Senior Software Engineer, Insights and Analytics

WHO IS FLOCK?

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.

THE OPPORTUNITY

With Flock's services undergoing exponential growth, we are seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Insights and Analytics team. This team is critical for helping customers visualize their data and find actionable insights to maximize the value of their services within the Flock Software Platform. In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling intuitive applications that enable efficient decision-making from the wealth of collected data and provide clear signals through the noise. This is a crucial time to join, as the Insights team owns the strategy for efficient data visualization and needs a strong engineer to collaborate, contribute to the product, and build stronger bindings to the overall platform to address the diverse and sophisticated technical challenges. We encourage continuous learning, provide plenty of growth opportunities, and value a fast-paced, decisive, and collaborative approach to iteration.

THE SKILLSET

- Love writing code and a commitment to continuous learning.

- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack (resourceful problem-solver mindset).

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

- Excited 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. (Would love to talk if that is really Vue or Angular too, ideally, you understand the patterns and differences with a good familiarity and strong in Typescript).

- Strong familiarity with relational databases, we primarily use PostgreSQL, but this role will likely interact with Clickhouse and other databases as well.

- Confidence with sophisticated SQL to access and synthesize customer data especially for reporting summaries and visualizations. (More important than specific reporting tools like Superset or Quicksight).

- Experience with graphing and/or visualization libraries (like D3.js, ECharts, Chart.js, etc).

- Confidence in microservices and system design.

- 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, SNS/SQS, etc.

- 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. The purpose of a 90 day plan: At Flock, we believe strongly in setting clear expectations and holding ourselves accountable. These are detailed outlines of what success looks like for an individual and are the best tools to establish regular feedback with a new manager-direct report relationship.

The First 30 Days

- Meet with colleagues!

- Meet with colleagues and key stakeholders to build relationships inside and outside the Insights team.

- Familiarize yourself with the company's mission, products, and development processes (the Flock Way).

- Pair with team members and adjacent teams to learn current practices and codebase.

- Work on tasks for the sprint with support, participating in all scrum ceremonies.

- Complete a first day push to production and start shipping code on a consistent basis with assistance.

- Review teammates' code with an eye towards learning and offering your unique perspective.

- Consistently bring agenda items to your weekly manager 1-1 meeting.

The First 6