About the role
<div class="content-intro"><h4><strong>Join Axon and be a Force for Good.</strong></h4> <p>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.<br><br>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.</p></div><p><strong>Your Impact</strong></p> <p>You are a Staff Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications and distributed systems. In this role, you will help shape the technical direction for DEMS, a mission-critical product area where reliability, security, and usability matter deeply. You will collaborate with other senior and staff engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and designers to solve complex customer problems and build durable systems that scale.<br><br>Your strong system design skills allow you to take a holistic view of architecture, reliability, and developer productivity. You raise the bar not just through your own contributions, but by reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, improving technical decision-making, and helping teams align around pragmatic, high-quality solutions.<br><br>As a senior technical contributor, you are energized by solving hard problems, reducing ambiguity, and building systems that perform under real-world demands. As a technical leader, you partner with engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy while balancing business priorities, roadmap commitments, and engineering health.<br><br>Come work in an environment where your experience, judgment, and technical leadership will directly contribute to products that help deliver better outcomes in public safety.</p> <p><strong>What You'll Do</strong></p> <p><strong>Work Location: </strong>This role is based out of our London 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.</p> <ul> <li>Set a high technical bar through architecture leadership, deep technical insight, and thoughtful design reviews.</li> <li>Drive technical direction across one or more DEMS domains, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and resilient.</li> <