Remote-Optional: Staff Software Engineer — AI-Driven Architect

Axios; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Health insurance

Learning and development stipend

Home office stipend

Job summary

Axios is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Washington, DC, a senior hands-on IC to lead architecture and delivery for Axios' core products across multiple teams. You will own end-to-end design, guide AI-native practices, and ship reliable, secure systems without people management responsibilities.

You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to align dependencies, shape roadmaps, and raise technical standards across frontend and backend services, with a strong emphasis

Qualifications

• 7+ years in professional software development with multi-team impact.
• Hands-on with AI-native development and agentic coding tools.
• Experience building production services and APIs in Go or Python.

Responsibilities

• Lead cross-team architecture and delivery for core products.
• Drive multi-quarter initiatives with hands-on coding.
• Mentor engineers and promote reliability and security.

Skills

Staff-level engineer

AI-native development

Go/Python

API design

Security

Reliability

Tools

Go

Python

APIs REST

Job description

Axios is seeking a Staff Software Engineer in Washington, DC, a senior hands-on IC to lead architecture and delivery for Axios' core products across multiple teams. You will own end-to-end design, guide AI-native practices, and ship reliable, secure systems without people management responsibilities.

You'll collaborate with product managers, designers, and engineers to align dependencies, shape roadmaps, and raise technical standards across frontend and backend services, with a strong emphasis