Senior Software Engineer

Axon; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive base salary and RSUs

Private health insurance

Comprehensive pension plan with match

GymPass subscription

Life assurance & income protection

Job summary

Axon is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for Forensic Intelligence in London. You will shape architecture for public-safety video evidence platforms, drive scalable media processing and forensic tooling, and mentor engineers across the team.

The role reports to the Director of Engineering, DEMS UK, with a hybrid London-based schedule. Ideal candidates bring 8+ years in software engineering, strong fundamentals across languages, and experience in video processing, codecs, streaming, or format

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS, Engineering, or related field with 8+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Mentor engineers across multiple levels and raise the technical bar of a team or organisation.
• Strong fundamentals across multiple languages and the full stack, with ability to translate concepts into deliverables.

Responsibilities

• Take ownership for building and delivering advanced capabilities for Video Forensics, including media processing pipelines, forensic playback, investigation tooling, and video format R&D.
• Design systems that span multiple applications and services, ensuring scalability and maintainability over time.
• Drive cross-team design reviews and align on architectural decisions across independent teams.
• Turn ambiguous requirements into clear technical direction for the team to execute.
• Raise the quality bar through design reviews and engineering best practices.
• Mentor junior and senior engineers to grow team depth and independence.
• Effectively communicate technical direction to leadership and the wider organisation.

Skills

Video forensics

Mentoring engineers

Strong architecture

Azure cloud services

TypeScript/React

.NET

Python

Java

C/C++

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field

Tools

Azure cloud services

Job description

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 Software Engineer in Forensic Intelligence, you'll use your deep technical skills and knowledge to shape the architecture and technical direction for the systems that enable public safety agencies to investigate, analyse, and trust video evidence at scale. You'll drive initiatives spanning media processing pipelines, browser-native forensic tools, and enabling novel video formats to be playable on our platform. You'll design systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users globally. You'll work closely with a growing team of engineers, help establish the technical quality bar, and partner closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver against the long-term vision for forensic capabilities within Evidence.com.

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.

What You'll Do

Location: London, United Kingdom

Reports to: Director of Engineering, DEMS UK

• Take ownership for the building and delivering advanced capabilities for Video Forensics, spanning media processing pipelines, forensic playback, investigation tooling, and video format R&D
• Design systems that span multiple applications and services, ensuring they scale, remain operable, and evolve gracefully over time
• Drive cross-team design reviews, ensuring consistent technical quality and alignment across independently operating teams
• Take contradictory, incomplete, or ambiguous requirements and turn them into coherent technical direction that the team can execute against
• Continuously raise the team’s quality bar through design reviews, driving engineering best practices and leading by example on ways of working
• Mentor Junior and Senior engineers through technical and execution guidance, growing the team's depth and independence
• Communicate the team's technical direction to leadership and engage across the organisation on architectural decisions and collaboration

What You Bring

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
• Track record of mentoring engineers across multiple levels and raising the technical bar of a team or organisation
• Strong Engineering and Architecture fundamentals across multiple languages, with breadth across the stack
• Excellent communicator who is able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to drive alignment across distributed teams
• Ability to take high level concepts and customer needs, and work with your team to translate these into tangible customer deliverables
• Desirable: Experience with video or media processing, codecs, streaming, or format analysis
• Desirable: Experience with Azure cloud services, and a range of modern languages including TypeScript/React, .NET, Python, Java or C/C++

Benefits that benefit you

• Competitive base salary and RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• GymPass subscription
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

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.

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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.

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