Software Engineer II

Axon

13 days ago

Washington, DC, USA

Mid Level / Senior

H1B Sponsor

Base Salary

$121k - $193k/yr

Responsibilities

Design and implement backend services supporting NCIC search and other external database integrations.
Build and evolve partner-facing Records APIs, including data modeling and versioned contracts.
Ensure correctness, compliance, and auditability when handling sensitive external queries.
Design systems that gracefully handle failures and downstream outages.
Improve observability and operational tooling for external search workflows.
Contribute to supporting UI components for operational visibility.
Participate in on-call rotations and drive continuous improvements to system resilience.
Collaborate with product, compliance, and partner teams to evolve integration capabilities.

3+ years of professional software engineering experience.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
Strong backend engineering fundamentals and experience building production services.
Experience designing and operating distributed systems in cloud environments.
Solid understanding of APIs and service-oriented architectures.
Experience integrating with external systems or third-party consumers.
Ability to reason about failure modes and reliability tradeoffs.
Comfort working at system boundaries where security and compliance are critical.
Strong collaboration and communication skills across teams.