Senior Software Engineer I

📋 Description

• • Join Axon and be a Force for Good. As a Senior Software Engineer I, you will be intimately involved in architecture decisions that shape this product, operating in an AI-first engineering environment where you leverage advanced AI systems to inform design decisions, accelerate development, and improve system reliability. You will drive adoption of AI-enabled engineering practices across teams, ensuring scalable and efficient development workflows while mentoring engineers on both system design and AI-first development practices.
• • Day to day, you will lead engineering architecture design reviews incorporating AI-driven insights and system modeling, 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 on availability and latency in a mission-critical environment, and leverage AI systems to optimize performance, observability, and operational efficiency.
• • Axon is on a mission to Protect Life, pursuing society’s most critical safety and justice issues with an ecosystem of devices and cloud software. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging, and meaningful, where you take ownership and drive real change. The company values connection, candor, and care, seeking diverse perspectives from customers, communities, and each other. Based in London with a hybrid schedule (onsite Tuesdays–Fridays, remote Mondays), Axon fosters in-person collaboration to fuel innovation, mentorship, and shared success.
• • In this role, you can learn and achieve mastery in AI-first engineering practices, drive organizational adoption of AI-assisted development tools, deepen expertise in designing highly available and scalable cloud systems, strengthen leadership in mentoring engineers on system design and AI-driven workflows, and contribute to mission-critical software that protects life while growing technically and professionally in a values-driven, innovative environment.