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$130,000 – $165,000
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What this role is
Axios seeks a full-stack engineer to build and scale the news platform's core products, with a strong emphasis on using AI coding agents throughout the development lifecycle. The role pairs traditional software fundamentals—frontend, backend, and data work—with modern AI-native practices, and suits mid-level engineers who've moved beyond snippets to using agents for substantial, multi-step work.
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What they ask for
Required
- 2–5+ years professional software development experience
- Production experience in frontend, backend, or full-stack development
- Hands-on use of agentic coding tools for multi-step work
- Ability to write clear specifications and guide AI agents
- Critical review of AI-generated code for security and maintainability
- Production frontend experience with JavaScript or TypeScript and React
- Production backend experience building services and APIs
- Relational database and SQL experience
- Unit and integration testing experience
- Authentication, authorization, and web security knowledge
- Engineering judgment to own scoped work and navigate ambiguity
- Clear communication of technical decisions and tradeoffs
Nice to have
- Production experience building AI-enabled features with models, structured outputs, tool calling, or agents
- Experience evaluating AI systems through regression tests, monitoring, and feedback loops
- Experience extending AI development environments through MCP servers or custom tools
- Production experience with Go or Python
- gRPC, Protocol Buffers, or service-oriented architecture experience
- Cloud infrastructure, containers, orchestration, or CI/CD experience
- Caching, background jobs, queues, or asynchronous processing experience
- CMS, publishing, media, subscription, or consumer-facing product experience
- Production system observability, performance optimization, or accessibility testing experience