Axios is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating, and shareable ways possible. Backed by Greycroft.
About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead reliable product and platform work across Axios’ frontend and backend systems. You’ll remain hands-on while driving multi-quarter initiatives, improving technical coherence, and using agentic practices to accelerate delivery. Key responsibilities include:
What they're looking for
- Experience: Typically 7+ years in professional software development, or equivalent sustained Staff-level impact, including leading complex initiatives across multiple teams or systems
- Agent direction and context: Ability to write clear strategies, specifications, and acceptance criteria, provide context, scope complex work, decide what to delegate, and redirect incomplete or incorrect approaches
- Frontend development: Hands-on experience building production interfaces with JavaScript or TypeScript and React, preferably with Next.js, plus judgment to guide frontend architecture across teams
- Data fundamentals: Experience with relational databases, SQL, schema design, transactions, and migrations
- Quality and security: Experience with testing, accessibility, input validation, authentication, authorization, and web security practices, plus the ability to raise standards across teams
- Communication: Ability to build alignment through clear proposals and reasoning, communicate risks and tradeoffs across functions, and drive clarity during disagreement
More about this role
1 big thing: Axios is a growth-focused media company helping people get smarter, faster, on what matters. We’re looking for a Staff Software Engineer—a senior, hands-on individual contributor—to lead architecture and delivery for Axios’ core products across multiple teams using strong product-engineering and AI-native practices.
Why it matters: Axios delivers clear, trustworthy news to millions of readers. You’ll be anchored to a product area while shaping full-stack systems and technical direction across multiple teams and connected systems. This is not a people-management role.
AI is core to how we build. You’ll use coding agents throughout implementation, testing, review, debugging, documentation, and operations while remaining accountable for architecture, quality, security, and product outcomes. Staff impact comes from sustained scope, judgment, and results—not tool use alone.
You’ll work with product managers, designers, engineers, and leaders to shape plans, align dependencies, resolve ambiguity, build resilient systems, and help others make better technical decisions.
As a Staff Software Engineer, you’ll lead reliable product and platform work across Axios’ frontend and...
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