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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.\nLife 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.\nYour Impact\nYou are a Staff Software Engineer with experience building large-scale software applications and distributed systems. In this role, you will help shape the technical direction for DEMS, a mission-critical product area where reliability, security, and usability matter deeply. You will collaborate with other senior and staff engineers, engineering managers, product managers, and designers to solve complex customer problems and build durable systems that scale.\nYour strong system design skills allow you to take a holistic view of architecture, reliability, and developer productivity. You raise the bar not just through your own contributions, but by reviewing designs, mentoring engineers, improving technical decision-making, and helping teams align around pragmatic, high-quality solutions.\nAs a senior technical contributor, you are energized by solving hard problems, reducing ambiguity, and building systems that perform under real-world demands. As a technical leader, you partner with engineering leadership on long-term technical strategy while balancing business priorities, roadmap commitments, and engineering health.\nCome work in an environment where your experience, judgment, and technical leadership will directly contribute to products that help deliver better outcomes in public safety.\nWhat You'll Do\nWork Location: This role is based out of our London 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.\nSet a high technical bar through architecture leadership, deep technical insight, and thoughtful design reviews.\nDrive technical direction across one or more DEMS domains, ensuring solutions are scalable, maintainable, secure, and resilient.\nPartner across Engineering, Product, Design, and adjacent teams to solve some of the most important and ambiguous technical challenges in the DEMS space.\nLead the design and evolution of backend services, APIs, data flows, and system integrations that support mission-critical workflows.\nIdentify systemic risks and opportunities, and drive improvements in reliability, observability, performance, and operational excellence.\nMentor engineers across teams and help grow future technical leaders.\nImprove engineering effectiveness by introducing better patterns, simplifying complexity, and supporting high-quality execution.\nContribute directly to implementation where needed, especially in high-leverage or high-risk areas.\nWhat You Bring\n15+ years of software engineering experience.\nExperience building and scaling complex software products in a collaborative team environment.\nDeep expertise in backend systems and distributed system design.\nStrong experience with cloud platforms and production service operations.\nExperience driving technical solutions across multiple teams or broad product areas.\nStrong understanding of system design, reliability, performance, observability, and security.\nExperience with relational and/or NoSQL databases.\nTrack record of writing clean, maintainable, production-grade code.\nProven ability to influence technical direction and organizational outcomes without relying on formal authority.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills.\nHighly Valued\nExperience in enterprise SaaS, mission-critical systems, compliance-sensitive domains, or workflow-heavy platforms.\nExperience with evidence management, records systems, chain-of-custody concepts, or highly trusted data systems.\nExperience supporting hybrid, on-prem, or cloud-connected product architectures.\nFamiliarity with languages and platforms commonly used in modern backend environments such as Java, Go, C#, Python, or similar.\nBenefits that benefit you\nCompetitive base salary and RSUs\nComprehensive pension plan with matching contribution\nPrivate health insurance & cash plans\n30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays\nEnhanced maternity/paternity leave\nGymPass subscription\nLife assurance & income protection\nCareer growth support and wellness resources\nDon’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.\nStudies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.\nImportant Notes\nThe 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.\nSome roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.\nWe collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at  or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.\nAxon’s mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon’s impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.\nWe 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. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email . Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. 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