Where you fall within the compensation range is based on how you demonstrate the attributes and competencies required for the role. We mostly reserve the upper half of our compensation bands for internal growth. During your call with one of our recruiters, they can further clarify the salary range and our total compensation.

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 the exponential growth of live devices, we need an engineer who can help build, maintain, and scale the fleet management services at Flock that help keep things running smoothly. As an integral member of the fleet team, you’ll be responsible for assisting the team in tracking, building, and scaling alarms and statuses of the thousands of devices in the field for all our internal teams. We provide plenty of growth opportunities and continuous learning.

The Skillset

• Love writing code and continue learning to do it better (Backend 80%, Frontend 20%)

• Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack

• Desire to grow your role and directly influence the growth of a young company

• Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product

• Familiar with Typescript (Node) as web services in addition to general API design

• Confident in a modern web framework (React, Vue, Angular, etc). We leverage React with Typescript

• Familiar with various data stores and know how to interact with them. Confident in SQL

• 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, SQS, etc.

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 III at Flock Safety.

The First 30 Days

• Meet with colleagues!

• Understand current processes and procedures

• Work on tasks for the sprint with support

• Work towards understanding how fleet management services at Flock work

• Understand your role on the team and expectations

• Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc

The First 60 Days

• Ability to perform role with decreased need for guidance

• Able to complete features with little support

• Understand the software design philosophies being used

• Be comfortable navigating through the code base

• Engaged during technical conversations to increase quality of input

• Collaborate with cross-functional teams

• Understand what works well, limitations, missing metrics, etc and start providing feedback

• Build relationships with team members

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

• Contributing ideas for how we build better software and help refine the team’s plan

• Contributing regularly to sprint process

• Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months

• 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.

The Perks

💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $171,000-$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.

🌴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: $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.

Compensation Range: $160K - $190K