Flock Safety is a leading safety technology platform that helps communities thrive by taking a proactive approach to crime prevention and security. The company is hiring a Senior Software Engineer to build Night Shift, a conversational AI assistant that helps investigators surface critical evidence and close cases faster.
Requirements
- Love for coding and continuous learning, especially in the rapidly evolving LLM space
- Resourceful problem-solver mindset: excel in ambiguous situations and take initiative to define product direction
- Strong TypeScript / Node / Express skills for web services and API design (REST, SSE, WebSockets for streaming)
- Modern web framework expertise (React / TypeScript preferred), particularly for conversational UI and chat interfaces
- Hands-on LLM experience: OpenAI/Anthropic/Gemini APIs, prompt engineering, streaming responses, and conversation context management
- Familiarity with agentic patterns: function calling, tool use (MCP), and orchestrating multi-step workflows
- API integration skills: consume existing APIs or design new ones to ground AI in investigative data
- Database confidence: PostgreSQL and sophisticated SQL for data retrieval
- Cloud infrastructure basics: Docker, Kubernetes (Helm), AWS services (S3, SQS, API Gateway)
- Product-minded: translate user feedback into technical requirements and make pragmatic tradeoffs
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 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.
