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

This role seeks to expand the capabilities of our Android Device Video team to build out Application level support for new products, performance improvements, features and to increase the velocity with which we can reliably release software across an increasing number, variety, and maturity of products. This role is expected to involve approximately 75% of new feature, architecture, design, and implementation work in the Android Apps space and 25% cross functional architecture and planning work with the Cloud, Installer, and Android Framework teams.

The Skillset

We're looking for people with:

• Strong Java, C/C++ skills.

• Strong knowledge and experience with Embedded Video devices

• Experience with or ability to pick up Kotlin

• Be able to navigate the various layers of a video streaming stack: Transport protocols, container formats, cloud streaming concepts.

• Have demonstrated expertise in a few areas of Embedded Video Streaming. 

• Be able to learn new areas of Embedded Video Streaming or learn these areas: RTSP, DVR, VOD, performance optimization, quality optimization, testing and validation.

• Ability to read through a large existing codebase and adapt quickly.

• Have worked custom Android devices or ability to.

• Strong debugging skills and debugging on custom Android HW.

• Architecture, design, documentation.

• JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with managing dashboards monitoring device health

• Experience with SQL and other database concepts

• WebRTC, HLS, or experience with other modern video streaming verticals

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 Software Engineer at Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering and Product Team

• Learn as much as possible about Flock's devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements

• Understand Flock video product goals and system design

The First 60 Days 

• Ticket, plan, and execute on the standardization of Video Device configuration and settings

90 Days & Beyond 

• Watch for and triage any bugs

• Deliver on the architecture and plans laid out previously

• Identify future improvements, and work with team to structure your work stream

The Interview