<h2>Who is Flock?</h2>Flock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.&nbsp;Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere.&nbsp; Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter.&nbsp;While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart . Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised over $380M in venture capital including a recent Series E round led by Tiger Global.&nbsp; Now surpassing a 3B valuation, Flock is scaling quickly 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.Additional Information&nbsp;<ul><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HO5BNSqzDCY&amp;t=4s">How To Succeed at Flock Video&nbsp;</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/series-e-announcement">Flock’s Series E Announcement</a>&nbsp;</li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbrMbcifA5g">How We Stop Crime and Protect Privacy&nbsp;</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.flocksafety.com/articles/-eliminate-crime-principled-framework">Flock’s Framework&nbsp;</a></li><li><a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.flocksafety.com/about/ethics-center">Ethics Center</a></li></ul><h2>The Role</h2>This role falls in our Platform team, to help decide, architect, and implement how Flock consumes and exposes video from Flock and third party devices. This is a collaborative effort, so expect to partner closely with our Platform team, the Machine Learning team, the devices team, our frontend focussed software teams, and our product team.How you'll make an impact:<ul><li>Own development on our video ingestion platform</li><li>Collaborate with Machine Learning, Hardware teams, and front end focussed teams on multifaceted projects touching the entire system</li><li>Learn our system. If a technology is out there, we probably touch it</li><li>Working directly with Product to scope features into iterative efforts</li><li>Assess new technologies as needed for a task and make decisions balancing technical need and business impact</li></ul>We're looking for people who:&nbsp;<ul><li>Design, architecture, and development on products that deal with live video ingestion, integration, storage, and consumption at scale</li><li>Eager to spend time hopping between low level video/image processing and cloud software at scale.</li><li>Extensive experience designing, building and scaling backend services in a cloud based environment</li><li>Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.</li><li>Be interested in all aspects of the business, from direction to office space.&nbsp;</li><li>Be excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.&nbsp;</li></ul>Our general interview process is outlined <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FNJI5LYmzQBtzW9xj4PpPTfGzZtiGgj79nSwG8LaR18/edit">here</a>.<h2>Our Tech</h2><ul><li>Video/Image libraries like FFmpeg, GStreamer, h264/h265, OpenCV, Tensorflow Lite</li><li>Cross compilation of all of the above in cloud processes as well as in embedded platforms (e.g. ARM)</li><li>Kinesis Video Streams</li><li>HLS.js</li><li>Typescript (Node), Go web services, and Python</li><li>Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker</li><li>AWS (many managed services)</li></ul><h2>Our Values &nbsp;</h2>Our values define how we approach our work every single day:&nbsp;<ul><li>Do the Work&nbsp;</li><li>Optimism With a Plan&nbsp;</li><li>Embrace Change to Grow</li><li>Protect the Whole Community&nbsp;</li></ul>To read more about our values, click <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://docs.google.com/document/d/144BlHemfM4LSCJLUXTLvf7O4XB82Fwn15pOgl2Up8bA/edit">here</a>.&nbsp;<h2>Why Join Us?