Senior Backend Engineer, Flock Safety
Mobile
$170-190k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-190k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- This opportunity is perfect for a talented cloud developer who has consumer empathy and wants to work on a project that will directly impact Flock’s growth metrics and ultimate success
- Experience in back-end development with an emphasis on cloud development and distributed systems - we leverage AWS
- Implemented and managed asynchronous messaging systems for event-driven architectures (SQS/SNS, EventBridge, etc)
- Knowledgeable with SQL databases (PostgreSQL)
- Able to improve scalability and performance as we continue to grow
- Comfortable working with C-style languages and frameworks like TypeScript and NodeJS
- Familiarity with integrating 3rd-party APIs
- Prior work with native Mobile development or Golang a plus
What the job involves
- As a Senior Engineer working on the Flock Safety Mobile App API, you will be tasked with supporting and improving our mobile experiences
- By improving the performance, scalability, and security of our products, you will directly impact the core growth metrics of the company
- Flock’s APIs span a wide variety of domains, allowing for a broad experience with various cloud technologies
- The First 30 Days:
- Day 1 Impact: You will be busy onboarding today but we always like to have each employee have a “first day push of code.” It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be huge, just important to start and finish something quickly
- Walkthrough of Flock Safety app backend
- Walkthrough of Flock Safety iOS app
- Walkthrough of Flock Safety Android app
- Complete six tickets in the first 30 days
- Review PR practices
- Begin working on CJIS certification
- The First 60 Days
- Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance
- Take ownership of tasks
- Come up with options of solutions instead of “what should I do?”
- Able to complete medium sized tasks with little support
- Contribute work in small shippable chunks
- High level understanding of the features we are working on
- Write up at least one ticket
- Understand the software design philosophies being used
- Be comfortable navigating through the code base
- Engaged during technical conversations to increase quality of input
- Start monitoring of logs and dashboards
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Acceleration in ramp up time when working on a new ticket
- Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency
- Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity
- Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
- Contribute ideas in Design Reviews and Refinements, for how we build better software
- Starting to lead in PR reviews
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
Application process
- 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 Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day
- 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. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners
- The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive and view Flock from a different lens. 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.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.7m
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 HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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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