Flock - Software Engineer III (Planner)

• Love writing code and continue learning to do it better • 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 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 planner 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. • The Hiring Manager Interview: You will meet with your potential future boss to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field. • The Technical Assessment: Our technical assessments seek to test the hard skills required to do the job. Engineers may find themselves in coding interviews or architecture discussions, sales roles may present mock discovery calls, and leadership roles may craft 90 day plans. Your recruiter will inform you of which assessment you will be assigned and ensure you are fully prepared for your big day.