Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
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.
Your Impact
As a Senior Engineer at Axon, you will bring your experience and knowledge to directly impact our mission to protect life by delivering class leading experiences for our customers. Your work will directly contribute to how public safety agencies across 90 countries are able to efficiently review, analyse and share evidence. You’ll also create the tools that enable agencies to rapidly review, clip and mark up video evidence. You’ll work to build the supporting UI components, ensuring they’re intuitive, well tested and performant. You’ll join forces with our teams across the US and Vietnam to enrich the video experience across web and mobile platforms, while collaborating closely with supporting back-end service teams.
What you’ll do
- Build user experiences that create capabilities to quickly review, analysis and share evidence and video
- Work to develop our universal video player, integrating across key Axon products including Evidence.com, delivering incredible video experiences that are fast, responsive, resilient and scalable
- Collaborate closely with Product Managers to understand customer needs and future requirements
- Provide and contribute to technical designs and technical architecture, working in a highly collaborative manner with other technical leaders to develop well architected system designs
- Helping to raise the bar in your team through your contribution to code reviews, architecture designs and approaches to quality
- Have an unwavering focus on quality, ensuring code is thoroughly tested through applying innovative automation and load testing approaches
What You Bring
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
- At least 5 years of professional software development experience
- Experienced at building delightful front-end experiences, with excellent knowledge of Javascript, Typescript and React.
- Good knowledge of the protocols, patterns and test frameworks that are needed to create amazing user experiences
- An excellent communicator, able to take difficult technical concepts and make them accessible to a range of audiences
- Highly collaborative approach, working with others to lead with influence
- Experience with performance and optimisation problems, and a demonstrated ability to both diagnose and prevent these problems
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools like Jenkins, GitHub, TeamCity, ArgoCD, etc
- Desired: Experience working with Video technologies including Players, DRM, DASH and HLS.
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.
Axon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.
We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re committed to hiring the best talent — regardless of race, creed, color, ancestry, religion, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship status, marital status, disability, gender identity, genetic information, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations and ordinances — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email recruitingops@axon.com. Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.
