Manager, Software Engineering

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 will manage a high-impact software engineering team that develops embedded software for devices connecting cameras and other peripherals, ensuring critical evidence is captured during mission-essential moments for our customers. This is an opportunity to work alongside talented software and firmware engineers an...

Work Location: This role is based out of our Timisoara 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 and grow a high performing team that designs and develops platform firmware or embedded applications and network configurations for Axon's current and future products
Manage a team, demonstrate empathy, and provide clear career growth for Engineers
Collaborate and clearly communicate with global teams during all parts of the Product Development Life-Cycle to drive timely new feature and product launches
Instill a culture within the team of continuous process improvement and adoption of metrics
Set a high technical bar for the team by leading architecture, design and code reviews
Collaborate across Product Management, Design, and Engineering teams to create integrated solutions that delight our customers
Lead a team to build software that adheres to our high bar on quality, stability and latency in this mission-critical space
Work to identify and integrate latest open source technologies to help meet our product requirements
Improve our software engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning/retrospective and stand-ups

Minimum 3 years of experience Leading Teams with Empathy, Objectivity, and a Mentorship mindset
Minimum 7 years experience primarily with Real-world Firmware / Embedded Engineering or related projects that went to market
Experience implementing Engineering Processes that emphasize Quality, Security, Maintainability, Extensibility and Operational Discipline
5+ years experience of professional software development in C/C++, Go, Python and/or another systems programming language
5+ years experience writing unit, integration and/or system level tests
Networking knowledge (such as TCP/IP, VPN, DNS, DHCP, tunneling to support a diverse array of network configurations) is a plus
Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, run-time analysis, object-oriented design and code quality verification