Software Engineer III - Atlanta, United States - Flock Safety

Description

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe.

Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together.

Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities.

Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.
Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community.

While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart.

Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded.

We have raised over $380M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital.

Now surpassing a $3B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Opportunity

The Detectives and Dispatch team deals with our most impactful tools for our customers. The underlying technical challenges to enable these tools are at least as difficult if not more. The team needs another strong engineer to contribute to these solutions. Our engineers get direct feedback from our customers and are able to react for high-impact results.

We provide the tools to configure the benefits of Flock and, therefore provide lots of growth opportunities for our engineers to expand their skills in multiple areas.

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 III at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days
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.
The First 60 Days
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
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.

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 in your function and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.
The Perks

Salary & Equity

:

In this role, you'll receive a starting salary of

$125,000-$150,000

as well as stock options
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

:

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. 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.
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 This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

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