As a Senior Engineer on the Axon Alerts team in London, you design, build, and deliver the alerting platform that notifies the right people at the right time. You help ensure high availability and low latency for a mission-critical system that ingests diverse device data, enriches metadata, and routes alerts across channels. You mentor peers and help elevate engineering practices, dashboards, and incident response. This role combines hands-on delivery with cross-team collaboration to improve public safety outcomes.
Pay / Benefits
Competitive base salary
RSUs
Pension plan with matching
Private health insurance
30 days holiday + UK holidays
Enhanced maternity/paternity leave in UK only? (per ad)
Responsibilities
Lead architectural reviews and guide system design for high availability and low latency
Build services for ingestion, enrichment, and routing of alerts across multiple channels
Mentor engineers and raise technical bar through code and architecture reviews
Collaborate with Product, Design, and Engineering to deliver integrated solutions
Improve engineering processes, including planning, sprint rituals, and architectural thinking
Enhance operational excellence with metrics, observability dashboards, and incident prevention
Work with cloud-based and open-source technologies to solve real-time challenges
Drive cross-team initiatives to improve reliability and user impact
Key requirements
8+ years of professional software development experience
Experience designing and delivering highly-available, scalable cloud-based systems
Backend service experience in Java, Scala, Go, C#, or similar
Experience with SQL or NoSQL data stores, queue services, cache services, or gateway services
Knowledge of software engineering best practices and open-source technologies
Customer-driven mindset and ability to handle novel challenges
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