Staff Backend Engineer, Flock Safety
Rails
$200-240k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$200-240k
+ Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- We are seeking an experienced and skilled Staff Rails Engineer with a deep knowledge of Ruby, Rails, and PostgreSQL
- To be right for this role, you should be a “manager of one” who excels both individually and on a team
- And because we’re a fully-remote team, you should be an excellent writer and asynchronous communicator
- The ideal candidate will have experience with framework-level development — knowledge of Rails internals. Preferably, you’re skilled in techniques for scaling Rails apps, especially apps that demand high performance and reliability
- 8+ years of PostgreSQL experience (querying and schema architecture)
- 8+ years of database architecture experience
- 12+ years of Rails development experience
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem solving and analytical skills
- A "manager of one" who is effective independently and on a team
- The ideal candidate will have experience that includes:
- Framework-level development — knowledge of Rails internals
- Techniques for scaling Rails apps
- Rails apps with components that demand especially high performance or reliability
- Rails apps that are not their database's only client
What the job involves
- This role involves architecture, backend Ruby programming, and honing the integrity and performance of a PostgreSQL database where Rails is not the only client
- As a leader on our engineering team, you will have the opportunity to collaborate with cross-functional teams, mentor other engineers, and drive innovation in our product offerings
- The First 30 Days:
- Meet the team & cross-functional stakeholders
- Become familiar with architecture
- One major cultural component within Flock’s engineering teams is the “first day push”. The first day push focuses setup and onboarding to the things that matter to deliver value
- The First 60 Days:
- Review database PRs
- Identify improvements to the platform architecture
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Implement architecture improvements
- Execute database optimization
Application process
- 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
- Engineering Manager Interview: You will meet with Engineering leadership to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. You should expect the interview will cover your product experience, guiding strategy, stakeholder communication, & launch experience. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field
- 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: An opportunity to meet leaders within the ML organization. They will be looking to get to know you better, understand your motivations, and understand your background. 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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