Senior Software Engineer - Front End

About the position

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. Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you'll take ownership and drive real change. As a Senior Software Engineer I on the Frontend Squad, you will collaborate with other engineers to shape and drive technical solutions and architecture for scalable, high-performance frontend web applications. You will work closely with engineers in your team and across the organization to review designs and steer them toward more reliable and sustainable outcomes, making you a force multiplier. You are a great collaborator and coach, and will help to grow engineers in your team. You foster a friendly, open, introspective culture that encourages everyone to speak their mind and avoid red tape, unnecessary rituals, bureaucracy and politics. 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.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the technical roadmap for mission-critical web applications
• Implement robust, reusable, and maintainable code using React and other modern frameworks
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design to solve the team's biggest technical challenges
• Lead engineering architecture design reviews
• Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews
• Enjoy mentoring and growing engineers
• Working across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions that delight our customers
• Improve our Engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups
• Building that adhere to our high bar on availability and latency in this mission-critical space

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• 7+ years of professional software development experience
• Experience developing large-scale, consumer-facing web applications
• Expertise in JavaScript/TypeScript, HTML5, CSS3, and modern frameworks such as React
• Experience with Redux, RxJS, TanStack Query or other state management libraries
• Experience working with cloud based APIs and infrastructure
• Strong experience with build and bundling tools like Webpack, Vite, or Rollup
• Proficient with testing tools and frameworks (e.g., Jest, React Testing Library)
• Deep familiarity with Git and collaborative workflows like GitHub or GitLab
• Experience in optimizing web application performance, including code splitting, lazy loading, and reducing Time to Interactive (TTI)