Senior Software Engineer (Java + Cloud-Native)

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. Our critical communications, video security and command center technologies support public safety agencies and enterprises alike, enabling the coordination that’s critical for safer communities, safer schools, safer hospitals and safer businesses. Connect with a career that matters, and help us build a safer future.

Department Overview

Rave Mobile Safety, a Motorola Solutions company, makes complex emergency response simple by building easy to use, trustworthy critical communication and collaboration software. Rave’s platform helps 9-1-1 call centers serve their communities, schools create a safe learning environment, and corporations protect their global workforce by helping them prepare better, respond faster, and communicate effectively during emergencies. Rave’s solutions were utilized in 40 million incidents representing billions of individual communications in 2022 alone. This is your opportunity to become a key contributor in a rapid growth SaaS company while representing a product suite that makes an impact on people’s lives.

Job Description

Rave Mobile Safety is building and evolving the messaging platform that powers over a billion critical alerts each year across SMS, email, push notifications, and voice. This work sits at the center of life-safety communications—where reliability, scale, and speed matter every day.

We’re investing heavily in cloud-native architecture, microservices, and modern engineering practices. If you enjoy building resilient distributed systems, shipping to production frequently, and raising the bar on platform reliability and developer velocity, this role is for you.

What you’ll be doing

• Build and ship cloud-native backend services in Java using Spring Boot, focused on high-throughput messaging and workflow.

• Design and implement microservices and APIs that are secure, observable, and built to scale in a multi-tenant SaaS environment.

• Partner with Engineering, Product, QA, and Operations to deliver features that are reliable, measurable, and production-ready.

• Improve platform resilience and performance through smart architecture, instrumentation, load testing, and pragmatic optimization.

• Build modern delivery workflows: CI/CD, automated testing, and safe deployments (blue/green, canary, progressive delivery).

• Contribute to platform modernization (incremental evolution, not “big bang” rewrites), with an emphasis on maintainability and operational excellence.

• Support the integration and operationalization of emerging technologies and services within our production environment.

Tech environment (what we’re building toward)

• Backend: Java (modern versions), Spring Boot, API-first services (REST; gRPC where useful)

• Architecture: microservices, event-driven patterns, multi-tenant SaaS

• Cloud & runtime: AWS preferred; Docker + Kubernetes (cloud-native containers)

• Data: SQL databases (MySQL preferred) and strong data modeling practices

• Frontend: Experience with modern frameworks such as Vue, React, or Angular.

• Operational excellence: monitoring, logging, tracing, alerting, incident response readiness

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Requirements

• US Citizen with the ability to obtain necessary security clearance as required by government contract.

• 5+ years building and operating highly scalable, highly available software systems.

• Strong proficiency in Java and modern backend development (Spring Boot and common enterprise patterns).

• Experience designing and implementing APIs and distributed system integrations.

• Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS preferred; Azure/GCP welcome).

• Hands-on experience with containers (Docker) and Kubernetes (or equivalent orchestration experience).

• Strong fun