Staff/Principal Full Stack Software Engineer

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 ...

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.

You are a Staff Full Stack Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications. You have deep interest in backend technologies. You are also familiar with frontend and mobile technologies and challenges. You are excited about the care, feeding and growth of a scalable cloud-based systems and...

Work Location: This role is based out of our Boston 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.
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

8+ years of experience in full stack software engineering
A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field (or equivalent
Experience building complex and impactful software in a team environment
Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems
You write beautiful, simple, maintainable code for backend microservices
Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams
Backend service experience in managed languages such as Go, Java, Scala
Frontend experience in Javascript + Typescript, React,
Strong experience with database, especially SQL 
Interest in helping to set the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple global locations