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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