Software Engineering Manager, Nova

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $200K - $215K

Flock Safety is a technology company focused on eliminating crime and enhancing community safety through an intelligent platform that integrates cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement. Our comprehensive, maintenance-free technology solution provides actionable evidence to solve, deter, and reduce crime, while respecting transparency and privacy. We foster a supportive, inclusive, and positive remote work environment where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock has secured over $700M in venture capital and is valued at over $7.5B, aiming to reduce crime in the U.S. by 25% in the next three years.

The Nova Team is seeking a Software Engineering Manager to lead the development of essential applications and a groundbreaking new product that utilizes sophisticated data mining techniques to improve the speed, accuracy, and thoroughness of the investigation process. This role is critical in guiding the evolution of the team and its products within the Flock ecosystem to meet critical customer needs. The ideal candidate will quickly integrate into our culture and technology landscape to adapt this early-stage product to Flock's overall mission.

Requirements

• Proven strong leadership skills and confidence in leading staff or distinguished engineers.
• Ability to coach direct reports to build highly productive teams and foster individual career growth.
• Strong collaboration experience with Product Management, including participation in agile processes, ceremonies, refinements, and estimations.
• Ability to inspire and motivate direct reports to build quality software and cultivate a winning mentality.
• Motivated by tackling unknown problems, devising solutions, and creating actionable plans.
• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company.
• Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.
• Confident with Typescript (Node) for web services and general API design.
• Proficient with a modern web framework (React, Vue, Angular); React with Typescript is leveraged.
• Familiarity with various data stores and methods of interaction, with confidence in SQL.
• Familiarity with Docker for local execution and remote deployment via Helm to Kubernetes.
• Experience with AWS and its managed services (e.g., S3, API Gateway, SQS).

Responsibilities

• Lead and build a groundbreaking new product using sophisticated data mining techniques.
• Provide speed, accuracy, and thoroughness to the investigation process.
• Guide the evolution of the team and its products within the Flock ecosystem.
• Adapt an early-stage product to fit Flock's overall mission.
• Coach direct reports for team productivity and individual career development.
• Collaborate closely with Product Management on agile processes.
• Inspire and motivate the team to build quality software.

Company Culture & Approach

• Results-oriented culture with a focus on 90-day plans.
• Emphasis on good days leading to good weeks, which lead to good months.
• Supportive team environment, optimizing the remote experience for strong relationships.
• Hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment.
• Bias towards action is rewarded.

90 Days at Flock (Preview)

• First 30 Days: Focus on understanding Flock’s and Nova’s processes.