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. Like our products, we work better together. We connect with candor and care, seeking out diverse perspectives from our customers, communities and each other.
Life 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.
As a Senior Software Engineer I focused on Tools & Frameworks, you are a project technical leader: you lead the technical execution of tooling and framework projects, set quality standards, and guide peers while managing cross-team dependencies. You own full projects or major portions of a multi-engineer project, exercising independent technical judgment across the project lifecycle.
You build deep expertise in the developer - tooling and framework domain — build systems, test and automation frameworks, and developer-facing platforms for embedded software — and begin influencing roadmap and architectural decisions. You coordinate across contributors and navigate ambiguity with minimal supervision, multiplying the productivity of every engineering team that adopts what you build.
WHAT YOU’LL DOLocation: Hybrid with 1 virtual day and 4 days in office, Ho Chi Minh City Office
Reports to: Engineering Manager
- Lead the technical execution of tooling and framework projects, setting quality standards and guiding peers while managing cross-team dependencies.
- Own full projects or major portions of a multi-engineer project, exercising independent technical judgment across the project lifecycle.
- Build deep expertise in your domain and begin influencing roadmap and architectural decisions, coordinating across contributors and navigating ambiguity with minimal supervision.
- Own quality and safety for projects end-to-end and improve the team’s quality and best practices, designing and maintaining advanced tests for scalability, resiliency, and safety-critical behaviors.
- Use agentic AI across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, holding outcomes to architectural, performance, and maintainability standards, and use AI to accelerate operational readiness including troubleshooting and monitoring improvements.
- Mentor junior engineers in an ongoing way, helping them grow in skills, judgment, and ownership.
- Collaborate closely with embedded, platform, and cross-functional engineering teams to understand their pain points and deliver tooling and frameworks that multiply their productivity.
Required Skills
- 5+ years experience of professional software development in C/C++, Go, Python and/or another systems programming language.
- Strong experience developing, debugging, and shipping embedded software on Linux-based or backend services.
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly extending developer tools and frameworks - build systems, test and automation frameworks, CI/CD, or SDKs - used by other engineers.
- Understanding of Computer Science fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, run-time analysis, object-oriented design and code quality verification.
- 2+ years mentoring junior team members and/or leading small teams.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience designing SDKs or developer-facing platforms consumed by other engineering teams, and building reusable, hermetic, or reproducible build and test infrastructure for embedded or systems software.
- Experience using agentic AI across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation, holding outcomes to architectural, performance, and maintainability standards.
- Experience creating reusable AI workflows and shared standards that raise the baseline quality of AI-assisted development across a team.
- You follow the latest developments in developer tooling, embedded software, and open source technologies, and can distinguish between promising new practices and passing trends.
- Demonstrated growth in skills and capabilities toward the next level of technical leadership.
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance
- Robust Paid Time Off policy
- Bonuses
- Lunch allowance
- Cell phone stipend
- Free LinkedIn Learning account or Udemy account
- Access to 24/7 online emotional and mental support
- Gym membership
- Free parking
- Stocked fridges and pantries - free coffee, cold beverages, snacks
- Annual Company Outing Trip
- Monthly team social activities
Don’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.
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 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.
Important Notes
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.
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Skills Required
- 5+ years professional software development experience in C/C++, Go, Python or another systems programming language.
- Strong experience developing, debugging, and shipping embedded software on Linux-based systems or backend services.
- Demonstrated experience building or significantly extending developer tools and frameworks (build systems, test and automation frameworks, CI/CD, or SDKs) used by other engineers.
- Understanding of computer science fundamentals: data structures, algorithms, run-time analysis, object-oriented design, and code quality verification.
- 2+ years mentoring junior team members and/or leading small teams.
- Experience designing SDKs or developer-facing platforms consumed by other engineering teams, and building reusable, hermetic, or reproducible build and test infrastructure for embedded or systems software.
- Experience using agentic AI across design, implementation, testing, debugging, and documentation.
- Experience creating reusable AI workflows and shared standards that raise the baseline quality of AI-assisted development across a team.
- Demonstrated growth toward the next level of technical leadership and familiarity with latest developer tooling and open source technologies.
Axon Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Axon and has not been reviewed or approved by Axon.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans with employer HSA contributions and 24/7 mental-health support. Wellness programs and fitness options further enhance the package.
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Equity Value & Accessibility — Total rewards commonly include stock grants and an employee stock purchase plan alongside base pay and bonuses. Equity is highlighted as a motivating component of compensation.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave is offered, including a standard period with additional supplemental pregnancy leave. Family-focused policies are positioned as a meaningful part of the overall benefits.
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What We Do
Our mission is to protect life by making the bullet obsolete and developing technologies to make the world a safer place. Axon is a software & hardware team of product experts, security pros, engineering wizards, sales & marketing pros, and technology buffs - all committed to helping make the world a safer place.
Why Work With Us
Axon innovations exist to bridge the divide between communities and law enforcement. Our team works to solve big societal issues by providing public safety with the tools to help decrease use-of-force and increase transparency and accountability. Big goals mean we need high-performance teams, independent thinking, and cross-functional excellence.
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