Flock Cover

Our insurance / risk intelligence startup seeks full-stack developers interested in building systems in a mix of Haskell, OCaml, typed JavaScript (Flow / TypeScript), React Native and PostgreSQL. Flock provides drone operators both risk insights for individual flights and the ability to purchase micro-duration, 'real-time' insurance policies in case of crashes or vehicle loss. Large drones that fail in the wrong place, the wrong time can cause enormous amounts of damage, so our platform uses insurance pricing to incentivise smarter behaviour and reward careful pilots with cheaper insurance costs. We are seed funded, are seeking series A, and have an engineering team of five. Presently our team makeup is of quite senior engineers, but we are very open to recruiting enthusiastic mid-weight and junior developers, particularly if you have an interest in type systems and functional programming. Why Haskell? Because we think strong type systems, static analysis and provability are the best ways to ensure the reliability needed in financial services without sacrificing our ability to rapidly develop and deliver continuously. These are our core engineering values, and they matter to us far more than existing knowledge of particular languages and frameworks. As such, we require no prior commercial Haskell experience, just a polyglot attitude and a broad familiarity with functional programming (perhaps in languages like JavaScript, Scala, Clojure or F#). JS experience would be helpful but is again not essential.