Software Engineer
Axios
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1 big thing: Axios is a growth-focused media company dedicated to helping people get smarter, faster, on what matters. We’re looking for a Full Stack Software Engineer who pairs strong product-engineering fundamentals with modern AI-native development practices to build and scale the systems and experiences that power Axios’ core products. Why it matters: At Axios, we deliver clear, trustworthy, and informative news to millions of readers every day. As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you’ll build the interfaces, services, APIs, and data flows behind our audience-facing products and publishing tools. AI has become a core part of how we build software. You’ll use coding agents and other AI tools throughout the development lifecycle—from understanding problems and exploring solutions through implementation, testing, review, debugging, documentation, and operation. You’ll remain accountable for the architecture, quality, security, and product outcomes of everything you ship. You’ll work with product managers, designers, and engineers across disciplines to build resilient systems that embody Axios’ commitment to clarity and make our readers smarter. Responsibilities: As a Full Stack Software Engineer, you’ll deliver high-quality, reliable product features across Axios’ frontend and backend systems, using modern agentic development practices to accelerate delivery and ensuring performance and stability across our publishing and delivery platforms. Key responsibilities include: End-to-end feature development: Own features across the frontend, APIs, business logic, data layer, testing, and production systems. Turn product problems into clear technical plans and reviewable units of work, using AI agents thoughtfully across research, prototyping, implementation, testing, refactoring, and documentation. Frontend development: Create accessible, responsive, and maintainable interfaces using JavaScript or TypeScript, React, and modern web frameworks such as Next.js. Backend and API development: Build production services and APIs that support Axios’ products and publishing workflows, and create clear contracts that can be understood and used reliably by people, applications, and AI-powered tools. AI-enabled product development: Identify opportunities where models, agents, retrieval, or intelligent automation can create meaningful value for readers or internal teams. Build those capabilities with clear user controls, measurable behavior, appropriate guardrails, and an understanding of when conventional software is the better solution. Quality and reliability: Write automated tests, improve performance, and contribute to logging, metrics, tracing, security, and operational reliability. Collaboration: Partner with product, design, quality engineering, and other developers to clarify requirements, explain tradeoffs, and deliver effectively. Participate in code reviews, pairing, onboarding, and mentorship. Product and technical improvement: Understand how technical work supports readers, editorial workflows, and business goals.Improve existing systems through thoughtful refactoring, sound technical decisions, and practical experimentation with emerging engineering approaches. Skills: The ideal candidate is a thoughtful engineer who cares about user experience, reliability, scalability, and maintainable code—and who has moved beyond occasional AI assistance to using agents as a substantive part of their engineering practice. You should have: Experience: 2-5+ years of professional software development experience, with production experience in frontend, backend, or full-stack development and the ability to contribute across the stack. AI-native development: Hands-on experience using agentic coding tools—such as Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, GitHub Copilot, or comparable tools—to complete meaningful, multi-step software work, rather than only generating snippets or using autocomplete. Agent direction and context: Ability to write clear specifications…
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