Senior Software Engineer II

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 

Axon Records is a cloud-based records management system that modernizes how law enforcement agencies capture, manage, and access data. It streamlines report writing and approval workflows with structured data entry, real-time collaboration, and intelligent automation. Our products north star is to make an impact on the world by reducing the amount of time officers spend at their desks writing reports and increase the amount of time officers spend out in their communities helping the public.

The Incident Response Squad (IRS) is a full stack team at the heart of Axon Records. Their core area of ownership is both the front end of the report writing experience where officers enter data about their day to day work as well as a large portion of the data ingestion pipeline to reliably get that data into our system. For many of our user, the features that the Incident Squad owns are where they spend most of their time when using Axon Records and internally these features are the foundation on which many of our other modules are built on top of. In addition to owning this report writing interface Incident Squad also owns features related to logging officer activity, printing, 3rd party integrations, and warrants management tools.

The team regularly deals with unique and interesting challenges such as safely managing concurrent edits to documents by multiple users, balancing speed vs safety when it comes to data ingestion, rendering reports based on complex schemas which are fully customizable by each agency, and providing largely non-technical users an easy way to do their day to day work.

From a technical perspective Incident Squad owns a large portion of our React front-end, as well as a good chunk of a TypeScript/GraphQL (Apollo) API, and multiple Go micro-services. The team also regularly uses other technologies and languages such as SQL, Kafka, Redis, Python, and occasionally Java.

An ideal candidate would be a full stack developer who leans more toward the backend or a backend engineer who wants to learn a little more about front end code. In addition to writing code, the Sr Software Engineer ll is a role in which engineers are expected to help define a technical vision for the team as well as lead large, cross team projects. Our team is looking for someone who wants to have a large impact both inside and outside of their team, is comfortable with cross team collaboration, and wants to work closely with staff engineers to do big, impactful things and see their work define the future of Axon Records.

Join us in making a meaningful impact on the lives of law enforcement and the communities they serve, as part of a passionate and mission-driven group dedicated to innovation and excellence.

What You’ll Do 

Location:  Work from home as much as you want, live nearby our awesome US R&D Hub in Seattle, so you can easily collab in-person when it’s helpful and be an active part of our vibrant Axon culture
Reports to: Sr Manager, Software Engineering

• Design and develop scalable, secure, high-performance software in this mission-critical space
• Lead technical projects from concept to launch, ensuring solution meets business and technical requirements
• Collaborate across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create solutions that delight our customers
• Provide technical leadership and mentorship for engineers across the group
• Help to define a technical vision both within our team and the greater organization
• Partner with Engineering Managers, Directors, and Staff Engineers to define a strategic technical vision and direction for the group
• Lead engineering architecture design reviews and provide feedback to other engineers through channels like PR reviews
• Write and review design documents, library proposals, and technical vision documents.
• Define and manage roadmaps for the technical backlog
• Continuously evaluate and improve engineering processes across the group to enhance efficiency and effectiveness

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of pr