Senior Backend Software Engineer, Flock Safety
$171-190k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$171-190k
+ Equity in the form of stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Love writing code and have extensive experience doing so
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in customer-facing communications
- Able to organize, keep track, and deliver multiple projects in parallel
- Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services
- Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale – We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time
- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack
- Proficiency in writing, optimizing, and troubleshooting complex SQL queries for data extraction, transformation, and integration
- Proficiency with relational database systems (especially PostgreSQL and Microsoft SQL Server) and a solid understanding of database design principles
- Experience in integrating and syncing data between disparate systems, including resolving data format inconsistencies
- Understanding of on-premise networks, including firewalls, VPNs, and network configurations, to ensure seamless system communication and data transfer
- Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, Redis (use the right tool for the job)
- Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
- Ability to work cross-functionally with internal and external engineering and product teams
- The ideal candidate will have experience with CAD systems and databases
What the job involves
- The platform integrations team is seeking a seasoned Senior Software Engineer to support the rapid expansion of our workload
- Our software continues to reach more customers, with new partnerships and integrations on our roadmap
- To keep momentum, we need to keep integrating with various data sources that show real-time contextual information on the web, mobile, and through our APIs
- The team integrates public safety systems of all sorts, including computer-assisted-dispatch (CAD), 911 live calls, automated vehicle locator (AVL), vehicle hotlists, and other alerts as well as contributing to our developer hub with a growing list of APIs for developers
- The First 30 Days
- Meet with your teammates and stakeholders!
- Understand current processes and procedures
- Work on minor tasks for the sprint with support
- Work towards understanding how integrations at Flock work
- Collaborate with additional teams to gain context on how integrations fit into the overall system
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge
- The First 60 Days
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance
- Ability to complete medium-sized tasks with little support
- Possess a high-level understanding of the features we are working on
- Understand the software design philosophies being used
- Comfortable navigating through the code base
- Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Able to explain each of the integration services’ purpose
- Identify 3-5 ideas of where you see risk (stability, features, process, etc)
- 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
- Contributing ideas for how we build better software
- Contributing valuable feedback in PR reviews
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
Application process
- Deadline to apply: 20 June 2025 at 05:00 BST
- We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative
- Hroughout 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 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 in your function 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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