Software Engineer II

Axon•Washington, DC

8h•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. Your Impact Today, public safety officers spend up to 2/3 of their time on the job filling out paperwork (sometimes with paper, sometimes with floppy disks). Not only is this tedious for officers, but the never-ending pile of paperwork reduces the amount of time they can spend out in the field, protecting their communities. Axon Records cuts down on paperwork so that officers can spend more time prioritizing the safety of our communities. As a Software Engineer II on the 3P Search team, you will build and operate the critical systems that connect Axon Records to external law enforcement databases and third-party partners. This team owns two high-responsibility domains: NCIC & External Search – designing compliant, secure, and reliable backend systems that query NCIC and other state and federal databases, and supporting the workflows that initiate and monitor those searches. Third-Party APIs – exposing first-party Axon Records data to CAD vendors and internal Axon systems through stable, well-versioned, partner-facing APIs. You’ll work on backend systems that sit at key integration boundaries - where correctness, reliability, auditability, and operational rigor matter deeply. While this is a backend-focused full stack role, you’ll also contribute to user-facing workflows and internal tooling that enable search initiation, monitoring, and troubleshooting. This role requires strong ownership: you’ll design services, reason about failure modes, operate systems in production, and continuously improve reliability in environments with real-world external dependencies. 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

3+ years of professional software engineering experience
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience)
Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services
Experience designing and operating distributed systems in cloud environments
Solid understanding of APIs, service-oriented architectures, and versioned contracts
Experience integrating with external systems or third-party consumers
Ability to reason about failure modes, data consistency, and reliability tradeoffs
Comfort working at system boundaries where security, compliance, and correctness are non-negotiable
Strong collaboration and communication skills across engineering and partner teams

Nice To Haves

Experience working with law enforcement, public safety, or regulated systems
Experience building or operating highly reliable, audit-heavy systems
Experience designing public or partner-facing APIs with long-term stability requirements
Exposure to identity, authentication, and authorization systems
Experience contributing to operational tooling or internal workflow UIs
Familiarity with CAD systems or other public safety integrations

Responsibilities

Design and implement backend services supporting NCIC search and other external database integrations
Build and evolve partner-facing Records APIs, including data modeling, authentication/authorization, and versioned contracts
Ensure correctness, compliance, and auditability when handling sensitive external queries
Design systems that gracefully handle failures, retries, partial responses, and downstream outages
Improve observability, monitoring, and operational tooling for external search workflows
Contribute to supporting UI components where needed to enable operational visibility and workflow execution
Participate in on-call rotations and drive continuous improvements to system resilience and reliability
Collaborate with product, compliance, and partner teams to safely evolve integration capabilities