Flock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.
Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere. Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter.
While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart. Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised $150M in our Series E led by Tiger Global at a $3.5B valuation.
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 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 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
Starting the process of more clearly and explicitly establishing yourself as the champion of the admin team, both its people and technology.
Demonstrating full ownership of the Nova team from a technical perspective
Establish 90 day plans with your direct reports
Establish a rough census of confidence in each application and establish a ranking of where attention should go (testing, observability and alerting)
Establishing meetings with peers, stakeholders and topic groups within Flock for the expressed purpose of growth as a manager 90 Days & Beyond
Refining your vision for the team and how you want them to grow and change to support Flock.
You should be building out plans and processes to carry the team through 2025.
Establish a goal oriented team
Have established tracked goals for each reporting engineering member
Have at least 3 of your own goals established with the Nova team in mind for 2025
You are finding opportunities for both your team and you engage the customers
Demonstrate effective tracking and communication within cross-team dependencies
Demonstrate ownership and responsiveness to support and customer issues We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way.
Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are.
The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field.
The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day.
The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. Depending on the team and role you are interviewing for, you may meet with several teammates as well as cross-functional partners.
The Executive Review: A chance to meet an executive in your function and view Flock from a different lens. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more.
Culture Review: A final opportunity to meet with the Chief People Officer and the CTO. In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of 200,000- 215,000 as well as stock options.
The Perks
🌴 Flexible PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays.
⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.
👪 Family Leave: All employees receive 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave. Birthing parents are eligible for an additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time.
🍼 Fertility & Family Benefits: We have partnered with Maven, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. In 2024, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
🧠 Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace.
💖 Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support
💸 Carta Tax Advisor: Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.
💚 ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer three ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know.
💻 WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
📚 Productivity Stipend: $250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.
🏠 Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.
🐾 Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.
Main Stack: Typescript (Node.js), React, Golang, Postgres, Elastic, Dynamo. Hosted on AWS (k8s, sns) using Docker.
Camera Firmware: Embedded Android running on a custom PCB that we develop in house.
Machine Learning: Pytorch, TensorFlow, TF Serving, Computer Vision, Kubernetes