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# backend-focused software engineers

- **Company:** Axon Enterprise, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Experience:** Experienced
- **Salary:** $141,000.0 - $216,600.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Ruby on Rails, Software Engineering, Video Editing, Backend, Information Technology, Webforms, Golang
- **Published:** May 19, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/513c4e4f-2459-48d1-ba3b-e8524927c233

## About the Role

* 3+ years of software engineering industry experience
 * Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or equivalent experience
 * Proficiency in or eagerness to learn our backend stack (Ruby on Rails, Golang)
 * Experience with large-scale distributed systems
 * Desire to work in a fast-paced and dynamic startup environment
 * Strong communication and interpersonal skills
 * Our team is leaning into agentic software development workflows, and we're looking for engineers who have experimented with-or are enthusiastic about embracing-AI-augmented ways of building software.

## Description

We are looking to hire backend-focused software engineers on the Prepared team at a variety of levels who share our passion for our mission. This is an opportunity to join a growing engineering team and make a large impact while operating with a high degree of autonomy and ownership.

This is a hybrid role, with an expectation of four days per week in our Manhattan office.

In this role, you will tackle challenging engineering problems in spaces like audio/video processing and generative AI to bring new features and products from inception to scale, thoughtfully balancing speed and the high bar for stability necessitated by the mission-critical nature of our products. As an early member of the team, you will also play a key role in shaping the foundation of Prepared's engineering culture.
What You'll Do

 * Collaborate cross-functionally to architect and launch new user-facing features and products
 * Design and drive initiatives to improve the availability and reliability of our backend systems
 * Continuously help improve the engineering processes and tools that allow us to scale the codebase and team
 * Provide mentorship to less experienced engineers
 * Travel occasionally to support customer deployments and onsite implementations, We collect personal information from applicants to evaluate candidates for employment. You may request access, deletion, or exercise other CCPA rights at or via our Axon Privacy Web Form. For more information, please see the Your California Privacy Rights section of our Applicant and Candidate Privacy Notice.

Axon's mission is to Protect Life and is committed to the well-being and safety of its employees as well as Axon's impact on the environment. All Axon employees must be aware of and committed to the appropriate environmental, health, and safety regulations, policies, and procedures. Axon employees are empowered to report safety concerns as they arise and activities potentially impacting the environment.


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