy and clarity.

• Technical Depth: You can still talk shop and understand the implications of $O(n)$ complexity or microservices architecture without needing a refresher.

• Operational Excellence: Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies and a data-driven approach to measuring team velocity and health.

Basic Requirements

Required:

• Must be able to attain Non-Police-Personnel-Vetting Level 3 (NPPV3) - which includes the need for a minimum of 3 years UK residency

• A relevant university qualification such as a BSc Computing Science or BSc Software Engineering

• 7 years of experience in commercial software engineering

• Full stack experience across a variety of technologies including front-end and back-end

• A strong understanding of software design patterns used for architecting and developing high performing scalable software solutions

• Previous experience architecting and developing server/gateway applications and client/server model communications

• Previous experience of architecting and developing mobile smartphone applications

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

Desirable:

• Experience of leading and managing software development teams

• Previous working experience in an Agile environment (Scrum)

• Java and/or Kotlin

• Struts and Sprint Boot

• REST APIs

• SQL (preferably MSSQL)

• Vue Angular React HTML/CSS

• AndroidX Compose Room

• Gradle

• CI/CD using GitHub Actions

• XML processing XSLT Saxon JAXB

Nice to have:

• Distributed event streaming platforms (Azure Event Hubs Apache Kafka)

• OAuth 2.0 OpenID Connect JWT

• Google Web Toolkit (GWT) Kotlin multiplatform
  
  

In return for your expertise well support you in this new challenge with coaching & development every step of the way. Also to reward your hard work youll get:

• Competitive salary and bonus schemes

• Two weeks additional pay per year (holiday bonus)

• 25 days holiday entitlement bank holidays

• Attractive defined contribution pension scheme

• Private medical insurance

• Employee stock purchase plan

• Flexible working options

• Life assurance

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Career development support and wide ranging learning opportunities

• Employee health and wellbeing support EAP wellbeing guidance etc

• Carbon neutral initiatives/goals

• Corporate social responsibility initiatives including support for volunteering days

• Well known companies discount scheme

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Relocation Provided

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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 youd like to join our team but feel that you dont quite meet all of the preferred skills wed still love to hear why you think youd be a great addition to our team.