Your Impact

As a senior engineer on the team, you will be intimately involved in architecture decisions that shape this product. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You bias all decisions towards consistent and trustworthy customer experiences, and you look to do things fast, reliably, and with scaling in mind.

You operate in an AI-first engineering environment, where you leverage advanced AI systems to inform design decisions, accelerate development, and improve system reliability. You are expected to drive the adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across teams, ensuring scalable and efficient development workflows.

You will work closely with product managers and designers to ensure we build the right solution for our customers, while also mentoring engineers in system design, user experience development and AI-first development practices.

What You'll Do

Location: Atlanta, Boston, Scottsdale, Seattle

Direct Reports: None

• Lead engineering architecture design reviews, incorporating AI-driven insights and system modelling
• Set a high technical bar through code and architecture reviews, including evaluation of AI-generated code and patterns
• Mentor engineers on scalable system design and AI-first development practices
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools and workflows across the engineering organization
• Work across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions
• Improve engineering processes by embedding automation, AI tooling, and intelligent workflows into planning and execution
• Build services that adhere to high standards of availability and latency in a mission-critical environment
• Leverage AI systems to optimize performance, observability, and operational efficiency

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience developing large-scale, consumer-facing web applications.
• Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks (Angular, React).
• Strong experience with building and bundling tools like Webpack.
• Strong experience with testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Jest, Karma).
• Strong experience in optimizing web application performance, including code splitting, lazy loading, and reducing Time to Interactive (TTI).
• Experience evaluating and integrating AI-assisted development tools into engineering workflows
• Strong understanding of how AI can be applied to improve developer productivity, system design, and operational efficiency

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. 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 https://www.axon.com/careers.

Base Pay Range

$141,000-$225,600 USD

Don't meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you're excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

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.