Software Engineering Manager, Flock Safety
Planning
$200-220k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$200-220k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Experience leading and managing engineering teams, including agile processes (like scrum), resource management, and project management
- Ability to understand software design principles, navigate code bases, and participate in technical conversations
- Strategic thinking to contribute to roadmapping, goal planning, and identifying dependencies
- Strong communication skills, both within the team and across other teams, to solve problems and provide feedback
- Problem-solving abilities to understand, prioritize, and address both planned and unplanned tasks
- Adaptability and willingness to learn current processes and procedures in a fast-paced environment
- Enjoys coding and staying up-to-date with the latest software development practices
What the job involves
- We're looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our Planner team. This role offers the chance to take immediate ownership of key responsibilities, including guiding the team's agile processes like scrum meetings, managing engineering resources, and collaborating closely with Product on strategic roadmapping and planning
- You'll be instrumental in shaping the direction and execution of our Planner product. Furthermore, you will have the unique opportunity to explore and contribute to early-stage initiatives involving drones and leveraging AI for intelligent deployment planning. This is a chance to be at the forefront of innovation in public safety technology
- 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 in this role at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Meet with stakeholders
- Understand your role on the team
- Understand current processes and procedures (aka the Flock way)
- Build technical trust with your direct reports
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e., public slack channels, etc
- The First 60 Days
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance
- Take ownership of team responsibilities including meetings and project management
- High-level understanding of current projects, goals, roadmap, and support processes
- Understand the software design principles used by the team
- Be able to navigate the team's code bases and understand their high-level responsibilities
- Actively participate in technical conversations to improve input quality
- Serve as the main point of contact for all items owned by the team
- 90 Days & Beyond
- Understand and prioritize planned and unplanned tasks, and collaborate with project management as needed
- Understand career paths and team member development
- Perform the role with minimal guidance and with transparency
- Actively participate in roadmap and goal planning
- Communicate effectively across teams to solve problems
- Identify potential dependencies that may impact teams
- Contribute ideas for software improvement
- Provide constructive feedback to team members, and understand their strengths and areas for growth
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 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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