Staff Software Engineer

Axios is a news company, and this is a hands-on staff-level individual contributor role leading architecture and delivery for its core products across several teams. The posting says plainly that it is not a people management job.

It is equally plain, at some length, about AI being central to how the team works: coding agents through implementation, testing, review, debugging, documentation and operations, with the engineer still accountable for architecture, quality, security and product outcomes. It also says staff impact comes from sustained scope and judgement rather than tool use, which is a useful thing to have written down. Around that, the responsibilities are conventional staff work: owning architecture for a product area across frontend, APIs, data and production systems, leading design reviews, driving multi-quarter initiatives, and improving testing, performance, observability and incident response.

Axios notes the band spans every possible US location and that an offer reflects the candidate's own. Remote within the United States.