2026 AfroTech Software Engineer

<h1>Software Engineer – 2026 AfroTech Attendees</h1> <h3><strong>PLEASE NOTE</strong></h3> <p>This opportunity is reserved for <strong>registered 2026 AfroTech attendees</strong> as part of Axon’s AfroTech recruiting experience. You must be attending AfroTech 2026 to apply through this posting.</p> <p>Not attending AfroTech this year? <strong>We still want to hear from you.</strong> Explore current opportunities and find your place at Axon at <strong>axon.com/careers</strong>.</p> <h3><strong>Work Location</strong></h3> <p>These opportunities may be based out of our <strong>Boston, MA, Scottsdale, AZ, New York, NY, Sterling, VA, or Seattle, WA</strong> offices.</p> <p>We follow a hybrid schedule and rely on in-person collaboration. Team members work onsite <strong>Tuesdays through Fridays</strong>, with the flexibility to work remotely on Mondays, unless there is an approved workplace accommodation. We believe connection fuels innovation, and our in-office culture is designed to foster meaningful teamwork, mentorship, and shared success.</p> <h2><strong>Join Axon and Be a Force for Good</strong></h2> <p>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.</p> <p>Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging, and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. You’ll constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters and a company where you matter.</p> <h2><strong>Your Impact</strong></h2> <p>As a Software Engineer at Axon, you’ll help build technology that supports mission-critical products used by customers around the world.</p> <p>We are hiring engineers across a range of experience levels. Depending on your background, you may be growing your skills alongside experienced engineers, independently owning features and services, or leading technical design and architecture for complex systems.</p> <p>You’ll work in a collaborative, AI-first engineering environment where modern development tools, automation, and AI-assisted workflows are part of how we build software. You’ll partner with engineers, product managers, designers, and other teams to solve meaningful customer problems while building reliable, scalable technology.</p> <p>Whether you are early in your career or an experienced engineer, we are looking for people who are curious, take ownership, care about quality, and want to continue growing.</p> <h2><strong>What You’ll Do</strong></h2> <p>Depending on your experience and the team you join, you may:</p> <ul> <li>Design, build, test, deploy, and maintain production software and services</li> <li>Own features and technical projects from requirements through production</li> <li>Participate in code reviews, technical discussions, and architecture design</li> <li>Build highly available, scalable, and performant systems for mission-critical products</li> <li>Work with modern cloud, distributed systems, data, and open-source technologies</li> <li>Partner with Product, Design, and Engineering to build solutions that solve real customer problems</li> <li>Use AI-assisted development tools, automation, and intelligent workflows to improve engineering productivity and software quality</li> <li>Validate and critically evaluate AI-generated code and technical recommendations</li> <li>Improve testing, observability, reliability, and operational efficiency</li> <li>Contribute to engineering processes and technical best practices</li> <li>Learn from experienced engineers and share your knowledge with others</li> <li>At more senior levels, provide technical leadership, influence architecture decisions, mentor engineers, and help raise the technical bar across teams</li> </ul> <h2><strong>What You Bring</strong></h2> <p>We know great engineers come from many different backgrounds. Relevant experience may come from professional roles, internships, academic work, military experience, open-source contributions, boot camps, or other hands-on software development.</p> <p>We’re interested in candidates who bring some combination of:</p> <ul> <li>A foundation in computer science, software engineering, or equivalent practical experience</li> <li>Experience programming in languages such as <strong>Java, Go, Scala, C#, Python, C++, or similar</strong></li> <li>Experience or interest in building backend services, APIs, cloud applications, distributed systems, or other production software</li> <li>Familiarity with SQL and/or NoSQL data stores</li> <li>An understanding of software engineering fundamentals including data structures, algorithms, testing, debugging, and system design appropriate to your experience level</li> <li>Curiosity about modern engineering tools, including AI-assisted development, code generation, and automation</li> <li>A commitment to writing reliable, maintainable, and high-quality software</li> <li>Strong problem-solving and communication skills</li> <li>A desire to understand customer problems and build technology that makes a meaningful impact</li> </ul> <p>For more experienced engineers, we may also look for:</p> <ul> <li