Who is Flock?

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 $700M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Bedrock Capital, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $7.5B 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

Are you ready to be the keeper and architect of a highly scaled, user-facing platform that empowers thousands of first responders daily to investigate and solve crime? Join the team that designs and defends the very fabric of our critical system. You'll be tackling the intricate challenge of building and maintaining the foundational infrastructure that forms critical touch points with our customers.
This role is about more than just administration; it's about designing and implementing the secure, high-performance infrastructure that underpins seamless customer onboarding, robust user management, and ironclad privacy controls.

We're experiencing exponential growth, and you'll be instrumental in scaling our platform, ensuring a smooth, reliable, and secure journey for every user. If you're passionate about crafting intuitive web applications and powerful APIs that directly impact our customers, and if you enjoy the challenge of solving complex problems in user authentication, authorization, and data security, then join us. You'll work across the full stack, from developing the user-facing interfaces to architecting the backend services that power our core, mission-critical operations.

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 Senior Software Engineer 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.

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