Flock Safety · 2 days ago
Senior Software Engineer, Real Time
United States
Full-time
Remote
Senior Level
$171K/yr - $190K/yrFlock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. The Senior Software Engineer will join the Real-Time team to tackle complex technical challenges, build client-facing products, and deliver high-impact results.
ManufacturingPublic SafetySecuritySensor
Responsibilities
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 spread knowledge; i.e., public slack channels, etc
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
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
Qualification
Required
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
Passionate about staying up to date with latest web technologies
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 - we leverage React with Typescript
Familiar with various data stores and know how to interact with them. Confident in PostgreSQL
Experience with observability and monitoring tools (DataDog, Grafana) and WebSocket protocols; proficient in deploying applications to Kubernetes clusters using Helm
Familiar with AWS and have used some managed services like S3, API Gateway, SQS, etc
Ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment
Meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check
Benefits
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. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.
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.
ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
Productivity 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.
Company
Flock Safety
Flock Safety provides end-to-end surveillance solutions to support law enforcement and communities.
Founded in 2017
1001-5000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
Flock Safety has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
guarantee sponsorship for this specific role. Below presents additional info for your
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2024 (1)
2022 (2)
2021 (2)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$655.58MKey Investors
Andreessen HorowitzTiger Global ManagementMeritech Capital Partners
2025-03-13Series F· $275M
2022-02-15Series E· $150M
2021-07-13Series D· $150M
Leadership Team
Garrett Langley
Founder & CEO
Mandy Schuler
Vice President Supply Chain
Recent News
Press Telegram
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