Software Engineer III (Planner)

Who is Flock?

Every community deserves to be safe, it’s a fundamental right. Our mission is simple - to build technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. Flock partners with cities, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods to help protect where people live, work, and play. Last year, Flock technology supported over 1 million criminal investigations. We've also helped solve approximately 20% of reported crimes in areas where we're deployed, and have played a role in locating more than 10,000 missing people.

We are a high-performance team united by urgency, ownership, and a shared commitment to meaningful impact. The work is fast-paced and the expectations are high. We push beyond perceived limits, support each other, and hold ourselves accountable to delivering results that matter.

With over $1B in funding and an $8.3B valuation, we are scaling with intention and investing in the people who will help us build what others said could not be done. At Flock, you will find the opportunity to grow quickly, take on real responsibility, and contribute to something bigger than yourself.

The Opportunity

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.

The Skillset

• 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. 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 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

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 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.

5. 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 of $142,000-$165,000 as well as stock options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

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. 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 three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, 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: $300 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.

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at View email address on jobs.jobcopilot.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.

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