Senior Software Engineer II, Vehicle Intelligence

Overview

Join Axon and be a Force for Good. 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.

As a Senior Software Engineer II, in the Real Time Operations pillar at Axon, you will be intimately involved in the architecture decisions that will shape our Vehicle Intelligence / Automatic License Plate Recognition (ALPR) products. You live and breathe distributed systems, APIs and full stack services that require high availability and fast, consistent performance. You love working with the latest open source technologies, and can leverage your system design skills to make the right technical decisions on a system that needs to be operationally resilient.

Not only can you drive decisions among competing engineering trade-offs, your empathy with customers allows you to develop innovative solutions for our customer problems. You will be working closely with product managers and designers to ensure we are building the right solution for our customers. You also enjoy mentoring other engineers, and love to be a hands-on teacher helping to up level the engineers around you.

Join us to work with a passionate, mission-driven group of folks who want to positively impact the lives of first responders and those that they serve.

Location: This role is based out of our Seattle Office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.

Reports to: Director of Engineering

Direct Reports: None

• Impact the development and design; launching new features and initiatives
• Lead engineering architecture design reviews
• Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
• Mentoring & coaching engineers
• Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions that delight our customers
• Identify improvements to raise our engineering process, including long-term thinking
• Building services that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space
• Scaling our APIs, cloud services and ingestion pipelines
• Working with the latest Agentic AI engineering tools (Claude, OpenAI / Codex, Cursor)

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 8+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems
• Backend service experience in multiple, managed languages such as Go, Java, Python, or similar
• Experience with frontend technologies including React or Angular
• Experience working with SQL or No
  
  SQL data stores such as MySQL, Cassandra, elasticsearch
• You leverage AI agents & tools for the tasks they’re built for, freeing you to focus on the work that requires human creativity, judgment and delivering value to customers

• Competitive salary and 401k with employer match
• Discretionary paid time off
• Paid parental leave for all
• Medical, Dental, Vision plans
• Fitness Programs
• Emotional & Mental Wellness support
• Learning & Development programs
• And yes, we have snacks in our offices

Benefits listed herein may vary depending on the nature of your employment and the location where you work.

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning 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…