100524 - Senior Software Engineer II

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.

• 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

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 10+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems
• Full-stack development experience in languages such as Go, Scala, Java, TypeScript, JavaScript, C# or similar
• Experience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores
• Experience with Realtime streaming event log or messaging technologies, such as Kafka or ActiveMQ
• (Bonus) Experience with a front end framework such as React
• (Bonus) Experience with mobile development
• (Bonus) Experience with an automated testing framework like Selenium, Puppeteer, or Playwright or automated API testing

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

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