Software Engineer, Detectives & Dispatch

Key Skills

Amazon Simple Storage Service (S3), AWS, CSS, Docker, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, HTML, JavaScript, Kubernetes-K8s, Node.js, Postgres, TypeScript

Job Description

The Role

This role falls in our Detectives & Dispatch team, the team tasked with our flagship crime solving software solutions used by Detectives, Dispatch, and other Law Enforcement officers across the country. This is an opportunity to join a team and product that is helping to solve crimes and make communities safer every day.

Some challenges you’ll tackle

• Own features through their lifecycle: backend, frontend, data stores – the whole shebang
• Build applications that help solve crime
• Collaborate with Machine Learning and Hardware teams on multifaceted projects
• Work directly with Product to understand user needs and scope solutions
• Assess new technologies as needed for a task and make decisions balancing technical need and business impact

About You

• Love writing code and have extensive experience doing so. 
• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.
• Desire to grow your role and have a direct influence on the growth of a young company. 
• Interested in all aspects of the business, from direction to office space. 
• Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product. 

Our Tech

If you noticed, the above list says very little about specific coding skills. We believe the right person for this role is much more than a great engineer. But to get into the nitty gritty, currently our stack looks like:

• Typescript (Node) web services 
• React on the frontend, but also some mix of plain ole HTML, CSS (bootstrap), and Javascript (jQuery + KnockoutJS) as needed
• Postgres DB, ElasticSearch, but occasionally Redis or DynamoDB (use the right tool for the job)
• Kubernetes, Docker
• AWS (SQS, S3, etc)

Our Values 

Our values define how we approach our work every single day: 

• Do the Work 
• Optimism With a Plan 
• Embrace Change to Grow
• Protect the Whole Community 

To read more about our values, click here. 

Why Join Us?

• We have raised over $380M in venture capital and are backed by some of the top VCs including a16z, Tiger Global, Meritech and more
• 91% of our employees recommend working here
• We have an audacious goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% over the next three years
• 7% of crimes in the US are solved by Flock, and we help to solve ~200 crimes a day
• We partner with 2100+ cities and 1500+ agencies across the US and process 1.65B+ images a week (we process more images than Instagram )

Key Stats

• 3% of crimes in the US are solved by Flock
• Flock cameras help solve ~200 crimes/day
• 70% of all crime involves motor vehicles
• 2100+ cities with private cameras
• 1500+ agency relationships across the US
• 1B+ images processed a month (we process more images than Instagram)

Employee Benefits

• In this role, every full-time employee receives equity (stock options) in the company and a starting salary of $100,000-$120,000.