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 

With the Flock Safety iOS app currently being used by thousands of users daily, we need a Staff iOS Engineer that can support, maintain, and improve our product as our user base continues to grow!

The Skillset 

• Multiple years of iOS experience having worked on multiple apps shipped to the app store

• Experience shipping and maintaining a mobile app over an extended period of time - working with mobile apps at scale or having helped apps scale to millions of users is a plus! 

• A passion for programming alongside strong problem-solving and architecture abilities 

• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems

• Experience with the following technologies:

  • Swift, SwiftUI

  • Swift concurrency

  • UIKit, XCTest, APNs

  • Kotlin or NodeJS is a plus!

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 Staff Software Engineer Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Day 1 Impact: You will be busy onboarding today but we always like to have each employee have a “first day push of code.” It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be huge, just important to start and finish something quickly.

• Understand current processes and procedures;

• Walkthrough of Flock Safety iOS app 

• Walkthrough of Flock Safety app backend 

• Walkthrough of Flock Safety Android app 

• Review PR practices

• Begin working on CJIS certification

• Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, update READMEs.

The First 60 Days 

• Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance;

• High level understanding of the features we are working on

• Write up at least one ticket

• Understand the software design philosophies being used;

• Be comfortable navigating through the code base

• Manage a release of the iOS app

90 Days & Beyond 

• Acceleration in ramp up time when working on a new ticket

• 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

• Contribute ideas in Design Reviews and , Refinements, and architecture, for how we build bet