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 $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B 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 

As Flock increases its investment in aviation, there is a growing need to add additional application developers. The internally developed hardware portfolio will be expanded to include multiple different drone-related products. Developers will need to become subject matter experts, write requirements, write application code, and iteratively release impactful software patches for these products.

We run on headless custom Android devices. Our Engineering team is made up of driven people who are responsible for all of the code running on a variety of devices Flock deploys in the real world. They enable the whole experience by writing applications that reliably capture, process, and upload data for years at a time without needing human interaction to keep them running.

The Skillset 

• Strong Java/Kotlin experience

• Possess strong debugging skills and experience with debugging custom Android embedded software

• Experience with headless Android-embedded systems

• Knowledge of Android application development, methodologies, design patterns

• Have the ability to read through a large existing codebase and adapt quickly

• Experience building and shipping custom Android devices

• Have worked on other mobile application frameworks

• Have experience with architecture, design, documentation

• Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub

• Must possess or obtain an FAA Part 107 certification within the first 90 days

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with custom Android hardware debugging 

• Experience developing camera and image-processing applications

• Experience with flying drones, either recreationally or commercially

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 in this role at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Gain an in-depth understanding of Flock’s devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements.

• Familiarize yourself with the device software architecture.

• Connect with members of the Framework, Applications, and Quality teams.

• Understand the software release process we will be following.

The First 60 Days 

• Take on more autonomy by defining software requirements for product requirements.

• Work with product management to ensure that tickets to be worked are fully complete.

• Complete from code to release 3 more tickets.

90 Days & Beyond 

• In discussion wit