Senior Android Software Engineer, Mobile

Flock Safety is the leading safety technology platform focused on proactive crime prevention and security. They are seeking a Senior Android Software Engineer to support, maintain, and improve their Android app, which is used daily by thousands of users.

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:

• Multiple years of native Android experience having worked on multiple apps shipped to the play store
• Experience shipping and maintaining a mobile app over an extended period of time - working with mobile apps at scale or having helped apps scale to millions of users is a plus!
• A passion for programming alongside strong problem-solving and architecture abilities
• A love for technology, and an insatiable curiosity for new tools to solve real problems
• Experience with the following technologies: Kotlin, Coroutines, Jetpack Compose, Retrofit, Push Notifications
• Ability to obtain and maintain Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) certification as a condition of employment
• Applicants must meet all FBI CJIS Security Policy requirements, including a fingerprint-based background check
• Swift or NodeJS is a plus!