Remote Staff Software Engineer - AI-Driven Systems Leader

Axios Media Inc.; Northern (KY); Hybrid; USD 165,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) with employer match

Health insurance

HSA contribution

Dental and vision coverage

Paid parental leave

Learning stipend

Work-from-home stipend

Headspace access

OneMedical membership

Family Forming benefits

Job summary

Axios Media Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and delivery for Axios' core products across multiple teams. You'll stay hands-on while guiding multi-quarter initiatives, focusing on AI-native practices and strong product-engineering collaboration.

You'll partner with product managers, designers, and leaders to shape plans, resolve ambiguity, and build resilient systems with measurable impact on readers and editorial workflows. This is a senior IC role.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in professional software development.

Responsibilities

• Lead mission-critical or high-risk initiatives spanning teams and connected systems.
• Own architecture for a product area and scalable boundaries across frontend, APIs, data, and production systems.
• Write, review, and prototype code while guiding migrations and operating services in production.
• Identify where AI-enabled features add value and build reusable capabilities with guardrails.
• Improve testing, observability, security, and incident response.
• Mentor engineers across teams and promote design patterns.
• Shape the product-area roadmap with product and design partners.

Skills

Staff-level engineer

AI-native development

Backend development (Go/Python)

Cross-team leadership

Architecture design

Code review & testing

Security & reliability

Mentoring

Communication

System design thinking

Tools

Go

Python

gRPC

Cloud infrastructure

Containers

Job description

Axios Media Inc. is seeking a Staff Software Engineer to lead architecture and delivery for Axios' core products across multiple teams. You'll stay hands-on while guiding multi-quarter initiatives, focusing on AI-native practices and strong product-engineering collaboration.

You'll partner with product managers, designers, and leaders to shape plans, resolve ambiguity, and build resilient systems with measurable impact on readers and editorial workflows. This is a senior IC role.