Senior Software Engineer, Pipeline

Flock is a technology company focused on reducing crime and protecting privacy through innovative solutions. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to enhance their pipeline team, responsible for data processing and architectural design within a high-scale backend ecosystem to support their growing customer base and data volume.

Responsibilities:

• Understand current processes and procedures
• Work on small tasks for the sprint with support
• Work towards understanding how the pipeline at Flock works
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to gain context on how they leverage the pipeline
• Ask questions in a public way to spread knowledge (e.g., public Slack channels)
• Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options and solutions instead of asking 'what should I do?'
• High-level understanding of the features we are working on
• Understand the software design philosophies being used
• Be comfortable navigating through the code base
• Engaged during technical conversations to increase the quality of input
• Able to contribute to each of the pipeline services’ purpose
• Have 3-5 ideas of where you see risk (stability, features, process, etc.)
• Ability to perform role with little guidance with transparency, taking on larger size and more ambiguous engineering tasks
• Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
• Contributing ideas for how we build better software with foresight and flexibility
• Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months

Requirements:

• 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 (ownership mindset)
• Deep proficiency in TypeScript backend patterns (Node.js, async behavior, typing complex data structures)
• Proficiency or a strong willingness to scale up quickly in Go, as the team is actively migrating to be more Go-heavy in the future
• Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing distributed systems at scale (handling heavy traffic load and massive data ingestion)
• Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, leveraging Postgres DB, OpenSearch, DynamoDB, and Redis. Ability to tune and optimize PostgreSQL performance when multiple services are interacting with it
• Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), SQS, SNS, and Docker
• Excellent cross-functional communication and collaboration skills, with a proven track record of working tightly with adjacent teams such as Hardware, ML, Web, Mobile, and Data Science
• Experience acting as a domain expert, mentoring junior engineers through code reviews, finding teaching moments, and making the success of the team a bigger priority