Axios - Software Engineer

• The ideal candidate is a thoughtful engineer who cares about reliability, scalability, and writing clean, maintainable code. You should have: • Experience: 2–5+ years in backend or full-stack development, with hands-on experience in Golang and/or Python. • API expertise: Strong understanding of designing and consuming RESTful APIs. • API expertise: • Databases: Familiarity with relational databases (e.g., Postgres, MySQL) and ORMs (e.g., Gin, Django) • Databases: • Testing: Experience with unit and integration testing in Golang and/or Python, and a mindset of embedding quality into development. • Testing: • Performance & scalability: Awareness of common patterns for scaling backend services and optimizing performance. • Performance & scalability: • AI tooling: Comfort using tools like GitHub Copilot or Claude Clode as part of your day-to-day workflow. • AI tooling: • Collaboration: Excellent communication skills and the ability to work cross-functionally in an agile environment. • Collaboration: • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, or similar). • Experience with gRPC services. • Familiarity with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes). • Experience working with observability and monitoring tools (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Honeycomb). • Knowledge of authentication, authorization, and security best practices. • Experience with performance testing or load testing of backend services. • What success looks like: • Reliable systems: You build services that are stable, scalable, and meet the needs of Axios’ products and readers. • Reliable systems: • Quality code: You write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code that reduces defects and simplifies future development. • Quality code: • Collaboration: You work closely with teammates across front-end, product, and QE to deliver features efficiently and effectively. • Collaboration: • AI-driven efficiency: You integrate AI tools into your workflow to accelerate development, improve code quality, and continuously learn. • AI-driven efficiency: • Performance focus: You monitor and improve backend performance, ensuring services are fast and resilient. • Performance focus: • Continuous growth: You sharpen your skills, share knowledge with teammates, and contribute to improving Axios’ engineering practices. • Continuous growth: • Starting salary for this role is in the range of $130,000 - $165,000 and is dependent on numerous factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, and skills. This range does not include other compensation benefits. Axios' compensation philosophy takes into account the cost of labor differentials across the country. Because this is a remote-optional job posting, this salary range takes into account all possible locations within the United States, but candidates will only be eligible for the salary range for their location. • Axios is committed to embracing artificial intelligence as a core part of how we work. All team members are expected to actively develop AI literacy and use AI tools to enhance their productivity, creativity, and efficiency. We invest in ongoing learning to ensure every employee is equipped to responsibly and effectively integrate AI into their daily workflows. • What Axios brings to the table besides salary: • 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