</h2>While being surrounded by a bunch of cool people working to eliminate crime is its own reward, we have plenty more to offer:<ul><li>We have raised over $380M in venture capital and are backed by some of the top VCs including a16z, Tiger Global, Meritech and more</li><li>94% of our employees recommend working here</li><li>We have an audacious goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% over the next three years</li><li>3% of crimes in the US are solved by Flock and we help to solve ~200 crimes a day</li><li>We partner with 2100+ cities and 1500+ agencies across the US and process 1B+ images a month (we process more images than Instagram&nbsp;🤯)</li></ul><h2>The Perks</h2><ul><li>💰 Salary &amp; Equity : In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $150,000-$180,000 as well as stock options</li><li>🌴 Use what you need PTO : We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!</li><li>⚕️ Fully-paid <a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/16AiAyE3RKph_Zu8csJySIqqC_o3nqJmV/view">&nbsp;health benefits</a> &nbsp;plan for employees : including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match.&nbsp;</li><li>👪 Family Leave : We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and 12 weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers.&nbsp;</li><li>🍼 Fertility &amp; Family Benefits: &nbsp;We have partnered with&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.mavenclinic.com/">Maven</a>, a complete digital health benefit for starting and raising a family. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility.</li><li>🧠 Mental Health: &nbsp;All employees receive an annual subscription to&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.headspace.com/">Headspace</a></li><li>💖 Caregiver Support: &nbsp;We have partnered with&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.cariloop.com/">Cariloop</a>&nbsp;to provide our employees with caregiver support&nbsp;</li><li>💸 Carta Tax Advisor: &nbsp;Employees receive 1:1 sessions with Equity Tax Advisors who can address individual grants, model tax scenarios, and answer general questions.&nbsp;</li><li>💻WFH Stipend: &nbsp;$150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.</li><li>📚L&amp;D Stipend: &nbsp;$250 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, Grammarly and so much more.</li><li>🏠Home Office Stipend: &nbsp;A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office.</li><li>🏢Coworking Space: &nbsp;If you’re not local to our ATL HQ, we’ll provide $250 a month to get you set up with an All Access Membership to WeWork (or a local coworking space in your area).</li><li>🐾 Pet Insurance: &nbsp;We’ve partnered with&nbsp;<a target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://hello.pumpkin.care/comparesem/?utm_source=google&amp;utm_medium=cpc&amp;utm_campaign=Google_USA_Search_Brand&amp;utm_content=Google_USA_Search_Brand_General_Exact&amp;utm_campaignid=15710600630&amp;utm_adgroupid=131181652986&amp;utm_adid=571944109837&amp;utm_keyword=pumpkin%20pet%20insurance&amp;utm_matchtype=e&amp;gclid=Cj0KCQiA1sucBhDgARIsAFoytUuUlyKvQJvyvkLRt5ii432apq_7ng3BLv0vyiWHFdaawRzn-FrsMckaAvI5EALw_wcB">Pumpkin</a>&nbsp;to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies.&nbsp;</li></ul>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. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.<h3>Technology</h3>Main Stack: Typescript (Node.js), React, Golang, Postgres, Elastic, Dynamo. Hosted on AWS (k8s, sns) using Docker.Camera Firmware: Embedded Android running on a custom PCB that we develop in house.Machine Learning: Pytorch, TensorFlow, TF Serving, Computer Vision, Kubernetes

