Engineering Manager - Fleet (Player-Coach Role)

What You'll Own

Lead a team of software engineers, supporting their career growth, managing sprint execution, and driving high-performing team dynamics.

• Drive technical strategy, roadmap planning, and microservices design across device monitoring, alerting, and internal health tools.
• Write full-stack code using TypeScript, Node.js, and React to deliver real-time dashboards, web services, and robust APIs.
• Build and manage containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes (via Helm), and AWS managed services (S3, API Gateway, SQS).
• Leverage modern AI-assisted development tools (GitHub Copilot, Claude, Cursor, etc.) to streamline workflows and boost team delivery speed.

What This Role Is Not

• This isn't a hands-off, purely administrative management job. You will actively review code, contribute to the stack, and solve complex architectural challenges alongside your team.
• This is not an RF hardware or field service management position. You will build the software platform, metric engines, and real-time monitoring infrastructure that power physical device operations.
• This isn't an isolated feature-building role. You will work cross-functionally across multiple engineering and operations teams to solve high-visibility, mission-critical scaling problems.

What You Bring

• Proven track record leading, managing, or mentoring software engineers with a strong focus on team growth and constructive feedback.
• Strong hands-on coding ability with TypeScript / Node.js for backend web services and modern frontend frameworks like React.
• Solid SQL database experience and hands-on familiarity with cloud environments (AWS S3, API Gateway, SQS) and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Helm).
• Strategic mindset with experience designing microservices, managing dependencies, and turning complex unknowns into actionable plans.
• Practical comfort using modern AI-assisted engineering tools to optimize team velocity and personal development output.

Why Flock

Every community deserves to be safe. Flock builds the technology that makes that real: last year we supported over 1 million criminal investigations and helped locate more than 10,000 missing people. We're 1,700 people building the impossible with over $1B in funding, and the expectations are high on purpose. If you want a role where the stakes are real and the pace matches, this is it.

Some problems get solved faster in the same room, so we prioritize candidates in Atlanta and Boston. Hub-based roles mean real in-person time with your coworkers. Remote roles exist, and when a posting is open to remote work, it says so.