Senior Software Engineer

A BIT ABOUT FLOCK

At Flock we do insurance very differently. We're nearing 1 billion connected, insured miles.

Meaning our real‑time, data‑driven approach enables us to price connected vehicle insurance and assess risk better than ever before, giving fleet owners the insights they need to improve safety. We don’t just pay claims; we help our customers prevent them. We now insure hundreds of fleets in the UK, including the likes of Amazon, DPD, Uber and Bolt.

We've now raised over £50M and our goal is to become the leading insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles, and we're building a world‑class team to help us get there.

Join Flock as a Senior Software Engineer on our Growth & Trading team, where you’ll play a pivotal role in building and developing the services that support our policies and drive our business.

• Lead design, build and operation of critical backend services for Growth & Trading.
• Write high‑quality, well‑tested Type Script, shape Postgre
  
  SQL schemas and own delivery to production.

• Drive architecture and platform decisions for scalable, reliable and cost‑effective AWS services.
• Make pragmatic trade‑offs and introduce patterns that improve maintainability and operability.

• Work closely with product, data and commercial teams to translate needs into technical scope, define success metrics and guide trade‑offs to deliver measurable, customer‑focused outcomes.

• Lead by example through code and design discussions, mentoring and pairing.
• Encourage practical testing, CI/CD, type‑safe APIs and pragmatic functional patterns to raise standards and shape long‑term direction.

As a Senior Engineer at Flock you will own problems end to end, from design and build to deployment and measuring impact, working with engineers to keep our codebase clean and maintainable.

• Integrate with and contribute to the development of RESTful APIs exposed via API Gateway.
• Collaborate with backend engineers to shape APIs that efficiently serve data‑intensive views.

• Use your AWS experience (SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, Event Bridge, Cloud Watch) to support and extend the telemetry data ingestion and delivery pipeline.
• Work with infrastructure‑as‑code tools like Terraform or CDK for provisioning long‑lived resources.

• Work closely with product managers and engineers to scope, deliver, and test features.
• Participate in daily stand‑ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives in our Agile process.

• Deliver high‑quality, well‑tested code and raise the team’s standards by contributing to and leading code reviews, pairing sessions and design discussions — mentoring and supporting other engineers through practical, technical feedback.
• Share your knowledge and support the growth of engineers across the team, act as a force‑multiplier by driving best practices and shaping long‑term technical decisions for our engineering community.

Working hand‑in‑hand with your product manager, you’ll bring clarity to complex problems and help define sharply scoped, impactful deliverables. Your success won’t be measured by output alone, but by the lasting impact you make on our customers and on the team around you.

• ESSENTIAL
• Constructive and thoughtful; contribute ideas, be receptive to feedback and proactively improve code and team processes through CI/CD, tooling and code reviews.
• Hands‑on production experience building services in Type Script; write typed, maintainable code and own delivery. Strong Postgre
  
  SQL skills: schema, SQL, indexing, performance and migrations.
• Experience designing and operating distributed services in AWS, making pragmatic scalability, observability, reliability and cost trade‑offs.
• Thoughtful approach to testing and the full development lifecycle; shape code, deployment, maintenance and operational runbooks, with…