# Staff Software Engineer at AXIOS Media

- Company: AXIOS Media
- What the company does: Axios is a new media company delivering vital, trustworthy news and analysis in the most efficient, illuminating, and shareable ways possible. Backed by Greycroft.
- Company website: https://axios.com
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $165K to $215K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-23
- Apply by: 2026-11-07
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/axios/jobs/8229298
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/axios-media-staff-software-engineer/

## 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

Tags: Product, Design & Tech