Senior Software Engineer, Android Apps

Flock Safety is a leading safety technology platform focused on crime prevention. This high-performance team is seeking a Senior Software Engineer for their Device Software Android Apps team. The role involves driving stability and performance for embedded LPR platforms, focusing on headless custom Android applications. The engineer will own system architecture, quality, and low-level performance of fleet applications, integrating critical features like nativeML library and imaging solutions in collaboration with ML and hardware teams.

Must Have

• Strong Kotlin experience
• Experience developing camera and image-processing applications
• Possess strong debugging skills and experience with debugging custom Android hardware
• Experience with headless Android-embedded systems
• Knowledge of Android application development, methodologies, design patterns
• Have the ability to read through a large existing codebase and adapt quickly
• Experience building and shipping custom Android devices
• Have worked on other mobile application frameworks
• Have experience with architecture, design, documentation
• Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub

Good to Have

• Experience with managing dashboards monitoring device health

Perks & Benefits

• Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $171,000-$200,000 as well as stock options
• Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!
• 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.
• WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.
• L&D 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.

Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform, helping communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. Our hardware and software suite connects cities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods in a nationwide public-private safety network. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, 4,500 law enforcement agencies, and 1,000 businesses, Flock delivers real-time intelligence while prioritizing privacy and responsible innovation.

We’re a high-performance, low-ego team driven by urgency, collaboration, and bold thinking. Working at Flock means tackling big challenges, moving fast, and continuously improving. It’s intense but deeply rewarding for those who want to make an impact.

With nearly $700M in venture funding and a $7.5B valuation, we’re scaling intentionally and seeking top talent to help build the impossible. If you value teamwork, ownership, and solving tough problems, Flock could be the place for you.

The Opportunity

Flock is looking to add a Software Engineer to our Device Software Android Apps team. In this role, you will be the core engineer driving the stability and high-performance of our embedded LPR platform, focusing exclusively on headless custom Android applications. You will master the full system architecture, directly owning the quality and low-level performance of fleet applications, and rapidly integrating critical features—including new versions of the nativeML library and performance-critical imaging solutions—in close collaboration with our ML and hardware teams.

The Skillset

• Strong Kotlin experience
• Experience developing camera and image-processing applications
• Possess strong debugging skills and experience with debugging custom Android hardware
• Experience with headless Android-embedded systems
• Knowledge of Android application development, methodologies, design patterns
• Have the ability to read through a large existing codebase and adapt quickly
• Experience building and shipping custom Android devices
• Have worked on other mobile application frameworks
• Have experience with architecture, design, documentation
• Skilled in JIRA, Confluence, Jenkins, Gerrit, Git/GitHub

Nice to Haves:

• Experience with managing dashboards monitoring device health

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 prescribe 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 Device Software Engineer at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering and Product Team
• Become familiar with the hardware design, embedded software, cloud interface, build and deployment tools, fleet health, and project statuses.

The First 60 Days

• Expand your knowledge of the Picard platform (apps, drivers, OS)
• Start to get familiar with the android camera stack

The First 90 Days

• Implement required code changes
• Define testing criteria, help develop tests, and work with QA to build out their test plans for the new feature
• Support the launch of your features, including daily monitoring of deployed to devices

The Perks

💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $171,000-$200,000 as well as stock options

🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!

⚕️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.

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚L&D 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 recruiting@flocksafety.com. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.

At Flock Safety, we compensate our employees fairly for their work. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. The range above is representative of base salary only and does not include equity, sales bonus plans (when applicable) and benefits. This range may be modified in the future. This job posting may span more than one career level.

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