Staff Software Engineer Hybrid

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

At Axon were on a mission to Protect Life. Were explorers pursuing societys most critical safety and justice issues with our ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Like our products we work better together. We connect with candor and care seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers communities and each other.

Life at Axon is fastpaced challenging and meaningful. Here youll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

As a Staff Software Engineer you will make a direct impact towards our missions of protecting life capturing truth and never missing a critical moment. You will build largescale software applications. You will collaborate with other staff senior engineers and teams to shape and drive the technical direction for the organization and products. Your strong system design skills will aid you in taking a holistic approach to ensuring our products are bulletproof and faulttolerant while meeting demanding interactivity and responsiveness requirements. Your customerobsession leads you to join forces with product and design to imagine and deliver innovative solutions to key customer problems.

The team you will work on is developing a new 0 to 1 product for Axon.

Working closely with senior engineers across teams to review their designs and steer them toward more reliable and sustainable outcomes makes you a force multiplier for your team and the teams around you. You are a great collaborator and coach and will mentor our next set of engineering leaders. You foster a friendly open introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape unnecessary rituals bureaucracy and politics. You embody our company value of Join Forces and have zero tolerance for people not willing to collaborate.

As a senior technical contributor you have a passion for technology and keep abreast of the latest trends frameworks and tools. As a technical leader you advise our Vice President of Software Engineering on technical strategy for the organization while balancing our business and engineering priorities to help determine the right longterm initiatives and investments.

Come work in an exciting environment where you use your passion experience and analytical skills to help bring new solutions to public safety and leave a positive impact on the world!

What Youll Do

Location: Boston or Seattle
Reports to: VP Software Engineering
Direct Reports: None

• Impact the development and design for launching a new 0 to 1 product for Axon
• Set a high technical bar for the team through deep technical insights and architecture design reviews
• Mentor engineers
• Work across teams with Product Design and Engineering to solve some of our biggest technical challenges within our stack for our customers
• Improve our Engineering process including longterm thinking sprint planning and standups
• Build services that adhere to our high bar on availability performance and security in this missioncritical space
• Work with the latest open source technologies

What You Bring

• 10 years of experience in software engineering
• Experience building and scaling complex and impactful software products in a team environment
• Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
• Backend cloud experience in managed languages such as Java Scala Go C# or similar
• Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases such as SQL Server and Cassandra
• Experience designing and delivering highavailability scalable cloudbased systems
• You write beautiful simple maintainable code for backend microservices
• You have a track record of setting the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple global locations

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical Dental Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company meaning compensation is made up of base pay bonus and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 171000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 273600 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors such as: level function training transferable skills work experience business needs geographic market and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit meet every single requirement Thats ok. At Axon we Aim Far. We think big with a longterm view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt align perfectly with every qualification listed here we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as nor should it be construed as exhaustive of all duties responsibilities skills efforts or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the wellbeing and safety of its employees as well as Axons impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental health and safety regulations policies and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice advances equity values diversity and fosters inclusion. Were committed to hiring the best talent regardless of race creed color ancestry religion sex (including pregnancy) national origin sexual orientation age citizenship status marital status disability gender identity genetic information veteran status or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws regulations and ordinances and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process please email. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.