Senior Front End Software Engineer, Flock
$170-215k
Plus equity
Public safety operating system
Job no longer available
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$170-215k
Plus equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Frontend Developer
- Love writing code and continue learning to do it better
- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack
- Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
- Experience with front-end development tools such as Webpack, NPM, etc
- Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
- Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable front-end code using TypeScript, Next.js and ReactJS
- Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and translate them into user-friendly interfaces
- Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
- Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews to ensure best practices
What the job involves
- The Aviation team is focused on building the next generation of DFR (Drone as First Responder) software and hardware solutions
- The team needs another strong software engineer to contribute to these solutions
- Our engineers get direct feedback from our customers and are able to react for high-impact results
- We provide the tools to configure the benefits of Flock and, therefore, provide lots of growth opportunities in a highly visible, high-growth organization
- We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 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 Software Engineer at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Gain access to repositories, design systems, and CI/CD pipelines
- Set up the local development environment and run the application
- Understand the project structure, component architecture, and state management
- Join stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives
- Meet with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to understand workflows
- Participate in code reviews to understand best practices
- The First 60 Days
- Develop a new UI component or page, ensuring responsiveness and performance
- Implement global state management solutions like Redux
- Optimize API calls using Next.js API routes or caching techniques
- Identify and fix slow-loading pages using Next.js performance tools
- Reduce JavaScript bundle size using code splitting and lazy loading
- Contribute to frontend documentation or improve design system components
- Provide feedback on UI/UX designs and suggest improvements
- Mentor junior developers or onboard new team members
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Refactor legacy components to modern React patterns (Server Components, Suspense)
- Improve code reusability by enhancing the component library
- Implement TypeScript best practices to catch bugs early
- Propose improvements for CI/CD processes (e.g., automated testing, preview deployments)
- Enhance accessibility (a11y) compliance and improve Lighthouse scores
- Research and suggest the adoption of new frontend tools or libraries
- Work with product managers and designers to shape better user experiences
- Lead a knowledge-sharing session on Next.js optimizations or frontend trends
- Set goals for the next 6 months (e.g., migration plans, design system improvements)
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 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 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 builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. The company has raised strong funding to support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. But it has also faced a large dose of backlash from groups and individuals who are concerned about its capability for mass surveillance and the privacy of the data it collects.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
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
(Founder & 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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