Senior Android Systems Engineer, Flock Safety
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
SQL
Python
Android
Kotlin
C
Jenkins
Grafana
Git
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Open for applications
$150-190k
+ Equity (stock options)
SQL
Python
Android
Kotlin
C
Jenkins
Grafana
Git
Senior and Expert level
Remote in US
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Proficiency in C, Python, Kotlin, and SQL
- Solid experience in Android application development and embedded systems
- Expertise with performance and power analysis tools such as Android Studio Profiler, Systrace, Perfetto, and Battery Historian
- Experience with debugging and troubleshooting performance issues, including profiling resource usage and system bottlenecks
- Knowledge of version control and code collaboration tools such as Git/GitHub and Gerrit
- Hands-on experience with test automation frameworks and integrating tests into CI pipelines
- Experience in creating and maintaining test infrastructure in a lab environment
- Familiarity with lab equipment like multimeters and oscilloscopes for validating measurement accuracy
What the job involves
- As Flock scales up its next-generation products, there is a growing need to expand our testing infrastructure to focus more on power and performance benchmarking
- Our products must be optimized to scale effectively and meet customer expectations
- This role will extend the Systems team's capabilities by supporting the buildout of essential E2E tests for benchmarking the performance, power, and reliability of our products, while also implementing the necessary device-side measurements and self-reporting
- Working directly with our Quality Assurance team, this role will ensure that the right tests and automation are in place to detect regressions and identify further improvements to enhance our products
- Develop and maintain end-to-end automated test suites to benchmark power, performance, and reliability
- Instrument software to capture and analyze performance and power measurement points
- Implement device-side measurements to track power consumption and resource usage
- Identify and debug performance bottlenecks across software and hardware layers
- Design and deploy real-time dashboards using Grafana for monitoring key performance and power metrics
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to optimize power consumption and resource usage in embedded systems
- Manage and integrate test automation within CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins
- We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Senior Android Systems Engineer at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Gain an in-depth understanding of Flock’s devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements
- Familiarize yourself with the device software architecture
- Connect with members of the Framework, Applications, and Quality teams
- Understand the goals for Systems test automation, including power measurements and resource usage
- The First 60 Days
- Introduce a test suite for benchmarking resource usage across OS and Apps releases
- Identify initial opportunities for performance optimizations in next-generation products
- Update power consumption tests to automate power measurements
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Take ownership of the power and performance test suites for our devices
- Implement quality gates necessary for software releases to prevent regressions
- Define thresholds for device-level alarms to detect potential field failures
- Begin implementing identified performance optimizations
Application process
- We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way
- Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are
- The Technical Assessment: You will meet with a potential future coworker to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. You should expect the interview will cover the hard skills required to do the job, an architectural discussion, and an exploration of your past accomplishments and experiences. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. You will meet with several teammates and cross-functional partners. Engineers should expect a technical assessment through coding interviews or architecture discussions. Your recruiter will provide more details to ensure you are fully prepared for your big day
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet a leader within the Device Software team. They will be looking to get to know you better, understand your motivations, and understand your technical background. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more
Our take
Public vehicle surveillance provides valuable insights to emergency services for the prevention of crime, but bringing information together to create leads is difficult. There's no standardised system for inter-city vehicle surveillance, and this makes it difficult for communities and law enforcement services to work together.
Flock Safety provides surveillance equipment that aims to improve the abilities of law enforcement and homeowner associations to communicate data with each other. The company focuses on vehicle surveillance, innovating on existing technology by using machine learning to categorise vehicles by color, license plate, state, and other data points.
Whilst automated surveillance equipment is used daily within federal police forces, Flock Safety builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. This data can then be automatically processed to help develop leads, a time-consuming process that would usually have to be completed manually.
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Insights
Top investors
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $382.7m
Company benefits
- 🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
- ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match
- 👪Family Leave: We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers
- 🍼Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility
- 🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace
- 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
- 💸Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions
- 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home
- 📚L&D Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more
- 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office
- 🏢Coworking Space: If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area)
- 🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies
Company values
- Embrace change to grow - The only “status quo” at Flock Safety are the outdated systems we plan to disrupt. Our employees know the importance of scaling a business that can continue to serve our growing number of customers and communities. We make a plan, but pivot for the greater good.
- Do the work - We value bias towards action and share a strong commitment to solving problems quickly. No task is beneath any of us, and we always go above and beyond to make communities safer.
- Optimism with a plan - Our teams and leaders set lofty goals, but not without thorough planning and sustained accountability. Here at Flock, you contribute to a positive and supportive workplace while benefiting from a high-performance culture.
- Protect the whole community - Our job at Flock is to positively impact all citizens of a community. Our technology impacts millions of lives of people we will never meet, and that is a serious responsibility.
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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Leadership
Garrett Langley
(CEO)They worked in Computer Services freelance for over 6 years before joining Firethorn in 2015, and Clutch Technologies in 2014. They left their position as President of Moment LLC to found Flock Safety in April 2017.
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