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
- Asking questions in a public way to spread knowledge; i.e. public slack channels, etc
- Ability to perform the role with decreased need for guidance: Come up with options of solutions instead of “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
- To-do: Add decent-sized feature
- Able to explain 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
- Be comfortable picking up engineering tasks of larger size and more ambiguity
- Communicating across multiple teams to solve problems efficiently
- Contributing ideas for how we build better software
- Participate in software engineering demo day by presenting a topic that you worked on in the last few months.
Requirements
- Experience with Go and Typescript (Node) web services
- Experience with microservice-oriented architecture and designing systems at scale – We process over 1 billion images daily in real-time.
- Strong backend/database and pub/sub experience, we leverage Postgres DB, OpenSearch, Redis (use the right tool for the job)
- Experience with AWS and cloud tooling such as Kubernetes (EKS), AWS Lambda, Docker
- Ability to work cross-functionally with other engineering and product teams
Nice to Have
- 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
- 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. In 2025, Flock will provide a $ 50,000-lifetime maximum benefit related to eligible adoption, surrogacy, or fertility expenses.
- 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: $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.
Work Arrangement
Hybrid
Additional Information
- Studies have shown women and minorities are less likely to apply unless they meet all qualifications. We encourage you to break the status quo and apply to roles that would make you excited to come to work every day.
- 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.
