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 

The Nova Team develops essential applications that enable customers to engage with Flock’s mission to eliminate crime effectively. We are seeking a Software Engineering Manager to join our team to lead and build our ground breaking new product to provide sophisticated data mining techniques to provide speed, accuracy and thoroughness to the investigation process. This role is crucial for addressing how the team and its products should evolve to fit within the Flock ecosystem as well as evolve to fill a critical missing need for our customers.  A successful candidate will quickly learn our culture and technology landscape to be able to adapt this early stage product to fit into the overall mission of Flock.

The Skillset 

• Love writing code and continue learning to do it better

• Proven strong leadership skills and confidence in leading staff or distinguished engineers

• Coach direct reports to have a highly productive team and grow their individual careers

• Strong collaboration experience with Product Management; on agile process and participating in ceremonies, refinements and estimations

• Inspire and motivate direct reports to build quality software and cultivate a winning mentality where directs are excited by the opportunity.

• 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

• Confident 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.

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 Engineering Manager at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Your first 30 days should be spent understanding Flock’s and Nova’s processes, products, and code.

• Understand the Nova team’s purpose, mission, and how they are going to achieve it

• Establish 1:1’s with all team members and understand where they are in assessments via our organizational guides

• Be able to contribute to team’s repos and understand the processes we have in place to deliver code

• Review Team Agreements, Ceremonies, Tools and Techniques for operational excellence

• Have a working understanding of team’s Q3 deliverables and establish a process of reporting their status and risks to me.

The First 60 Days