Senior Front End Software Engineer

Axon; United States; On-site; USD 141,000 - 225,600; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with employer match

Discretionary paid time off

Paid parental leave

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Mental Wellness support

Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)

Snacks in offices

Job summary

Axon is on a mission to protect life and is seeking a Senior Engineer to oversee architecture decisions and ensure high-performance standards. This role blends software development with AI integration, focusing on creating reliable customer experiences.

You will lead architectural design reviews, mentor team members, optimize engineering processes, and ensure that AI tools are effectively implemented in workflows. Join Axon and contribute to meaningful solutions that enhance public safety.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of professional software development experience.
• Experience evaluating and integrating AI‑assisted development tools into engineering workflows.
• Strong understanding of how AI can be applied to improve developer productivity.

Responsibilities

• Lead engineering architecture design reviews incorporating AI-driven insights.
• Mentor engineers on scalable system design and AI-first development practices.
• Drive adoption of AI-assisted development tools across the engineering organization.

Skills

Cloud services

AI-driven development

Performance optimization

Mentoring

Building tools like Webpack

Education

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

Tools

Webpack

Jest

Karma

Job description

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. 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.

Your Impact

As a senior engineer on the team, you will be intimately involved in architecture decisions that shape this product. You live and breathe cloud services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You bias all decisions towards consistent and trustworthy customer experiences, and you look to do things fast, reliably, and with scaling in mind. You operate in an AI‑first engineering environment, where you leverage advanced AI systems to inform design decisions, accelerate development, and improve system reliability. You are expected to drive the adoption of AI‑enabled engineering practices across teams, ensuring scalable and efficient development workflows. You will work closely with product managers and designers to ensure we build the right solution for our customers, while also mentoring engineers in system design, user experience development and AI‑first development practices.

What You’ll Do

• Lead engineering architecture design reviews, incorporating AI‑driven insights and system modelling
• Set a high technical bar through code and architecture reviews, including evaluation of AI‑generated code and patterns
• Mentor engineers on scalable system design and AI‑first development practices
• Drive adoption of AI‑assisted development tools and workflows across the engineering organization
• Work across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions
• Improve engineering processes by embedding automation, AI tooling, and intelligent workflows into planning and execution
• Build services that adhere to high standards of availability and latency in a mission‑critical environment
• Leverage AI systems to optimize performance, observability, and operational efficiency

What You Bring

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 6+ years of professional software development experience
• Strong experience with building and bundling tools like Webpack
• Strong experience with testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Jest, Karma)
• Strong experience in optimizing web application performance, including code splitting, lazy loading, and reducing Time to Interactive (TTI)
• Experience evaluating and integrating AI‑assisted development tools into engineering workflows
• Strong understanding of how AI can be applied to improve developer productivity, system design, and operational efficiency

Benefits that Benefit You

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs)
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices
• Base Pay Range: $141,000 – $225,600 USD

Axeon is a total compensation company; compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially, and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life.

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.

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.