Ho Chi Minh City, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam Hybrid Employment

Axon is hiring a Staff Software Engineer

About the Role

As a Staff Software Engineer at Axon, you will shape our technical direction, ensure product reliability, and mentor engineers. You will collaborate across teams to solve significant technical challenges and deliver innovative solutions that support our mission of protecting life.

What You'll Do

  • Set a high technical bar for the team through deep technical insights and architecture design reviews.
  • Mentor senior software engineers across multiple teams.
  • Work across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to solve some of our biggest technical challenges.
  • Improve our Engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning, and stand-ups.
  • Build services that adhere to our high bar on availability, performance, and security in this mission-critical space.
  • Work with the latest open source technologies.

What We're Looking For

  • 10+ years of experience in software engineering.
  • Experience building and scaling complex, impactful software products in a team environment.
  • Deep skill in driving technical solutions across multiple teams.
  • Backend cloud experience in managed languages such as Scala, Java, Go, C#, or similar.
  • Strong experience with relational and NoSQL databases, such as SQL Server and Cassandra.
  • Experience designing and delivering high-availability, scalable cloud-based systems.
  • You write beautiful, simple, maintainable code for backend microservices.
  • A track record of setting the technical and organizational direction for a growing engineering team across multiple global locations.

Technical Stack

  • Scala, Java, Go, C#
  • SQL Server, Cassandra

Team & Environment

You will collaborate with other staff and senior engineers and mentor senior engineers across multiple teams.

Benefits & Compensation

  • 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

Work Mode

This is a hybrid position based in Ho Chi Minh City.

We are an equal opportunity employer that promotes justice, advances equity, values diversity and fosters inclusion. We’re 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.

Required Skills
ScalaJavaGoC#SQL ServerCassandraBackend DevelopmentCloudRelational DatabasesNoSQLSoftware ArchitectureScalability
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Axon

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.

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Job Details
Department Software Development
Category backend
Posted 14 days ago