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.
Melbourne Design Centre is part of Motorola Solutions' Software Enterprise organisation with a focus on streamlining processes and increasing operational efficiency with a highly configurable and integrated mobility solution designed for responders in the field.
In this Software Engineering role you will be contributing to developing our public safety platform application on Android and across platforms using mobile technologies such as Kotlin and Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP).
Collaborate closely with your team to develop, maintain and support core platforms and applications
Build quality in by integrating early, participate in code reviews and by ensuring there high test coverage
Proactively reduce technical debt by aggressively refactoring code
Develop highly secure applications by following defense in depth principles
Architect software systems across multiple technologies and platforms
Ensure code is extensible and maintainable by following leading architectural principles and patterns
Automate everything, contribute to tooling and manage CI/CD pipelines
Actively monitor services, respond to incidents and contribute to post incident reviews
Contribute to a continuous learning culture by participating in training & workshops, bringing ideas to the table and creating learning opportunities
Help drive continuous improvement by actively identifying improvements, participating in retrospectives and contributing to key metrics
Focus on customers by asking the right questions, solving the right problem and designing great experiences
Explore various solutions and share findings with the team
Help drive engineering best practices and initiatives
Android standards and ecosystem
Android SDK (e.g. writing efficient layouts, dealing with application lifecycle)
Kotlin for Android
Java and the JVM, additional language experience is a bonus
Application of OOP concepts and design patterns
Reactive programming paradigm
Functional programming
Good working knowledge of software architectures
HTTP and RESTful designs
Automated Unit, Integration, UI, snapshot and Performance testing
CI/CD pipelines & Configuration Management
Git and associated tools, platforms and practices
OpenAPI and/or Swagger
Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Bonus if you have experience with:
Cloud platforms such as AWS, GCP and Azure
Local and remote data persistence ( SQLDelight, Room, NoSQL )
Advanced testing techniques ( TDD, BDD, ATDD )
iOS development with Swift, with SwiftUI or UIKit
5+ years of professional Software Engineering experience
4+ years specialising in native Android development with strong proficiency in Kotlin
Proven track record of architecting and shipping complex apps to production
Ability to work well and collaboratively in an Agile environment
Open to failure, to ask questions and grow and learn from mistakes
Ability to research, POC and learn new technologies rapidly
Creative, with the ability to generate and evaluate multiple solutions
Pragmatic, understanding the impact of new technology
Ability to evaluate and mitigate risks
Bonus if you have:
Android standards and ecosystem
Java and the JVM, additional language experience is a bonus
Android SDK (e.g. writing efficient layouts, dealing with application lifecycle)
Kotlin and Java for Android
Application of OOP concepts and design patterns
Good working knowledge of software architectures
HTTP and RESTful designs
Automated Unit, Integration, UI and Performance testing
CI/CD pipelines & Configuration Management
Git and associated tools, platforms and practices
OpenAPI and/or Swagger
Agile methodologies (Scrum, Kanban)
Bonus if you have experience with:
Ability to work well and collaboratively in an Agile environment
Open to failure, to ask questions and grow and learn from mistakes
Ability to research, POC and learn new technologies rapidly
Creative, with the ability to generate and evaluate multiple solutions
Pragmatic, understanding the impact of new technology
Ability to evaluate and mitigate risks
None
None
Experienced
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.
