Senior Software Engineer - Real-Time Audio/AI, Hybrid NYC

Prepared911; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 141,000 - 217,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary and 401k with-emloy

Discretionary time off

Paid parental leave for all

Fitness Programs

Emotional & Development Programs

Snacks in our offices

Job summary

Axon 911 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in New York, hybrid with relocation assistance. You will build high-performance, low-latency devices and backend services, shaping features from inception to scale while balancing speed and stability.

You will mentor engineers and work across teams to improve reliability, latency, and system design, with opportunities to travel for on-site deployments and customer support.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of software engineering experience, including designing, building, and operating complex production systems.
• Hands-on experience building real-time audio or video systems, such as VoIP or live communications platforms.
• Strong understanding of distributed systems and event-driven architectures.
• Proven experience building highly available, fault-tolerant, and resilient services at scale.
• Expertise in reliability patterns such as redundancy, failover, graceful degradation, recovery, and observability.
• Demonstrated technical ownership of business-critical systems in which performance, uptime, and reliability are essential.
• Experience adopting and effectively integrating AI-assisted development tools throughout the software development lifecycle (SDLC) to improve engineering productivity, code quality, testing, documentation, and delivery

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

Software engineering

Real-time AV

Distributed systems

High availability

Reliability patterns

Technical ownership

AI in SDLC

Job description

Axon 911 is hiring a Senior Software Engineer in New York, hybrid with relocation assistance. You will build high-performance, low-latency devices and backend services, shaping features from inception to scale while balancing speed and stability.

You will mentor engineers and work across teams to improve reliability, latency, and system design, with opportunities to travel for on-site deployments and customer support.