Flock - Senior Software Engineer, Search
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Requirements
• Frontend Expertise: 5+ years of professional software development experience, with a deep mastery of modern frontend web technologies, design patterns, and user interface design using React and TypeScript. • Frontend Expertise: • React • TypeScript • Data Visualization: Experience with mapping libraries (e.g., Mapbox, Google Maps API) and/or complex data visualizations on maps. • Data Visualization: • Fullstack/Backend Context: Comfort working with Node.js / Express for web services and a solid understanding of general API design (e.g., REST, GraphQL, gRPC). • Fullstack/Backend Context: • Node.js / Express • Microservice Awareness: Familiarity with core backend microservice concepts, including basic SQL (PostgreSQL or similar) and how clients call between services, so you can collaborate effectively with dedicated backend peers. • Microservice Awareness: • Problem Solving: A resourceful problem-solver mindset, excelling in ambiguous situations and taking initiative. • Problem Solving: • Growth Mindset: A love for coding, excitement about working on a fast-paced, constantly evolving product, and a commitment to continuous learning. • Growth Mindset: • Familiarity with AWS managed services (e.g., S3, API Gateway, SNS/SQS). • Experience optimizing frontend performance for high-traffic, data-heavy applications. • 90 Days at Flock • 90 Days at Flock • The First 30 Days • The First 30 Days • Pair with each engineer on the Search team to learn the services we own and get to know your teammates • Review the existing architecture and participate in PR reviews regularly to understand current patterns • Push code to production early and begin picking up sprint tickets • Meet with product, design, and key partner teams to understand how customers use Search and what the business needs • First 60 Days: Deepen Ownership and Elevate the Team • Take on larger tasks spanning multiple repositories with increasing independence • Identify and suggest improvements to our systems and architecture based on what you've learned • Prioritize thorough PR reviews and lead at least one team-facing discussion, a tech talk, demo, or retro item • Participate in customer calls and start on-call rotations • 90 Days and Beyond: Lead and Make an Impact • Represent the Search team on a cross-functional project and communicate progress back to your manager and teammates • Author or meaningfully contribute to an architecture document for a major feature • Serve as a technical point person for core Search features and propose solutions to user experience problems you've observed • Begin mentoring teammates and champion best practices in PR reviews across the team
Benefits
• In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary between $170,000 and $190,000 as well as Flock 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. • Location • We’re building the impossible, together. To drive innovation through in-person collaboration, we’re prioritizing candidates in our key hubs: Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, San Francisco, and Austin. While we value the energy of our hub communities, we embrace remote work and welcome applications from exceptional talent across the United States. • 🌴Flexible PTO: We offer non-accrual PTO, plus 11 company holidays. • Flexible PTO • ⚕️Fully-paid health benefits plan for employees: including Medical, Dental, and Vision and an HSA match. • Fully-paid • plan for employees • 👪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. • Family Leave • 🍼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. • Spring Health: • 💖Caregiver Support: We have partnered with Cariloop to provide our employees with caregiver support • 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. • Carta Tax Advisor: • 💚ERGs: We want all employees to thrive and feel like they belong at Flock. We offer four ERGs today - Women of Flock, Flock Proud, LEOs and Melanin Motion. If you are interested in talking to a representative from one of these, please let your recruiter know. • ERGs: • 💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home. • 💻WFH Stipend: • 📚Productivity Stipend: $300 per year to use on Audible, Calm, Masterclass, Duolingo and so much more. • 📚Productivity Stipend: • 🏠Home Office Stipend: A one-time $750 to help you create your dream office. • 🏠Home Office Stipend: • 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.
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