Staff Software Engineer

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $165k - $215k / year

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Axios

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

📣 Marketing

📱 Media

Consulting • Marketing • Media

Axios is a media company that delivers news and insights through various platforms, including newsletters, local news outlets, and exclusive content for professionals. It covers a broad range of topics such as politics, policy, business, technology, health, and energy, providing in-depth reporting and analysis. By focusing on quick, concise, and powerful stories, Axios aims to make news more accessible and engaging for its audience. Its offerings include free daily newsletters like Axios AM and Axios Pro, as well as events and live discussions.

📋 Description

• Lead mission-critical or high-risk initiatives spanning teams and connected systems • Frame problems, align ownership and dependencies, make tradeoffs explicit, and drive production adoption • Own architecture for a product area and scalable boundaries across frontend, APIs, data, and production systems • Lead design reviews and establish standards within the sphere of influence • Write and review code, prototype, debug, lead migrations, and operate services in production • Identify where models, agents, retrieval, or automation create value and build reusable capabilities with measurable behavior and guardrails • Improve testing, performance, observability, security, and operational readiness • Anticipate systemic risks, address technical debt, and help lead resolution and learning during critical production issues • Mentor mid- and senior-level engineers across teams and spread systems thinking and design patterns • Partner with product, design, and engineering leaders to shape product-area roadmaps and align dependencies • Connect technical investment to reader, editorial, and business outcomes • Drive multi-quarter initiatives from problem framing through production adoption • Establish safe, repeatable AI patterns where they add value and improve system reliability, scalability, security, observability, and changeability

🎯 Requirements

• Typically 7+ years in professional software development, or equivalent sustained Staff-level impact, including leading complex initiatives across multiple teams or systems • Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or comparable tools for meaningful, multi-step software work • Ability to write clear strategies, specifications, and acceptance criteria; provide context; scope complex work; decide what to delegate; and redirect incomplete or incorrect approaches • Ability to critically review AI-generated code, validate assumptions, identify security, scalability, and maintainability risks, and catch plausible but wrong solutions • Hands-on experience building production interfaces with JavaScript or TypeScript and React; preferably Next.js • Hands-on experience building production services and APIs; ability to work effectively in or learn Go or Python • Experience with relational databases, SQL, schema design, transactions, and migrations • Experience with testing, accessibility, input validation, authentication, authorization, and web security practices • Ability to operate independently in ambiguity, identify high-leverage problems, align teams, make sound tradeoffs, and connect decisions to product and business goals • Ability to build alignment through clear proposals and reasoning, communicate risks and tradeoffs across functions, and drive clarity during disagreement • Curiosity about changing models, tools, and practices, paired with an evidence-based approach • Commitment to user experience, reliability, scalability, maintainable code, and effective AI-enabled practice

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) with employer match • Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network • Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option • Dental and vision coverage • Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave • Birth-givers will have an additional 6-8 weeks depending on type of delivery, for a total of 18-20 weeks continuous leave • Generous vacation policy, plus holidays • One mental health day per quarter • Annual learning and development stipend • $100 monthly work-from-home stipend • Tele-mental health services through Headspace • OneMedical membership, including tele-health services • Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate • Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility • Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies • Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers • Virtual company-sponsored social events • A strong and positive work environment • A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture