Axon Inc.

Overview of job

You are a Software Engineering Manager/ Senior Manager with experience building, expanding and caring for backend services that help public safety officers in their day to day activities. You have passion and experience in growing exceptional developers and productive teams. You have solid experience in production backend development at large scale.

You want to lead multiple teams of software experts in building complex and impactful software systems while keeping your hands in the technical details. You also enjoy mentoring and growing engineers.

Your Day to Day:

• Build and lead a team from when products are in concept, in development, and in production.
• Ensure and encourage communication across related global teams such as quality assurance, backend services, mobile application and desktop application teams
• Ensure high quality and future maintainability output from a team with a strong emphasis on tracking metrics and monitoring errors in the field
• Guide team on use of new technologies balancing risk and reward
• Define engineering processes and best practices
• Participate in design and code reviews

• An awesome office/working environment with the latest technologies
• Competitive salary and benefits including a great medical insurance plan for you and your family
• Free lunch, gym, phone stipend, parking
• Fun team activities and outings
• Flexible working hours
• Opportunities for training in the US
• Opportunities to ride along with real US police officers in real life situations, see them use our technology, and 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.

Basic Qualifications:

• 8+ years professional software development experience
• 5+ years of experience leading an engineering team
• Proven ability for coaching and mentoring
• A passion for communication and collaboration
• A track record of planning and delivering on multiple overlapping projects spanning several months
• Experience implementing engineering processes that emphasize security and quality
• English working proficiency

Preferred Qualifications:

• You distilled your people and team management practices into a set of models and principles that you regularly verbalize, apply, and improve
• You thrived in multi-functional organizations by building consensus and partnering with product management, designers, information security, and recruiting
• You have calibrated coding, system design and behavioral job interview questions that you used to hire top talent and quickly grow your team
• You maintained high performance standards by collecting objective metrics and peer feedback for performance evaluation and management
• You mentored junior and senior engineers, helping them understand themselves, influence others, and advance towards their career goals
• You established trust with senior leaders by aligning your priorities with theirs, providing timely, accurate, and succinct status updates, and helping other teams when needed
• You have kept your engineering skills sharp so you can review your team's code, evaluate design options, and provide high-level cost estimates
• You follow the latest in open source technologies and can intuit the fine line between a promising new practice and an overhyped fad