Job Specifications
Join Axon and be a Force for Good.
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.
Your Impact
As a Senior Software Engineer II in Forensic Intelligence, you'll use your deep technical skills and knowledge to shape the architecture and technical direction for the systems that enable public safety agencies to investigate, analyse, and trust video evidence at scale. You'll drive initiatives spanning media processing pipelines, browser-native forensic tools, and enabling novel video formats to be playable on our platform. You'll design systems that serve hundreds of thousands of users globally. You'll work closely with a growing team of engineers, help establish the technical quality bar, and partner closely with product and engineering leadership to deliver against the long-term vision for forensic capabilities within Evidence.com.
Work Location: This role is based out of our London office and follows a hybrid schedule. We rely on in-person collaboration and ask that team members work onsite Tuesdays through Fridays, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe that connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.
What You'll Do
Location: London, United Kingdom
Reports to: Director of Engineering, DEMS UK
Take ownership for the building and delivering advanced capabilities for Video Forensics, spanning media processing pipelines, forensic playback, investigation tooling, and video format R&D
Design systems that span multiple applications and services, ensuring they scale, remain operable, and evolve gracefully over time
Drive cross-team design reviews, ensuring consistent technical quality and alignment across independently operating teams
Take contradictory, incomplete, or ambiguous requirements and turn them into coherent technical direction that the team can execute against
Continuously raise the team’s quality bar through design reviews, driving engineering best practices and leading by example on ways of working
Mentor Junior and Senior engineers through technical and execution guidance, growing the team's depth and independence
Communicate the team's technical direction to leadership and engage across the organisation on architectural decisions and collaboration
What You Bring
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field, and 8+ years of professional software engineering experience
Track record of mentoring engineers across multiple levels and raising the technical bar of a team or organisation
Strong Engineering and Architecture fundamentals across multiple languages, with breadth across the stack
Excellent communicator who is able to articulate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences, and to drive alignment across distributed teams
Ability to take high level concepts and customer needs, and work with your team to translate these into tangible customer deliverables
Desirable: Experience with video or media processing, codecs, streaming, or format analysis
Desirable: Experience with Azure cloud services, and a range of modern languages including TypeScript/React, .NET, Python, Java or C/C++
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
GymPass subscription
Life assurance & income protection
Career growth support and wellness resources
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.
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