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Software Engineer
About this role
Axios is a growth-focused media company seeking a Full Stack Software Engineer. The role involves building the interfaces, services, APIs, and data flows behind Axios’ audience-facing products and publishing tools, using AI-native development practices throughout the lifecycle. The engineer will be accountable for architecture, quality, security, and product outcomes, working with product managers, designers, and engineers across disciplines. AI is a core part of development, with opportunities to apply models, agents, and automation to create value. The position emphasizes collaboration, reliability, and improving existing systems through thoughtful refactoring and experimentation.
What you would do
- Deliver high-quality features across frontend and backend systems using modern agentic development practices
- Develop accessible, responsive frontend interfaces with JavaScript/TypeScript, React, and Next.js or similar frameworks
- Build production services and APIs to support publishing workflows and ensure clear contracts for users and tools
- Identify opportunities for AI-enabled product development and implement capabilities with appropriate controls and guardrails
- Write automated tests and contribute to performance, logging, metrics, tracing, security, and reliability
- Collaborate with product, design, quality engineering, and other developers to clarify requirements and tradeoffs
- Participate in code reviews, pairing, onboarding, and mentorship
- Improve existing systems through refactoring and sound technical decisions aligned with product goals
- Understand how technical work supports readers and editorial workflows
- Use emerging engineering approaches thoughtfully to enhance product delivery
What they are asking for
- 2-5+ years of professional software development experience across frontend, backend, or full-stack
- Hands-on experience using AI-enabled coding tools to complete substantive software work
- Ability to write clear specifications and provide context for AI agents
- Ability to critically review AI-generated code and assess security and maintainability risks
- Experience with frontend development using JavaScript/TypeScript and React (preferably Next.js)
- Experience with backend development and production services or APIs (Go or Python familiarity preferred)
- Knowledge of relational databases, SQL, schema design, transactions, and migrations
- Experience with testing, accessibility, authentication/authorization, and web security practices
- Strong engineering judgment to balance AI-assisted and deterministic solutions
- Good communication to explain technical decisions to engineers and cross-functional partners
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