Senior Software Engineer, Android Engineering (Remote)

Description

Join Axon and be a Force for Good.

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.

Life at Axon is fast-paced, challenging and meaningful. Here, you’ll take ownership and drive real change. Constantly grow as you work hard for a mission that matters at a company where you matter.

Your Impact

You will be part of a critical team that designs technology that has a direct impact on increasing transparency and protecting truth. You will work with a team of talented software engineers, product managers and visual designers to create the mobile experience for our existing products. Your experience shipping mobile applications will allow you to rapidly innovate new and existing mobile applications and bring them to market. You will get the opportunity to build high quality applications using the latest mobile technologies available.

Our existing products are already well established in major agencies around the globe. Adding a mobile experience to these systems will unlock even more potential for new and existing customers. Get in early to create the foundation for the mobile experience. This role provides an awesome opportunity to work on our and platforms for phones and tablets. Check out of fleet 3 tracking a Ferrari!

As part of our mobile team you’ll provide the team with guidance and direction to incorporate some of the latest Android technologies as we deploy our mobile apps to market. If you have experience working with Android engineering, video streaming, Bluetooth, Wifi, device peripherals and other iOT devices, then this is the role for you.

What You’ll Do

Location: Remote anywhere in Canada or the US

• Lead engineering architecture design reviews

• Collaborate with the Axon UX team to create UI designs for mobile and turn these into working solutions

• Work across the entire software life cycle for mobile from prototype through to commercialization and monitoring

• Interface with cloud and firmware services

• Set a high technical bar for the team through code and architecture design reviews

• Mentor engineers

• Work across teams with Product, Design, and Engineering to create integrated solutions that delight our customers

• Improve our Engineering process, including long-term thinking, sprint planning and stand-ups

• Build software that adheres to our high bar on stability and latency in this mission-critical space

• Work with the latest open source technologies

• Collaborate within the team to ensure we hit our goals, collaborate with other groups to ensure we build and ship the “right” thing

What You Bring

• 6+ years of industry experience shipping Android applications to the Google Play Store.

• Understand the ins and out of mobile phones; expected to lead mobile design reviews as well as the implementation of their designs to release and post-release monitoring

• Understanding and experience with networking protocols such as TCP, UDP, DHCP, DNS, Server-Sent-Events, Websockets (debugging with Wireshark or Charles a plus)

• Android experience with Retrofit, Coroutines, Okhttp, Hilt, Jetpack (Jetpack compose a plus)

• Experience with modern architecture (MVVM, MVI, etc) including unit testing

• Experience working with remote data via REST and JSON

• SDKs: experience related to Bluetooth, WiFi, Networking, Camera (Photo/Video), Audio, File Management, connecting to and interacting with third party hardware

• Experience working with video streaming and IoT devices / connectivity over BLE or Wifi

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The Pay

Axon is a total compensation company, meaning compensation is made up of base pay, bonus, and stock awards. The starting base pay for this role is between USD 120,000 in the lowest geographic market and USD 210,000 in the highest geographic market. The actual base pay is dependent upon many factors, such as: level, function, training, transferable skills, work experience, business needs, geographic market, and often a combination of all these factors. Our benefits offer an array of options to help support you physically, financially and emotionally through the big milestones and in your everyday life. To see more details on our benefits offerings please visit www.axon.com/careers/benefits (http://www.axon.com/careers/benefits).

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Don’t meet every single requirement? That's ok. At Axon, we Aim Far. We think big with a long-term view because we want to reinvent the world to be a safer, better place. We are also committed to building diverse teams that reflect the communities we serve.

Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they check every box in the job description. If you’re excited about this role and our mission to Protect Life but your experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification listed here, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

Important Notes

The above job description is not intended as, nor should it be construed as, exhaustive of all duties, responsibilities, skills, efforts, or working conditions associated with this job. The job description may change or be supplemented at any time in accordance with business needs and conditions.

Some roles may also require legal eligibility to work in a firearms environment.

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.

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 — and empowering all of our employees so they can do their best work. If you have a disability or special need that requires assistance or accommodation during the application or the recruiting process, please email . Please note that this email address is for accommodation purposes only. Axon will not respond to inquiries for other purposes.