Our mission is to protect life.

We’re out to make the world a safer place by solving big problems and taking on the public safety challenges of our time. From our company's inception building the TASER device to a full suite of hardware and software solutions, we are focused on providing police agencies with the state-of-the-art devices and services they need to successfully serve and protect us. In the next few years, we're going to eliminate the burden of paperwork in policing, so officers can increase the time they spend building relationships and serving in their communities. We’ll put video at the heart of the police record so our justice system can get to the truth faster. And we won't stop innovating until the bullet is rendered obsolete.

It’s a big mission, but it’s one we’ll pursue relentlessly every single day. 

Our mission is to Protect Life.

In the next 10 years, we’ll triple the amount of time officers can spend serving their communities. In the next 20, we’ll eliminate paperwork in policing so that officers can focus on what matters. And in the next 50 years, we’ll make the bullet obsolete.

Real Time Communications in public safety

While enterprise collaboration has experienced a sea change in the past 10 years (think Zoom, Slack, and a bevy of role and domain specific tools), public safety has largely been left behind. Though police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel put themselves in harm’s way on a daily basis, their ability to communicate and coordinate is hampered by disjointed systems, arcane user interfaces, and technology that was implemented before (and without) modern product design and technology. The news is full of examples of first responders lacking critical information, which leads to less than ideal outcomes.

Axon is in a unique position to address this problem. As the the largest provider of de-escalation training and the creator of the world’s first LTE-connected body camera, we are leading the charge to connect first responders, enable them to make more intelligent decisions, and ultimately save more lives. To that end, the Real Time Communications team is creating a new product category that integrates voice, text, and video communications into a lightning-fast collaboration toolset. Like all teams at Axon, we value transparency and bias for action, and are looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us in pulling the future forward into today. 

Your Impact

• You will be leading the charge to expand our real-time communication products to support Fire and Medical emergency responders. You will be doing customer development with your product manager and product designer counterparts to understand the customer outcomes that need to be achieved. You will be empowered to hire and build a high-performing engineering team that is customer-obsessed and encompasses a strong engineering culture. You will collaborate with the engineering director and other engineering managers on strategic and tactical planning. If you are successful, you will be on the path to building a differentiating product that will disrupt our industry.

Your Day-to-Day

• Working with product managers and product designers to build a disruptive product for Fire and Medical emergency responders
• Join forces with recruiting to hire a top-notch engineering team
• Managing engineers with weekly 1:1s
• Driving the execution of your squads through leading architectural reviews, defining engineering processes, and tracking obstacles for your squads

Basic Qualifications

• 6+ years professional software development experience
• 2+ years of experience leading an engineering team
• Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems
• Deep experience in multiple, managed languages such as Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
• Experience working with multiple SQL or NoSQL datastores
• Proven ability for coaching and mentoring
• You love delighting end users and hunger for novel challenges

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Familiar with modern frontend frameworks like React or Angular
• You follow the latest in software engineering and open source technologies, and can intuit the fine line between promising new practice and overhyped fad
• You love delighting end users and hunger for novel challenges

Compensation and Benefits

• Competitive salary, 401K with employer match, and equity
• Unlimited paid time off
• A supportive parental leave policy
• An award-winning office/working environment
• Ability to work remotely as projects allow
• Ride along with real police officers in real life situations, see them use technology, get inspired

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.