Senior Software Engineer, Vehicle Intelligence

Axon•Seattle, WA

3d•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. The Team Axon Vehicle Intelligence represents the next evolution in public safety technology—offering unified real-time awareness, AI-powered search, and scalable integrations that empower agencies with advanced vehicle intelligence capabilities. Our cutting-edge platform enhances video streams with vehicle search, alerts, and analytics—seamlessly integrated into both real-time and investigative workflows. Built on a growing ecosystem that includes Axon Fleet and Fusus-connected cameras—and expanding with Axon Outpost and Lightpost, our flexible ALPR and vehicle detection cameras—this solution enables agencies to track and identify vehicles with speed and precision. Your Impact As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape our products. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You love working with the latest open source technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be bullet-proof. The team you will work on is developing a new 0 to 1 product for Axon. Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to intuit innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you. Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
6+ years of professional software development experience
Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems
Backend service experience in multiple, managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
Experience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores

Nice To Haves

Experience with Java, Golang or Scala programming is a plus

Responsibilities

Impact the development and design for launching a new 0 to 1 product for Axon
Lead engineering architecture design reviews
Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
Mentoring engineers
Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions that delight our customers
Improve our Engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups
Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space
Working with the latest open source technologies