Staff Software Engineer, Justice

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 Justice and Corrections team is building new solutions to improve efficiency, accountability, and equity in the Criminal Justice and Corrections systems to create better outcomes for everyone involved. As a Staff Software Engineer on the Justice Corrections team at Axon, you’ll help prosecutors, public defenders and corrections officers better manage enormous workloads. You will help ease the pain of both victims and the accused by ensuring justice is administered fairly and efficiently. And you will create tremendous benefits to communities as a whole by improving these critical systems for society.

Using your experience building large-scale cloud services, you will collaborate with other Staff and Senior Engineers to shape and drive the technical direction for the team. Your strong system design skills will aid you in taking a holistic approach to ensuring our products meet high standards including fault-tolerance, scalability, performance, etc. Your customer-obsession leads you to join forces with product and design to imagine and deliver innovative solutions to key customer problems.

You have a high bar on standards of excellence, and can effectively steer teams to make technical decisions that deliver highly reliable systems. You are a force multiplier, and can coach and mentor the 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 senior leadership team (Director/Senior Director/Vice President) on technical strategy for the wider department, while balancing our business and engineering priorities to help determine the right long-term initiatives and investments.

What You’ll Do

Work Location: This role is based out of our Seattle office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Lead by example, drive major projects from design to production

Set a high bar on standards of excellence, provide deep technical insights during architecture design reviews

Effectively mentor and grow engineers into the Senior and Staff levels

Obsess over customers, works backward from customers to build the right solutions

Build services that adhere to high bar on availability, performance, and security in mission-critical space

Maintain curiosity and desire to stay up to speed on latest technologies and frameworks

What You Bring

12+ years of experience in software engineering

Experience driving technical strategy with impact across multiple teams

Expertise in building large scale cloud services, including deep knowledge with different database technologies such as SQL, NoSQL, and queuing systems

Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems

Backend cloud experience in managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar

Frontend experience with JavaScript, Typescript, React, Angular or similar technologies.

Experience working with containerization and orchestration technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, etc)

Proven ability to work side by side with product managers and other engineers to create a technical backlog to build product experiences that customers love

A passion for quality design, code, tools and architectures

Benefits that Benefit You

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

And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

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