Who is Flock?

Flock Safety is an all-in-one technology solution to eliminate crime and keep communities safe. Our intelligent platform combines the power of communities at scale - including cities, businesses, schools, and law enforcement agencies - to shape a safer future together. Our full-service, maintenance-free technology solution is trusted by communities across the country to help solve and deter crime in the pursuit of safer communities for everyone.

Our holistic public safety platform is comprehensive and intelligent, providing the actionable evidence needed to solve, deter and reduce crime across neighborhoods, schools, businesses and entire cities. Without compromising transparency or privacy, we are turning unbiased data into objective answers.

Flock strives to offer a career-defining experience where you can also make an impact on your community. While safety is a serious business, we are a supportive team that is optimizing the remote experience to create strong and fulfilling relationships even when we are physically apart. Our group of hard-working employees thrive in a positive and inclusive environment, where a bias towards action is rewarded. 

We have raised over $500M in venture capital from investors including Tiger Global, Andreessen Horowitz, Matrix Partners, Meritech Capital Partners, and Initialized Capital. Now surpassing a $5.5B valuation, Flock is scaling intentionally and seeking the best and brightest to help us meet our goal of reducing crime in the United States by 25% in the next three years.

The Role

As Flock continues to introduce new products and customer expectations of our products increase we have a growing need to increase the maturity, coverage, and velocity of our quality testing. This role seeks to expand the capabilities of our Device Quality Engineering Organization, where you will help build a highly scalable and stable test automation framework to test the Flock Safety cameras, software, and devices.  In this role, you will help develop building blocks of automation tools, infrastructure, and tests that will test the devices for functionality, stability, and best performance. These tests will be used as part of Continuous Integration(CI), factory, and field testing. You will have an opportunity to contribute to the foundation of the framework/tests for many of Flock’s products.

How you’ll make an impact: 

• Help with development of components of automation framework, automation tools, and test scripts aligning to the overall test automation strategy that promotes Continuous Integration, software Performance/Stability, and Factory testing of Flock devices

• Understand the architecture of Flock Safety devices and help enhance the device software/hardware quality and stability using test automation scripts

• Develop and maintain automated test scripts for daily smoke, functional, performance, reliability, and stress scenarios in an automated fashion

• Identify automation opportunities in manual test scenarios and implement automated tests

• Analyze automation test results and log defects against software and hardware

We’re looking for people who: 

• Bring experience in software development and test automation experience with embedded systems devices.

• Holds strong knowledge of common black box & white box software testing methodologies, tools, and processes

• Have experience in testing hardware devices (both production and prototype).

• Holds knowledge of Android Development tools such as Android Studios, and adb.

• Hold a solid grasp on Kotlin, Java, Python 3.0, shell, and SQL/Database concepts.

• Possess knowledge of Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC), software testing, software testing strategies and automation concepts

• Are familiar with HW/SW architecture and interoperability of complex embedded systems such as mobile phones.

• Have experience with automated test frameworks, like Pyunit or PyTest, Espresso, or other Android Test Automation Frameworks.

• Have the ability to identify root causes for defects and provide meaningful feedback to development teams

• Has experience doing test strategies and test planning.

• Holds strong communication and interpersonal skills. Both verbal and written.

• Have experience with common QA tools such as Tricentis, Jira and confluence. 

Bonuses:

• ISTQB Foundation Level Certification and Agile Tester Level Certification a huge plus

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related fields

90 Days at Flock

We are a results-oriented culture and believe job descriptions are a thing of the past. We prescribe to 90 day plans and believe that good days lead to good weeks, which lead to good months. This serves as a preview of the 90 day plan you will receive if you were to be hired as a Software Developer in Test at Flock Safety. 

The First 30 Days

• Learn as much as possible about Flock’s devices, cloud systems, and customer requirements

• Familiarize yourself with members of the Engineering Team

• Understand Flock device product goals and system design

• Set up development environment and start to contribute to test case development

The First 60 Days 

• Take increasing responsibility for product quality via automation for one of our devices and reducing new alarms/cases generated for the software/hardware.  

• Develop automated tests that will address the “low hanging fruits” for defects and help the engineering team fix the issues. 

• Create a funnel of automation test case candidates from manual test cases.

90 Days & Beyond 

• Propose ideas on how to expand our test coverage in the areas of CI, regression, and stability testing. 

The Interview Process 

We want our interview process to be a true reflection of our culture: transparent and collaborative. Throughout the interview process, your recruiter will guide you through the next steps and ensure you feel prepared every step of the way. 

1. Our First Chat: During this first conversation, you’ll meet with a recruiter to chat through your background, what you could bring to Flock, what you are looking for in your next role, and who we are. 

2. The Technical Assessment: You will meet with a potential future coworker to really dive into the role, the team, expectations, and what success means at Flock. You should expect the interview will cover the hard skills required to do the job, an architectural discussion, and an exploration of your past accomplishments and experiences. This is your chance to really nerd out with someone in your field. 

3. The Panel: Learn more about the team, responsibilities, and workflows. You should be prepared to speak about past projects, how you collaborate and communicate with others, and how you live our values. You will meet with several teammates and cross-functional partners. Engineers should expect a technical assessment through coding interviews or architecture discussions. Your recruiter will provide more details to ensure you are fully prepared for your big day. 

4. The Executive Review: A chance to meet a leader within the Device Software team. They will be looking to get to know you better, understand your motivations, and understand your technical background. Be prepared to ask well-thought-out questions about the company, culture, and more. 

The Perks

💰Salary & Equity: In this role, you’ll receive a starting salary of $95,000-$130,000 as well as stock options

🌴Use what you need PTO: We seriously mean it, plus 11 company holidays and your birthday off!

⚕️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. We will reimburse $10,000 a year for adoption, surrogacy, or infertility.

🧠Mental Health: All employees receive an annual subscription to Headspace

💖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. 

💻WFH Stipend: $150 per month to cover the costs of working from home.

📚L&D 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.

🐾Pet Insurance: We’ve partnered with Pumpkin to provide insurance for our employee’s fur babies. 

Flock is an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diverse backgrounds and thoughts and welcome everyone to apply for employment with us. We are committed to fostering an environment that is inclusive, transparent, and collaborative. Mutual respect is central to how Flock operates, and we believe the best solutions come from diverse perspectives, experiences, and skills. We embrace our differences and know that we are stronger working together.

If you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please email us at [email protected]. This information will be treated as confidential and used only to determine an appropriate accommodation for the interview process.