Senior Software Engineer

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.

As a Senior Software Engineer 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.

What You'll Do:

• 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 organization.
• 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:

• Competitive base salary and RSUs.
• Comprehensive pension plan with matching contribution.
• Private health insurance & cash plans.
• 30 days paid holiday plus UK public holidays.
• Enhanced maternity/paternity leave.
• GymPass subscription.
• Life assurance & income protection.
• Career growth support and wellness resources.

Axon is 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—and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work.

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