Senior Backend Java Engineer (Chicago Hybrid)

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

Responsibilities

• Architectural Ownership: Propose and facilitate technical discussions to arrive at agreed-upon architectural plans for high-throughput device provisioning zero-touch enrollment and lifecycle management services.

• Contract Definition & Coordination: Own the APIs for the Device Management Domain coordinating with external hardware and consumer teams to ensure seamless integration rapid registration and data integrity.

• Feature Grooming & Delegation: Groom technical stories from Product Management requirements and break down complex tasks for the team to enable rapid parallel development.

• Database & Storage Leadership: Lead the implementation optimization and scaling of relational data layers using AlloyDB (and PostgreSQL) ensuring data integrity high availability and efficient indexing for millions of device records.

• Advanced AI Engineering: Architect and implement advanced prompt engineering workflows utilizing Anthropic Claude to automate configuration generation analyze complex device logs and power conversational provisioning assistants.

• Quality Review & Mentorship: Conduct thorough code reviews serving as a trusted source to catch edge cases security gaps and performance bottlenecks while actively mentoring junior and mid-level engineers.

• Pipeline & Tooling Transformation: Actively contribute to development pipeline improvements (e.g. automated guardrails RAG systems and AI coding assistants) to significantly cut down PR cycle times.

Requirements

• Experience & Impact: Bachelors degree plus 5 years of progressive technical experience demonstrating successful ownership of complex distributed features and a track record of mentoring technical peers.

• Database Mastery: Practical deep experience managing and optimizing Postgres-based databases (ideally GCP AlloyDB) for high-concurrency write/read profiles.

• GCP Proficiency: Proven ability to deploy manage and scale microservices on GCP (GKE Cloud Run Cloud Storage and database management).

• API/Contract Ownership: Extensive experience designing robust service contracts and managing dependencies between Python and Java microservices.

• Claude & Prompt Engineering: Practical experience leveraging Anthropic Claude (or similar advanced LLMs) for systemic prompt design structured data extraction and log parsing.

• System Integrity: Deep understanding of scale challenges fault-tolerant design and the ability to anticipate and address stress points within high-availability provisioning architectures.

Target Base Salary Range: $130000 USD - $150000 USD

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.

Note: Candidate must be in the Chicago office 2 days per week.

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Basic Requirements

• Bachelors Degree with 5 engineering experience

• AND 4 years of Java experience

• Must be a U.S. citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.

Travel Requirements

Relocation Provided

Position Type

Referral Payment Plan

Our :

• Incentive Bonus Plans

• Medical Dental Visionbenefits

• 401K with Company Match

• 10 Paid Holidays

• GenerousPaidTime Off Packages

• Employee Stock Purchase Plan

• PaidParental & Family Leave

• and more!

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.

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