Senior 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.

As a senior engineer on the Axon Alerts team, you’ll be directly responsible for the design, development and delivery of the Axon Alerts platform. The platform ensures the right people are notified about the right information at the right time. You will be responsible for the system which ingests events from a range...

Work Location: This role is based out of our London 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
Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space
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 create integrated solutions that delight our customers
Improve our Engineering process, including architectural strategic thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups
Improve our Operational excellence process with improved metrics/dashboards for observability, respond to and debug livesite issues, and prevent the issues from reoccurring.
Working with the latest cloud based and open source technologies

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
8+ years of professional software development experience
Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems
Backend service experience in multiple, managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
Experience working with SQL or NoSQL data stores, queue services, cache services, and/or gateway services.
You follow the latest in software engineering and open source technologies, and can intuit the fine line between promising new practice and overhyped fad
You love delighting end users and hunger for novel challenges