Software Engineer, Flock Safety
Android Mobile
$125-170k
+ Stock options
Public safety operating system
Be an early applicant
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$125-170k
+ Stock options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- Proficient with Android native apps in Kotlin
- Knowledge of Jetpack Compose is a plus
- Experience working with IoT technologies (wifi, bluetooth)
- Experience with modern Android architecture patterns
- A proven ability to build prototypes and take a data-driven approach to product development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly
- Consumer empathy, desire and ability to understand the world the Technicians live in and how to improve it
What the job involves
- With the Installer app installing and maintaining thousands of devices a week, we need an Android Engineer III who can support and improve our mobile application
- Flock also plans to bring multiple new devices to market, each with their own customized installation processes, which will live in this application
- This opportunity is perfect for a talented android developer who has consumer empathy and wants to work on a project that will directly impact Flock’s growth metrics and ultimate success
- 90 Days at Flock
- 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 Software Engineer Flock Safety
- 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
- Understand current processes and procedures
- Review PR practices
- Walkthrough of Installer app
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, update READMEs
- 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
- Smaller PRs are preferred!
- High level understanding of the features we are working on
- Manage a release of the Installer app
- Participate and comment on PRs
- Understand the software design philosophies being used
- Be comfortable navigating through the code base
- Engaged during technical conversation to increase quality of input
- Contribute to pointing stories in refinement
- Start monitoring of logs and dashboards
- 90 Days & Beyond
- 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
- 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
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
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Feb 2022
$150m
SERIES E
Jul 2021
$150m
SERIES D
Total funding: $382.7m
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 values
- Embrace change to grow - The only “status quo” at Flock Safety are the outdated systems we plan to disrupt. Our employees know the importance of scaling a business that can continue to serve our growing number of customers and communities. We make a plan, but pivot for the greater good.
- Do the work - We value bias towards action and share a strong commitment to solving problems quickly. No task is beneath any of us, and we always go above and beyond to make communities safer.
- Optimism with a plan - Our teams and leaders set lofty goals, but not without thorough planning and sustained accountability. Here at Flock, you contribute to a positive and supportive workplace while benefiting from a high-performance culture.
- Protect the whole community - Our job at Flock is to positively impact all citizens of a community. Our technology impacts millions of lives of people we will never meet, and that is a serious responsibility.
Company HQ
Home Park, Atlanta, GA
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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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