HRIS Software Engineering Lead

Axon•Scottsdale, AZ

4d•Hybrid

About The Position

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. At Axon, we’re on a mission to Protect Life. We’re explorers, pursuing society’s 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 fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter. Our People Systems team is expanding beyond Workday configuration into custom application development. Over the past year we built a performance review app, req editing workflows, and severance automation tools, and more are in progress. We need a senior engineer to lead the technical work on these products while staying hands-on as a contributor. This is a player-coach role. You will write code alongside the team, own our engineering standards, and bring the technical maturity to help us build software that scales. You will also own Workday security role architecture and provide input on security across our custom applications. Prior HRIS experience is not required; a strong software engineering background with an interest in the people technology space is.

Requirements

Serving as technical lead on a software project: architecture decisions, code reviews, and influencing how a team works
Demonstrated experience building and maintaining software in production environments
Proficiency in JavaScript or Python, with sufficient depth to contribute to and extend a production codebase
Experience working in a structured SDLC: version control, CI/CD, code review practices
Working knowledge of access governance or security role administration — RBAC, least-privilege principles, access certification
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
Comfortable operating with ambiguity; this team is actively building its engineering practice

Nice To Haves

Workday experience — security roles, EIB, Studio, Extend, or Prism
Experience building with LLM APIs or working on AI applications
Sigma or Power BI
SOX compliance experience

Responsibilities

Serve as technical lead on custom application development: architecture decisions, code review standards, and engineering best practices
Contribute hands-on development and delivery across the People Systems app suite
Own Workday security role architecture and access governance (SOX-compliant)
Build and maintain integrations between Workday and downstream systems, including our AI application layer and carrier feeds
Manage Azure and application environments: test/prod, integration monitoring, release readiness
Partner with People Ops business users to translate requirements into technical solutions
Collaborate with IT Security on access governance and with Audit and Compliance on a quarterly basis