Senior Software Engineer, Flock Safety

• 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
• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company
• Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product
• Familiar with Typescript (Node) as web services in addition to general API design
• Confident in a modern web framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc). We leverage React with Typescript
• Familiar with various data stores and know how to interact with them. Confident in SQL
• Familiar with Docker and how to run locally and deploy remotely via Helm to Kubernetes
• Familiar with AWS and have used some managed services like S3, API Gateway, SQS, etc
• Experience working on search-related features/architecture. Ability to query large data sets from different backends and services, stitching together results

Desirable

• The Investigate Team develops essential applications that enable customers to engage with Flock’s mission to eliminate crime effectively. We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our team to build and maintain our search and auditing data systems.
• This role is crucial for addressing performance and scaling challenges, resolving technical debt, and modernizing legacy codebases.
• A successful candidate will quickly learn our frontend and backend application stack, bring fresh ideas for improving performance, maintainability and user experience in our search application
• The First 30 Days:
• Familiarize yourself with the company's mission, products, and development processes
• Pair with each engineer on the team to learn about a service we own, and get to know your teammates better
• Build relationships with key stakeholders in the cloud software organization to understand their needs and expectations. Meeting with a member of the following teams: Data Engineering, Realtime, Admin, Platform/Pipeline, Mobile
• Evaluate the current search and sharing applications to identify performance, scaling, and data modeling issues
• Review existing codebase, architecture, and infrastructure to gain a deep understanding of the system
• Compete a first day push to production
• Participate in all scrum ceremonies, picking up sprint tickets and working on delivering completed code with assistance from your teammates
• The First 60 Days:
• Learn the details of our deployment, monitoring and logging stacks, and suggest improvements
• Ability to complete larger tasks, spanning multiple repositories with less assistance
• Help teach a skill or introduce a new development practice with your teammates
• 90 Days & Beyond:
• Represent our team on a cross-functional team project, delivering the needed solutions to support a new feature, and communicate back to your manager and the team any necessary updates
• Participate in one or more customer calls

• 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