Axios

Full-stack Engineer

• 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

Staff Software Engineer