Location: London, England, United Kingdom

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

Your Impact

What Youll Do

• Design and build scalable, fault-tolerant backend services that support real-time AI experiences across Axon devices, mobile apps, and web interfaces.
• Collaborate with Applied AI teams to integrate large language models and related services into production systems with a focus on latency, reliability, and observability.
• Contribute to and lead architecture discussions , including model orchestration, caching strategies, data storage patterns, and compute optimization.
• Write production code (Node.js, Python, or similar), review pull requests, and promote engineering best practices across the team.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with product, design, and client teams to deliver intelligent, usable features on a fast-moving roadmap.
• Improve how we operate: help shape sprint rituals, incident response, system monitoring, and long-term platform health.
• Mentor and support other engineers, helping grow a strong engineering culture built on trust, ownership, and execution.

What You Bring

Required Skills

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 6+ years of professional software development experience, ideally in backend or platform teams.
• Strong proficiency in backend service development in Node.js , Python , Go , or similar languages.
• Experience designing and operating cloud-native systems (AWS, Azure, or GCP) with a focus on scalability and resilience.
• Familiarity with AI/ML systems , or demonstrable ability to quickly ramp up in highly technical, ambiguous domains.
• Strong knowledge of REST APIs , distributed system design, and performance optimization.
• Experience with both SQL and NoSQL data stores , caching layers, and observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus, Datadog).

Nice to have:

• Experience deploying or integrating LLMs or NLP models in production systems.
• Comfortable balancing short-term execution with long-term architectural thinking .
• Passion for building highly-available systems that power mission-critical experiences.
• Interest in or exposure to real-time systems , edge computing, or high-trust user domains (e.g. healthcare, defense, finance).

Benefits that benefit you

• Competitive base salary and RSUs
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution
• Private health insurance & cash plans
• 30 days paid holiday + UK public holidays
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave
• Life assurance & income protection
• Career growth support and wellness resources

Dont 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.

Studies 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 youre excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesnt 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.

The 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.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

Axons mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axons 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.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. Were 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 emailrecruitingops@axon.com . Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.