Senior Backend Engineer - AI-Driven Public Safety Platform

Axon; United States; Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401k match

Discretionary time off

Parental leave

Fitness programs

Emotional development

Snacks in office

Job summary

Axon is hiring backend-focused software engineers for the Prepared team in a hybrid role in Manhattan. You will tackle challenging problems in audio/video processing and generative AI, delivering features from conception to scale with autonomy.

Join a mission-driven environment where you mentor teammates, improve backend reliability, and collaborate across functions to ship with speed and stability for safety-critical products.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering industry experience.
• Bachelor's degree in CS or related field, or equivalent.
• Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (Ruby on Rails, Golang).

Responsibilities

• Collaborate cross-functionally to architect and launch new user-facing features and products
• Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of our backend systems
• Continuously help improve the engineering processes and tools that allow us to scale the codebase and team
• Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers
• Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations

Skills

5+ years experience

Ruby on Rails

Golang

Distributed systems

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Job description

Axon is hiring backend-focused software engineers for the Prepared team in a hybrid role in Manhattan. You will tackle challenging problems in audio/video processing and generative AI, delivering features from conception to scale with autonomy.

Join a mission-driven environment where you mentor teammates, improve backend reliability, and collaborate across functions to ship with speed and stability for safety-critical products.