Staff Software Engineer

Axon•Atlanta, GA

9d•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 The Real Time Operations division at Axon is on a mission to provide the best-in-class situational awareness software to emergency responders in order to make them more effective and efficient in managing life-and-death situations. As a staff software engineer, you will be joining our team focused on building a fast and performant real-time crime center application that can ingest real-time signals from devices at scale, and provide emergency responders with the features and functionality to focus on the most pertinent information for dealing with the situation at hand. You will take the lead for designing and building critical systems across the cloud, web, and mobile to direct first responders to where they are most needed. You will join forces with device, other back-end, and front end teams to efficiently source realtime geo-located data from devices in the field such as patrol cars, body cameras and drones. You will join forces with communications teams responsible for streaming realtime media feeds and other signals from devices. You will join forces with application, customer and third party teams to ensure our users have other data they need to make tough decisions. You will write code that efficiently brings these data feeds together on a single map, allowing our users to make better decisions, saving lives. In this role, you will be reporting to director of engineering for the Real Time Operations division. As a technical leader, you will be advising the division on the right long-term technical initiatives to invest in, and act as a force multiplier on the team, working intimately with other senior engineers in the division to guide and grow them. You are a great collaborator and coach, and will mentor our next set of senior engineers. Your customer empathy and eagerness to understand users and their problems allows you to balance competing business and engineering priorities, helping to steer the team to achieve the best outcomes.

Requirements

8+ years of professional software development experience
Proven track record of designing and building complex, highly-available cloud systems
Experience with different types of data storage systems, such as relational and NoSQL databases
Mentored and grown other senior software engineers
Can walk in the customer’s shoes, and collaborate with product and design on designing features that delight customers

Nice To Haves

Experience with stream processing (Message brokers)
Experience with web frontend technologies like React, Redux and Typescript
Experience working with native mobile apps iOS or Android
Experience with Maps/Cartography

Responsibilities

Be the technical leader of our device state/notifications, partner integration and mobile apps teams for Real Time Operations division
Lead designs of major software components, systems, and features.
Review key architecture designs from senior engineers across other teams, and enforce a high bar on availability, performance, and usability in this mission-critical space
Set a high technical bar for the team by writing well-tested, maintainable code and leading code and technical design reviews
Join forces with other senior engineers on assessing the top engineering risks and guiding the organization on which strategic engineering initiatives to invest in
Mentor and coach other senior engineers and grow the next set of technical leaders for the organization
Work across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to drive and deliver on our product roadmap
Deliver groundbreaking experiences that help improve safety and efficiency of our users globally.