Senior Software Engineer, Front End

Company Overview

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.

Salary: $171K - $215K Employment Type: FullTime Location Type: Remote

The Opportunity

The Aviation team is focused on building the next generation of DFR (Drone as First Responder) software and hardware solutions. The team needs another strong software engineer to contribute to these solutions. Our engineers get direct feedback from our customers and are able to react for high-impact results. We provide the tools to configure the benefits of Flock and, therefore, provide lots of growth opportunities in a highly visible, high-growth organization.

The Skillset

• Minimum of 8 years of experience as a Frontend Developer
• Love writing code and continue learning to do it better
• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack
• Proficient understanding of web markup, including HTML5 and CSS3
• Experience with front-end development tools such as Webpack, NPM, etc.
• Understanding of cross-browser compatibility issues and ways to work around them
• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable front-end code using TypeScript, Next.js, and ReactJS
• Ensure the technical feasibility of UI/UX designs and translate them into user-friendly interfaces
• Optimize applications for maximum speed and scalability
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features
• Mentor junior developers and conduct code reviews to ensure best practices

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 Senior Software Engineer at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Gain access to repositories, design systems, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Set up the local development environment and run the application.
• Understand the project structure, component architecture, and state management.
• Join stand-ups, sprint planning, and retrospectives.
• Meet with designers, backend engineers, and product managers to understand workflows.
• Participate in code reviews to understand best practices

The First 60 Days

• Develop a new UI component or page, ensuring responsiveness and performance.
• Implement global state management solutions like Redux.
• Optimize API calls using Next.js API routes or caching techniques.
• Identify and fix slow-loading pages using Next.js pe