Sr Software Engineer II, VR

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

As a senior engineer on the team, you will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape this product. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You love working with the latest open source technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be bullet-proof.

Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to intuit innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you.

Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve.

What You’ll Do

Reports to: Senior Engineering Manager, VR
Direct Reports: None

• Lead engineering architecture design reviews
• Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
• Mentoring engineers
• Working 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
• Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space
• Working with the latest open source technologies

What You Bring

• 8+ years of experience in software engineering
• Experience building complex and impactful software in a team environment
• Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
• Backend service experience in managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
• Strong experience with database, especially SQL and Cassandra
• Experience building out cloud architecture in Azure and/or AWS
• Azure to AWS migration experience
• Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems
• You write beautiful, simple, maintainable code for backend microservices
• Interest in helping to set the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple US locations

Benefits

• Award-winning office and working environment with the newest technology
• Competitive salary and a comprehensive benefit package
• Discretionary PTO
• Fun team activities and outings
• Flexible working hours - partial remote work is encouraged
• Options for training in the US
• Opportunities to ride along with local law enforcement
  
  

The Pay: Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 162,825 in the lowest geographic market and USD 260,520 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits.

Location: This role is based out of our Scottsdale, AZ 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.

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