Senior Software Engineer at Flock – London, Texas

At Flock we do insurance very differently. We're nearing 1 billion connected, insured miles.

Meaning our real-time, data-driven approach enables us to price connected vehicle insurance and assess risk better than ever before, giving fleet owners the insights they need to improve safety. We dont just pay claims; we help our customers prevent them. We now insure hundreds of fleets in the UK, including the likes of Amazon, DPD, Uber and Bolt.

We've now raised over 50M and our goal is to become the leading insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles, and we're building a world-class team to help us get there.

Join Flock as a Senior Software Engineer on our Growth & Trading team, where youll play a pivotal role in building and developing the services that support our policies and drive our business.

Senior ownership of core services and systems

Lead design, build and operation of critical backend services for Growth & Trading.

Write high-quality, well-tested TypeScript, shape PostgreSQL schemas and own delivery to production.

Shape architecture for scale, reliability and cost

Drive architecture and platform decisions for scalable, reliable and cost-effective AWS services.

Make pragmatic trade-offs and introduce patterns that improve maintainability and operability.

Partner across product and the business to deliver impact

Work closely with product, data and commercial teams to translate needs into technical scope, define success metrics and guide trade-offs to deliver measurable, customer-focused outcomes.

Raise engineering quality and capability

Lead by example through code and design discussions, mentoring and pairing.

Encourage practical testing, CI/CD, type-safe APIs and pragmatic functional patterns to raise standards and shape long-term direction.

As a Senior Engineer at Flock you will own problems end to end, from design and build to deployment and measuring impact, working with engineers to keep our codebase clean and maintainable.

API-Driven Development

Integrate with and contribute to the development of RESTful APIs exposed via API Gateway.

Collaborate with backend engineers to shape APIs that efficiently serve data-intensive views.

Serverless & Cloud Infrastructure

Use your AWS experience (SQS, Lambda, API Gateway, S3, EventBridge, CloudWatch) to support and extend the telemetry data ingestion and delivery pipeline.

Work with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CDK for provisioning long-lived resources.

Collaboration & Agile Delivery

Work closely with product managers and engineers to scope, deliver, and test features.

Participate in daily standups, sprint planning, and retrospectives in our Agile process.

Code Quality & Mentorship

Deliver high-quality, well-tested code and raise the teams standards by contributing to and leading code reviews, pairing sessions and design discussions mentoring and supporting other engineers through practical, technical feedback.

Share your knowledge and support the growth of engineers across the team, act as a force-multiplier by driving best practices and shaping long-term technical decisions for our engineering community.

Working hand-in-hand with your product manager, youll bring clarity to complex problems and help define sharply scoped, impactful deliverables. Your success wont be measured by output alone, but by the lasting impact you make on our customers and on the team around you.

25 days of holiday (+ Bank Holidays)

Workplace Pension

Private Medical Insurance (including Optical & Mental Health )

Various Salary Sacrifice Schemes - Workplace Nursery, Holiday Purchase, Tech, Gym, Cycle to Work, Electric Vehicle, Private Medical Insurance for families

Enhanced Parental Leave and Pay

1000 toward relevant professional qualifications

500 per annum towards learning and development

3 days paid leave for L&D purposes

At Flock, we typically follow a hybrid working model involving a minimum of 3 days per week spent in the office, which is based in Central London, a few minutes walk from Moorgate and Liverpool Street.

Authenticity is important to us. We value the unique qualities and experiences you bring. So if you apply, just be your genuine self. It's who we want!