Software Engineer III, Android Mobile
Flock Safety
Who is Flock?
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 $380M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B 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 Opportunity
With the Installer app installing and maintaining thousands of devices a week, we need an Android Engineer III who can support and improve our mobile application. Flock also plans to bring multiple new devices to market, each with their own customized installation processes, which will live in this application. This opportunity is perfect for a talented android developer who has consumer empathy and wants to work on a project that will directly impact Flock’s growth metrics and ultimate success.
The Skillset
Proficient with Android native apps in Kotlin
Knowledge of Jetpack Compose is a plus
Experience working with IoT technologies (wifi, bluetooth)
Experience with modern Android architecture patterns
A proven ability to build prototypes and take a data-driven approach to product development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly
Consumer empathy, desire and ability to understand the world the Technicians live in and how to improve it
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.
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 Software Engineer Flock Safety.
The First 30 Days
Day 1 Impact: You will be busy onboarding today but we always like to have each employee have a “first day push of code.” It doesn’t have to be perfect and it doesn’t have to be huge, just important to start and finish something quickly.
Understand current processes and procedures;
Review PR practices
Walkthrough of Installer app
Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, update READMEs.
The First 60 Days
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Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance;
Take ownership of tasks
Come up with options of solutions instead of “what should I do?”
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Able to complete medium sized tasks with little support;
Contribute work in small shippable chunks
Smaller PRs are preferred!
High level understanding of the features we are working on
Manage a release of the Installer app
Participate and comment on PRs
Understand the software design philosophies being used;
Be comfortable navigating through the code base;
Engaged during technical conversation to increase quality of input;
Contribute to pointing stories in refinement;
Start monitoring of logs and dashboards
90 Days & Beyond
Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency;
Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity;
Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently;
Contribute ideas in Design Reviews and Refinements, for how we build better software
Contributing valuable feedback in PR reviews
Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months.
The Perks
💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $125,000-$170,000 as well as stock options
🌴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.
Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.
If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at careers@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.