Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Flock is dedicated to building technology that reduces crime and protects privacy. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer with expertise in Golang and distributed backend systems to contribute to architectural discussions and build reliable backend systems.

Responsibilities

• Understand team workflows and processes
• Meet with key stakeholders
• Understand Aviation products and service architecture
• Ability to perform in role with minimal or no guidance
• Participate in API and service architecture reviews
• Contribute to platform architecture improvements and code quality initiatives
• Support platform improvements and scalability projects
• Lead a database and service performance optimization effort
• Act as a technical lead for a mid-sized Go microservice project

Skills

• 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.

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