Flock Safety

Software Engineer, Video Streaming 

Job DescriptionFlock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.
Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere. Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter.
While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart . Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised over $380M in venture capital including a recent Series E round led by Tiger Global. Now surpassing a 3B valuation, Flock is scaling quickly 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 Role
This role falls in our Detectives &amp; 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
<ul>
<li>Own features through their lifecycle: backend, frontend, data stores – the whole shebang</li>
<li>Build applications that help solve crime</li>
<li>Collaborate with Machine Learning and Hardware teams on multifaceted projects</li>
<li>Work directly with Product to understand user needs and scope solutions</li>
<li>Assess new technologies as needed for a task and make decisions balancing technical need and business impact</li>
</ul>
About You
<ul>
<li>Love writing code and have extensive experience doing so.</li>
<li>Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack.</li>
<li>Desire to grow your role and have a direct influence on the growth of a young company.</li>
<li>Interested in all aspects of the business, from direction to office space.</li>
<li>Excited about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product.</li>
<li>Our Tech</li>
<li>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.</li>
</ul>
But to get into the nitty gritty, currently our stack looks like:
<ul>
<li></li>
<li>Typescript (Node) web services with a bit of Scala and Go in there as well as needed</li>
<li>React on the frontend, but also some mix of plain ole HTML, CSS (bootstrap), and Javascript (jQuery + KnockoutJS) as needed</li>
<li>Swift(iOS) or Kotlin(Android) for mobile apps</li>
<li>Postgres DB, ElasticSearch, but occasionally Redis or DynamoDB (use the right tool for the job)</li>
<li>Kubernetes, Docker</li>
<li>AWS (SQS, S3, etc)</li>
<li>Why Join Us?</li>
<li>We have raised over $380M in venture capital and are backed by some of the top VCs including a16z, Tiger Global, Meritech and more.</li>
<li>94% of employees recommend working at Flock Safety</li>
<li>Incredible product-market fit. Flock fits that “goldilocks” set of price, functionality, and service</li>
<li>We are scaling quickly 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.</li>
<li>Uniquely mission-driven company. Making communities safer through objective, evidence-based technology.</li>
</ul>
Key Stats
<ul>
<li>3% of crimes in the US are solved by Flock</li>
<li>Flock cameras help solve ~200 crimes/day</li>
<li>70% of all crime involves motor vehicles</li>
<li>2100+ cities with private cameras</li>
<li>1500+ agency relationships across the US</li>
<li>1.1B+ images processed weekly (we process more images than Instagram)</li>
</ul>
Employee Benefits
<ul>
<li>In this role, every full-time employee receives equity (stock options) in the company and a minimum starting salary of $135,000.</li>
<li>We offer unlimited PTO and twelve paid holidays (Your Birthday, New Year’s Day, MLK Jr Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, Day After Thanksgiving, Christmas Eve, Christmas Day, and New Year’s Eve)</li>
<li>We offer fully-paid health benefits plan for employees, including Medical, Dental and Vision</li>
<li>We provide 16 weeks of 100% paid leave for primary caregivers and six weeks of 100% paid leave for secondary caregivers</li>
<li>We provide $150 per month work from home allowance</li>
<li>We provide a $250 per year L&amp;D stipend that can be used on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo, and so much more</li>
<li>Each new hire receives a one-time stipend of $750 to assist with expenses that come with setting up a home office</li>
<li>We provide employees who are not local to the ATL headquarters with coworking space access paid for by Flock</li>
</ul>
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.

Software Engineer, Detectives & Dispatch

Eliminate Crime. Build Community.Flock Safety provides the first public safety operating system that empowers private communities and law enforcement to work together to eliminate crime. We are committed to protecting human privacy and mitigating bias in policing with the development of best-in-class technology rooted in ethical design, which unites civilians and public servants in pursuit of a safer, more equitable society.Our Safety-as-a-Service approach includes affordable devices powered by LTE and solar that can be installed anywhere. Our technology detects and captures objective details, decodes evidence in real-time and delivers investigative leads into the hands of those who matter.While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fun relationships even when we are physically apart. Our flock of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. Flock Safety is headquartered in Atlanta and operates nationwide. We have raised approximately 250M in venture capital including a recent Series D round by Andreessen Horowitz. Now surpassing a 1B valuation, Flock is scaling quickly and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of eliminating crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.About the opportunityAs an Android Engineer working on the Technician Installer App, you will be tasked with building improvements to the way our technicians install devices. With over 10k devices to be installed next year, there is a huge opportunity for improvement of the installation process to ensure speed and quality of the install. By improving the technician experience to increase the number of installs per technician per day, and the number of first time done right installs, you will directly impact the core growth metrics of the company. 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.Some challenges you’ll tackle<ul><li>Set architectural direction for the Installer Android App, moving it from a hybrid web/native app to a fully native app</li><li>Work directly with technicians, UX, and product to understand the use cases and ensure a high quality user experience</li><li>Develop features and improvements to the current flows for installing new Falcons</li><li>Add support for new product lines coming out in 2022</li><li>Code reviews and support for other developers that contribute to the install code base</li></ul>About You<ul><li>Experience working with Android Native Apps</li><li>Comfortable working within an Agile Framework</li><li>Proficient in Java and/or Kotlin for development</li><li>Experience in mobile design patterns (MVVM, MVI, VIPER), building mobile frameworks / SDKs, building custom UX widgets and optimizing apps for performance</li><li>A proven ability to build prototypes and take a data-driven approach to product development, testing and measuring new ideas very quickly</li><li>Consumer empathy, desire and ability to understand the world the Technicians live in and how to improve it</li></ul>Why join the Flock?When you join the Flock, you are joining a diverse team of passionate, ambitious, intelligent people that put team over self. We offer competitive salary (commensurate with experience), equity in the company, take what you need vacation policy, and the opportunity to grow your career at a fast-paced, high growth mission-driven startup. We genuinely care about the well-being of our employees both in and out of the office and understand the importance of work/life balance. We’d love for you to join us in the fight to eliminate crime, one community at a time.

