Senior Software Engineer, Insights and Analytics

Flock Safety is a leading safety technology platform focused on crime prevention and security, connecting communities, law enforcement, businesses, schools, and neighborhoods. The company is experiencing exponential growth and is seeking a seasoned Software Engineer for the Insights and Analytics team. This role involves building, maintaining, and scaling intuitive applications to help customers visualize data and gain actionable insights from Flock's software platform. The engineer will contribute to the product strategy for efficient data visualization and address diverse technical challenges in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

Must Have

• Commitment to continuous learning and writing code.
• Resourceful problem-solver mindset.
• Desire to grow role and influence company growth.
• Excited about working on a fast-paced, evolving product.
• Confidence in web services with TypeScript/Node/Express and strong API design skills.
• Confidence in modern web frameworks like React/Typescript.
• Strong familiarity with relational databases, primarily PostgreSQL.
• Confidence with sophisticated SQL for data synthesis and reporting.
• Experience with graphing and/or visualization libraries.
• Confidence in microservices and system design.
• Familiarity with Docker for local development and Helm to Kubernetes for deployment.
• Familiarity with AWS managed services like S3, API Gateway, SNS/SQS.
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC patterns.

Good to Have

• Familiarity with Vue or Angular frameworks.

Perks & Benefits

• Flexible PTO
• 11 company holidays
• Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees (Medical, Dental, Vision)
• HSA match
• 12 weeks of 100% paid parental leave
• Additional 6-8 weeks of physical recovery time for birthing parents
• Fertility & Family Benefits with Maven ($50,000 lifetime maximum benefit for adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses)
• Mental health benefits with Spring Health (therapy, coaching, medication management, digital tools)
• Caregiver support with Cariloop
• Carta Tax Advisor (1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors)
• Employee Resource Groups (ERGs): Women of Flock, Flock Proud, Melanin Motion
• WFH Stipend: $150 per month
• Productivity Stipend: $300 per year (for Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly, etc.)
• Home Office Stipend: One-time $750

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

With Flock's services undergoing exponential growth, we are seeking a seasoned Software Engineer to join the Insights and Analytics team. This team is critical for helping customers visualize their data and find actionable insights to maximize the value of their services within the Flock Software Platform. In this role, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and scaling intuitive applications that enable efficient decision-making from the wealth of collected data and provide clear signals through the noise. This is a crucial time to join, as the Insights team owns the strategy for efficient data visualization and needs a strong engineer to collaborate, contribute to the product, and build stronger bindings to the overall platform to address the diverse and sophisticated technical challenges. We encourage continuous learning, provide plenty of growth opportunities, and value a fast-paced, decisive, and collaborative approach to iteration.

The Skillset

• Love writing code and a commitment to continuous learning.
• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack (resourceful problem-solver mindset).
• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company.
• Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.
• Confidence with TypeScript / Node / Express for web services and strong general API design skills (e.g., REST, gRPC, GraphQL, etc).
• Confidence in a modern web framework like React / Typescript. (Would love to talk if that is really Vue or Angular too, ideally, you understand the patterns and differences with a good familiarity and strong in Typescript).
• Strong familiarity with relational databases, we primarily use PostgreSQL, but this role will likely interact with Clickhouse and other databases as well.
• Confidence with sophisticated SQL to access and synthesize customer data especially for reporting summaries and visualizations. (More important than specific reporting tools like Superset or Quicksight).
• Experience with graphing and/or visualization libraries (like D3.js, ECharts, Chart.js, etc).
• Confidence in microservices and system design.
• Familiar with Docker and how to run locally and deploy remotely via Helm to Kubernetes.
• Familiar with AWS and have used some managed services like S3, API Gateway, SNS/SQS, etc.
• Familiarity with Terraform or similar IaC patterns.

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 to 90 day plans and believe that good days, lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. The purpose of a 90 day plan: At Flock, we believe strongly in setting clear expectations and holding ourselves accountable. These are detailed outlines of what success looks like for an individual and are the best tools to establish regular feedback with a new manager-direct report relationship.

The First 30 Days

• Meet with colleagues!
• Meet with colleagues and key stakeholders to build relationships inside and outside the Insights team.
• Familiarize yourself with the company's mission, products, and development processes (the Flock Way).
• Pair with team members and adjacent teams to learn current practices and codebase.
• Work on tasks for the sprint with support, participating in all scrum ceremonies.
• Complete a first day push to production and start shipping code on a consistent basis with assistance.
• Review teammates' code with an eye towards learning and offering your unique perspective.
• Consistently bring agenda items to your weekly manager 1-1 meeting.

The First 60 Days

• Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance on routine tasks.
• Able to complete larger features spanning multiple repositories with less assistance.
• Understand the software design philosophies being used, especially around data visualization and microservices.
• Learn the details of our deployment, monitoring, and logging stacks, and suggest improvements to observability.
• Prioritize reviewing PRs to learn existing patterns and push peers to use stronger practices.
• Establish a habit of running code locally when reviewing high-impact PRs.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and build relationships with team members.
• Help teach a skill or introduce a new development practice with your teammates.

90 Days & Beyond

• Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency.
• Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity.
• Demonstrate impact to teams outside Insights by representing the team on a cross-functional project and delivering needed solutions.
• Author an architecture document for a major new feature, or review multiple architecture docs and push for strong patterns.
• Lead our team in improving software quality and propose a solution to an observed user experience problem.
• Communicate across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently.
• Participate in one or more customer calls and complete a device installation ride-along.
• Present recent work in a video demo to be shared with other teams.
• Have a sense of where you want to grow at Flock.

The Interview Process

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way. To check out our interview stages and how you should prepare visit experiences on our careers page.

Salary & Equity

In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $170,000-$185,000 as well as stock options. Base salary is determined by job-related experience, education/training, as well as market indicators. Your recruiter will discuss this in-depth with you during our first chat.

The Perks

🌴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. Flock will provide a $50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.

🧠Spring Health: Spring Health offers a variety of mental health benefits, including therapy, coaching, medication management, and digital tools, all tailored to each individual's needs.

💖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: $300 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.

If an offer is extended and accepted, this position requires the ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment. Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check.

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.

Flock Safety is aware of fraudulent individuals and agencies falsely claiming to represent our company. All legitimate communication from Flock Safety will come from an email address ending in @flocksafety.com. We do not make job offers through messaging apps, social platforms, or unauthorized third parties, and we will never request payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process. If you encounter suspicious outreach related to a Flock Safety role, please report it to recruiting@flocksafety.com