[Remote] Senior Software Engineer, Fullstack
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flock is committed to building technology that enhances community safety and privacy. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join their Cloud Video team, focusing on developing low-latency live video capabilities and a custom video management system that empowers customers to respond quickly to situations.
Responsibilities
- Contribute to the rapid development of Flock’s custom-built Video Management Software, where we display live video for our customers
- Enable our customers to respond to situations quickly through live video, and this engineer will be a key part of the development of the groundbreaking product
- Understand team workflows and processes
- Contribute smaller features and bugfixes with guidance
- Have all team repos cloned locally and have a good idea of what they do
- Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance
- Contribute to technical planning and architecture discussions
- Understand design philosophies in use
- Contribute to metric collection and automated test suites
- Come up with and speak on ideas for improving our speed, resource usage, API simplicity, and other topics to make our software suite better
- Start to own smaller projects
- Communicate with cross-functional teams to ensure projects succeed
Skills
- 3-8 years of experience in software development
- Experience with React or other Javascript frameworks and Typescript (Node) web services
- Proficient in identifying and implementing performant UI optimizations to ensure smooth and responsive user experiences across various platforms and devices
- Experience designing and implementing APIs
- Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams
- Love writing code and have extensive experience doing so
- Motivated by taking an unknown problem, sinking your teeth in, and coming up with a plan of attack
Benefits
- Stock options
- 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.
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