Senior/Staff Frontend Platform Engineer

Motorola Solutions • Vancouver, BC

9d • Hybrid

About The Position

At Motorola Solutions, we are a global community dedicated to keeping people safer everywhere by building and connecting technologies that protect people, property, and places. Our solutions foster collaboration for safer communities, schools, hospitals, businesses, and nations. The Frontend Platform Engineering department focuses on building scalable, high-performance infrastructure for modular, AI-driven features. This involves creating robust middle-layer services, secure integration points, and seamless pipelines for developers and end-users, with an emphasis on innovation, quality, and speed. The team architects micro-frontend systems, optimizes cloud deployments, and leverages AI to streamline development workflows, driving cross-functional initiatives and maintaining enterprise-grade standards. As a Senior Frontend Platform Engineer, you will be a primary technical driver for the next-generation Frontend Platform, architecting the 'engine' for decoupled features to be registered, filtered, and executed at scale. You will be responsible for the end-to-end success of Frontend Platform initiatives, from designing service contracts for module filtering based on permissions to building automated pipelines for global feature overrides. This is primarily an Individual Contributor (IC) role, where you will own the frontend infrastructure and set quality and performance standards in an AI-native development environment.

Requirements

• 5+ years of progressive technical experience with a clear track record of successfully shipping and maintaining complex, distributed frontend systems.
• Proficiency in at least one modern Frontend JS framework (e.g., React, Angular, Vue, Stencil, or Svelte).
• Proven ability to communicate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and successfully persuade others to adopt specific engineering strategies or architectural shifts.
• Expert-level proficiency in Node.js and TypeScript for building robust, service-oriented layers that support frontend orchestration.
• Practical experience with single-spa or similar Micro-Frontend frameworks. You should have a deep understanding of the challenges surrounding runtime integration, asset discovery, and versioning.
• Advanced experience with modern testing frameworks and methodologies. You must be proficient in writing and maintaining Unit, E2E, and Contract tests to support a continuous deployment model.
• Experience deploying and managing services on major cloud platforms (GCP, AWS, or Azure) and architecting deployment automation using GitHub Workflows.
• Hands-on experience using NoSQL (MongoDB) to manage state, configuration manifests, and service metadata.
• A deep understanding of scale challenges in real-time platforms. You must be able to anticipate stress points in systems handling thousands of concurrent metadata updates.
• Advanced proficiency in leveraging AI methodologies to accelerate development. You don't just use AI to write code; you use it to analyze architecture, generate tests, and optimize the delivery pipeline.
• An uncompromising bar for craftsmanship. You understand that in an AI-driven world, the ability to audit, refactor, and harden code is the most critical skill an engineer possesses.
• 5+ years of software engineer experience
• 3+ years of technical leadership experience
• 3+ years of TypeScript experience

Nice To Haves

• Practical experience with Docker and Kubernetes (K8s) for containerizing and orchestrating frontend middle-layer services.
• Experience with real-time communication protocols (WebSockets, gRPC) for high-frequency data updates.
• Familiarity with video streaming over WebRTC and HLS, as well as handling real-time audio streams.

Responsibilities

• Platform Architecture Ownership: Propose and lead technical designs for our Module Manifest and Registry services, ensuring that the "middle layer" correctly orchestrates feature delivery across multiple disparate applications.
• Technical Advocacy & Influence: Present and justify architectural decisions and engineering roadmaps to cross-functional stakeholders. You must be able to articulate the "why" behind platform decisions and convince leadership of the long-term value of our technical direction.
• Security & Handshake Logic: Own the frontend integration with Authorization and Identity services. You will design the handshakes that ensure the platform securely filters and renders modules based on dynamic role-based payloads.
• Module Lifecycle & Governance: Lead the development of the “Publish and Promote” services. You will build the logic that enables other teams to independently release, hotfix, and A/B test features without monolithic deployment dependencies.
• Middle Layer Implementation: Drive the implementation of our Node.js and TypeScript services that manage configuration state and metadata, utilizing MongoDB for persistent manifest storage.
• High-Velocity Testing Rigor: Maintain our standard for high-quality, high-speed delivery by implementing and advocating for a comprehensive testing strategy, including Unit, End-to-End (E2E), and Contract testing to ensure platform stability.
• Pipeline & Cloud Integration: Design and maintain automated CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Workflows to manage the lifecycle of micro-frontends across cloud environments (GCP, AWS, or Azure).
• High-Intent Data Visualization: Lead the development of high-performance UI patterns for visualizing AI-generated metadata, ensuring that complex Rationale and Scene Intelligence logic are rendered with sub-300ms latency.
• Quality Guardianship & AI Auditing: Perform rigorous code reviews of both human and AI-generated code. You will serve as the final filter to ensure that AI-assisted workflows maintain enterprise-grade security, performance, and accessibility standards.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees