Application Software Engineer

Location: Cambridge, UK (ZUK140)

Time Type: Full time

Job Description

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

CRFS, a Motorola Solutions company, is a global pioneer in advanced radio frequency (RF) technology, specializing in cutting-edge spectrum monitoring, geolocation, and electronic warfare solutions. Headquartered in Cambridge, UK, we design and build high-performance hardware and software—such as our industry-leading RFeye ecosystem—that empowers military forces, national security agencies, and spectrum regulators to detect, analyze, and exploit RF signals in the world's most complex environments. When you join our team, you’re directly contributing to the technologies that ensure spectrum dominance, protect critical infrastructure, and safeguard global communications.
We are looking for an Application Engineer to join our team.
You will be creating and developing applications and application programming interfaces (APIs) on Window and Linux operating systems that are used to communicate with embedded systems processing large quantities of data before returning it to the user.

Job Description

• All aspects of the full software development life cycle, including requirements analysis, design, development, testing, documentation and training.
• Programming to deliver robust, clean, high quality software applications.
• Creation of functional designs and specifications.
• Rigorous approach to testing, including informal regression testing and writing unit tests.
• Support the creation of user documentation by technical authors.
• Reviewing code written by other programmers and providing constructive feedback to ensure it aligns with the required quality standards.

Basic Requirements

• Experience of programming and developing RESTful APIs for client-server architecture.
• Strong architectural skills and knowledge of C# and object orientated programming (OOP).
• Good understanding of software design patterns and data structures.
• Good understanding of the Agile Development cycle.
• Good analytical and problem-solving ability.
• Attention to detail and a passion for producing high quality software with clean code.
• Experience of maintaining, extending and amending existing software as well as creating new applications.
• Capable of working both in a team and independently.
• Excellent communication skills.

Desirable

• A science or engineering degree in Computer Science or Electronics.
• Experience with writing algorithms.
• Experience in UI frameworks such as WPF.
• Experience with web application frameworks such as ASP.NET.
• Experience with Linux shell scripting.

In return for your expertise, we’ll support you in this new challenge with coaching and development every step of the way. Also, to reward your hard work you’ll 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.
• Employee stock purchase plan.
• 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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Travel Requirements

None

Relocation Provided

None

Position Type

Experienced

Referral Payment Plan

No

Company

Motorola Solutions UK Limited

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.