Flock Safety Engineer Opportunity

The Nova team is building a "single pane of glass" for investigators. The purpose is to connect the investigator to the many disparate sources of data they already have access to in order to make it easier to "connect the dots" and build a picture around their case work. The team needs another strong engineer to collaborate and contribute to the product as well as build stronger bindings to the overall Flock Software Platform.

Our engineers work directly with our customers and are able to react with high value and often real life impacting results. Flock believes that many facets of our work are "Better Together" and that infuses how we think about the various products we offer as well as how we work together individually and collectively. This provides a vast opportunity to work across multiple teams and skillsets and not only elevate the company but our engineers as well.

The Skillset

• Love for coding and a commitment to continuous learning.

• Resourceful problem-solver mindset, excelling in ambiguous situations and taking initiative.

• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company.

• Excitement about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.

• Confidence with TypeScript / Node / Express for web services and strong general API design skills. (e.g. REST, gRPC, GraphQL, etc)

• Confidence in a modern web framework like React / Typescript.

• Strong familiarity with relational databases, we primarily use PostgreSQL.

• Experience leveraging SQL to access and synthesize customer data, including from legacy relational database systems.

• Confidence in microservices and system design.

• Confidence with Docker for local development and remote deployment via Helm to Kubernetes.

• Experience with AWS managed services (e.g., S3, API Gateway, SNS/SQS).

• Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC patterns.

Feeling uneasy that you haven't ticked every box? That's okay; we've felt that way too. Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.

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 in this role at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days - Understand how and contribute in "Flock" way

• Meet with stakeholders

• Understand your role on the team

• Understand current processes and procedures (aka the Flock way)

• Have contributed or know how to contribute code to all repos owned by your team

• Asking questions in a public way to understand and spread knowledge; i.e., public slack channels, etc.

The First 60 Days - Get comfortable with influencing the teams

• Be able to perform the role with a decreased need for guidance

• Be able to complete ownership of medium-sized tasks with little support

• Possess a high-level understanding of the features we are working on

• Understand the software design philosophies being used

• Comfortable navigating through all owned code bases

• Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input

• Building strong relationships with your team members

90 Days & Beyond - Establish your ownership of your work

• Demonstrating strong communication skills and owning the full lifecycle of your work

• 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

• Be on at least 1 customer call within your 90 days

• Have a sense of where you want to grow at Flock

The Interview 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.

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. The Design Assessment: Our design assessments seek to test how you approach solutions conceptually from small to large. We expect our senior engineers to be the guards of scope, so they need to be able to push on simplicity when they can but also size confidently when the requirements push for something more sophisticated.

5. 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.

6. 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.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you'll receive a starting salary between $170,000 and $185,000 as well as Flock Safety Stock Options.

The Perks

Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.

Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.

Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.

Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2025, Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support.

Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity