Senior Software Engineer, Flock
Backend
$171-200k
+ Equity
Public safety operating system
Open for applications
Public safety operating system
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$171-200k
+ Equity
1001+ 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 Senior Software Engineer with a deep understanding of Golang, distributed backend systems, 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 designing and scaling production-grade Go applications, building microservices and APIs, and tuning systems for high performance and reliability
- 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience (querying, schema design, and performance tuning)
- 3+ years of database architecture experience
- 8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 4+ years using Go in production
- Building scalable, high-performance Go microservices
- Proficiency with message queues, pub/sub systems, or event-driven architectures
- Deep knowledge of Go internals and concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, sync primitives)
- Expertise in profiling and optimizing Go applications for latency and throughput
- Understanding of Go memory management, profiling, and performance optimization
- Designing REST and gRPC APIs consumed by multiple clients and services
- Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana)
- Experience in CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- 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
- This role involves architecture, backend Go development, and honing the integrity and performance of a PostgreSQL database where Go services are not the only clients
- As a senior member of our engineering team, you will have the opportunity to build performant, reliable backend systems, contribute to architectural discussions, and deliver features that matter
- The First 30 Days:
- Understand team workflows and processes
- Meet with key stakeholders
- Understand Aviation products and service architecture
- The First 60 Days:
- Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance
- Participate in API and service architecture reviews
- Contribute to platform architecture improvements and code quality initiatives
- 90 Days & Beyond:
- Support platform improvements and scalability projects
- Lead a database and service performance optimization effort
- Act as a technical lead for a mid-sized Go microservice project
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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