Senior Software Engineer, Flock Safety
Investigate
$150-200k
+ Stock options
JSON
Senior level
Remote in US
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Open for applications
$150-200k
+ Stock options
JSON
Senior level
Remote in US
501-1000 employees
B2BSecurityMachine LearningCommunity
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- A successful candidate will quickly learn our data storage landscape and be comfortable working independently and as part of a team to implement changes to our core system
- Have experience working on search-related features/architecture. Understanding how different databases work will be key in building the next generation of search
- Data modeling (relational, document, graph)
- Storage Retrieval (Hash Indexes, SSTables, LSM-Trees, B-Trees)
- Encoding (JSON, xml, binary - protocol buffers)
- Replication and Partitioning
- Transactions Distributed Systems
- Comfortable taking on a large scope of work and making architectural decisions
- Background in building scalable, cloud-based solutions
- Familiarity with search-oriented tooling and technologies
- Be excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product
What the job involves
- 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 sharing data systems
- This role is crucial for addressing performance and scaling challenges, resolving technical debt, and modernizing legacy datastores
- 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:
- 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
- D&D Realtime, D&D 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
- Participate in reviewing teammates' code with an eye towards learning current practices and offering your unique perspective
- Compete a first day push to production
- Participate in all DDI 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 to search related metrics or observability
- Ability to complete larger tasks, spanning multiple repositories with less assistance
- Prioritize reviewing PRs submitted by your teammates, both to learn our existing patterns and practices and push your peers to use stronger patterns
- Establish a habit of running code locally when reviewing PRs that are higher impact or major rewrites. Push for changes and infrastructure that makes this easier for all to accomplish
- 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
- Present recent work in a video demo to be shared with other teams
- Author an architecture document for a major new feature our team is building
- Or-
- Review multiple architecture docs and push for strong patterns, question assumptions, ensure clear vision is articulated
- Participate in one or more customer calls
- Propose a solution to a user experience problem you have observed
- Be aware of newer best practices around the engineering organization and consistently encourage peers to adopt and adhere to these in PR reviews
- Complete a device installation ride-along
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 in your function 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
Top investors
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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