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. 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 large-scale 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 fault-tolerant, while meeting demanding interactivity and responsiveness requirements. Your customer-obsession 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 long-term 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!
Responsibilities
- 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 long-term thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups
- Build services that adhere to our high bar on availability, performance, and security in this mission-critical space
- Work with the latest open source technologies
Requirements
- 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 high-availability, scalable cloud-based 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
- 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
- Snacks in our offices
