Senior Software Engineer, Sharing and Compliance

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public‑private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real‑time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high‑performance, low‑ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.

Flock is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Sharing and Compliance team to help build, maintain, and enhance the critical systems that enable customers to control how they share their devices and contribute to the community‑wide effort to eliminate crime, managing the exponential growth of Flock’s customers and devices. This team owns how customers discover, agree, and comply with various sharing arrangements, providing the necessary tools and monitoring to foster a powerful network effect that makes communities stronger and safer.

You will be responsible for building intuitive applications within the Flock Software Platform that enable customers to set agreements for other agencies and comply with the usage agreements of others. The technical challenges are diverse and sophisticated, requiring a strong engineer who can collaborate, contribute to the product, and build robust bindings to the overall platform, while embracing continuous learning, fast iteration, and decisive collaboration.

• Love writing code and a commitment to continuous learning.
• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack (resourceful problem‑solver mindset).
• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company.
• Excited about working on a fast‑paced, constantly evolving product.
• Confidence with Type Script / Node / Express for web services and strong general API design skills (e.g., REST, gRPC, Graph
  
  QL, etc).
• Confidence in a modern web framework like React / Typescript. (Would love to talk if that is really Vue or Angular too, ideally, you understand the patterns and differences with a good familiarity and strong in Typescript).
• Strong familiarity with relational databases, we primarily use Postgre
  
  SQL, but this role will likely interact with Clickhouse and other databases as well.
• Confidence with sophisticated SQL to access and synthesize customer data especially for support needs in understanding and/or make bulk change scripts.
• Experience with map technologies and visualize data on real world maps.
• Confidence in microservices and system design.
• 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, SNS/SQS, etc.
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC patterns.

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.

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. The purpose of a 90‑day plan:
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