Software Engineer, Flock
Planner
$142-165k
Offers equity
Public safety operating system
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Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$142-165k
Offers equity
1001+ employees
Company mission
To create safer, happier communities and cities by pre-emptively fighting crime.
Role
Who you are
- 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
- Feeling uneasy that you haven’t ticked every box? That’s okay; we’ve felt that way too. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day
What the job involves
- With the exponential growth of live devices, we need a seasoned Software Engineer who can help build, maintain, and scale the planner services at Flock that help us continue to grow
- As part of the planner team you’ll be responsible for helping the team track, build and scale planning tools for our deployment specialists, customers and solutions consultants
- We provide plenty of growth opportunities and continuous learning
- We encourage iterating at a very fast pace, being decisive and collaborating
- 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 at Flock Safety
- The First 30 Days
- Meet with colleagues!
- Understand current processes and procedures
- Work on tasks for the sprint with support
- Work towards understanding how planner services at Flock work
- Understand your role on the team and expectations
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc
- The First 60 Days
- Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance
- Able to complete features with little support
- Understand the software design philosophies being used
- Be comfortable navigating through the code base
- Engaged during technical conversations to increase quality of input
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Understand what works well, limitations, missing metrics, etc and start providing feedback
- Build relationships with team members
- 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
- Contributing ideas for how we build better software and help refine the team’s plan
- Contributing regularly to sprint process
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months
- Have a sense of where you want to grow at Flock
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
- 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 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 builds technology systems that provide a means for smaller law enforcement agencies to quantify and share surveillance data easily. The company has raised strong funding to support the expansion of its manufacturing capabilities. But it has also faced a large dose of backlash from groups and individuals who are concerned about its capability for mass surveillance and the privacy of the data it collects.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 10 rounds)
Mar 2025
$275m
LATE VC
Mar 2024
$200m
SERIES G
Total funding: $857.8m
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
(Founder & 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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