Android Engineer

Help us eliminate non-violent crime, one community at a timeAre you excited about eliminating non-violent crime and fascinated by the potential for technology to accelerate it? Do you want to help build a company that’s solving crime every day, while creating public / private partnerships, and protecting the privacy of individual citizens?Flock Safety exists to eliminate crime from our communities. We believe that safety starts, not when you enter your home or even your property, but when you enter your community. We are stronger when we all work together and that's why Flock Safety developed technology specifically designed to help private citizens and local law enforcement work together to stop crime.While safety is serious business, we still think there is some space for having fun. We call Atlanta home and are well funded by YCombinator, Matrix Partners, BedRock Capital, and Founders Fund - and we're growing.About the opportunityFlock is looking to add an Android Framework Engineer to our device software team. Our device team is made up of scrappy engineers who are responsible for all of the code running on a variety of devices Flock deploys in the real world. They enable the whole experience by writing applications that reliably capture, process, and upload over 200M images per day for years at a time without needing human interaction to keep them running.Some challenges you’ll tackle<ul><li>Integrate and customize Android frameworks to Flock Safety’s custom hardware platforms</li><li>Work with the kernel team and device software teams to enable required functionality in Android-based devices (e.g. cameras, environmental sensors, power systems, etc.)</li><li>Optimize Android system services and frameworks to run in a headless environment</li><li>Develop, review, test, and debug Android APIs and system services</li><li>Ensure the stability and robustness of the system software from ideation through production and launch</li><li>Work with systems designed for ultimate redundancy and high availability</li><li>Balance performance with energy consumption - we’re a machine learning enabled media processing machine powered by the sun!</li><li>Integrate Android with other IoT devices to share data to help each other understand and respond to the environment</li></ul>About You<ul><li>Strong desire to understand the root cause of a problem and deliver a robust solution.</li><li>Development experience with embedded systems, especially headless and/or industrial/non-consumer devices</li><li>Experience bringing up devices and customizing BSPs for Android other embedded build systems such as Yocto or Buildroot</li><li>Experience developing for non-phone/tablet/watch Android Devices (preferred)</li><li>Strong knowledge of and experience with AOSP architecture and comprising projects</li><li>Extensive experience coding in C/C++ and Java, specific experience with Android Frameworks and System Java preferred</li><li>Extensive knowledge of Android fundamentals (ART, RIL, AIDL, Broadcast, Binder, Messenger, SystemServer, etc.). - - Specific experience with the Java/Frameworks side of these interfaces preferred</li><li>Experience in dealing with complex systems and codebases (AOSP, Android Makefile, Soong, HALs, etc)</li><li>Familiarity with Linux internals (process scheduler, memory management, concurrency, synchronization, memory allocation, file system, networking, storage, subsystem architecture)</li><li>Familiarity with Android system software, Android HALs and Driver Architecture</li><li>Experience working in a Linux development environment with GNU toolchain and standard project management tools (Git, Github, Gerrit, etc.)</li><li>Some knowledge of common peripheral bus technologies including SPI, I2C, UART with focus on how Android interacts with these types of peripherals</li></ul>Why join the Flock?When you join the Flock, you are joining a diverse team of passionate, ambitious, intelligent people that put team over self. We offer competitive salary, benefits, and the opportunity to grow your career at a fast-paced, high growth start up. We genuinely care about the well-being of our employees both in and out of the office and understand the importance of work/life balance. We’d love for you to join us in the fight to eliminate non-violent crime, one neighborhood at a time.

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