Senior Software Engineer, Backend

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🕒 March 27

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $171k - $190k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔙 Backend Engineer

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Flock Safety

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2017

🔐 Security

💰 $150M Series E on 2022-02

Security • Public Safety • Technology

Flock Safety is a company that focuses on providing advanced technological solutions for public and private safety. They utilize tools such as license plate recognition (LPR), video cameras, audio detection, and automated drones to enhance security for neighborhoods, businesses, schools, and governmental organizations. Their products are designed to deter crime and assist law enforcement in generating leads through evidence collection. Flock Safety operates on a subscription service model, offering maintenance-free, easy-to-deploy infrastructure to improve community safety. Trusted by over 5,000 communities, Flock Safety aims to create safer environments while maintaining transparency and privacy.

📋 Description

• As a senior member of our engineering team, you will have the opportunity to build performant, reliable backend systems, contribute to architectural discussions, and deliver features that matter. • This role involves architecture, backend Go development, and honing the integrity and performance of a PostgreSQL database where Go services are not the only clients. • You should be a “manager of one” who excels both individually and on a team. • Collaborate with a fully remote team, requiring excellent writing and asynchronous communication skills.

🎯 Requirements

• 3+ years of PostgreSQL experience (querying, schema design, and performance tuning) • 3+ years of database architecture experience • 8+ years of backend development experience, including at least 4+ years using Go in production • Building scalable, high-performance Go microservices • Proficiency with message queues, pub/sub systems, or event-driven architectures • Deep knowledge of Go internals and concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels, sync primitives) • Expertise in profiling and optimizing Go applications for latency and throughput • Understanding of Go memory management, profiling, and performance optimization. • Designing REST and gRPC APIs consumed by multiple clients and services • Familiarity with observability tools (Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Grafana) • Experience in CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and Kubernetes • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills

🏖️ Benefits

• 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 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. • 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.