Software Engineer III (Planner)

Flock is a company dedicated to building technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. They are seeking a seasoned Software Engineer III to help build, maintain, and scale planning tools for deployment specialists and customers, contributing to the company's growth and impact.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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