Engineering Manager, Nextdoor

Content Ingestion

$220-285k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

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Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$220-285k

+ Equity

Mid and Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

More information about location

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Company mission

Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.

Role

Who you are

  • 1+ years of people management and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
  • Track record of hiring, building and developing high performance engineers
  • Experience in content ingestion and/or user-generated content product development
  • Bring a deep empathy for customer needs and insights as well as an intuitive grasp of the business problems we’re trying to solve
  • Comfort working across the product development spectrum: strategy, ideation, concept work, up to the delivery of the consumption experience
  • Track record of engineering excellence and operations (monitoring, alarming, sev, post-mortem, etc) for your team
  • Experience with Content Ingestion products is a big plus

What the job involves

  • As the Engineering Manager of the Content Ingestion team at Nextdoor, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring a seamless, efficient, and high-quality experience as content flows into our platform
  • You will lead a talented team of engineers to architect, develop, and maintain complex data ingestion and processing pipelines that support our community-driven approach
  • This role is crucial, as the quality and reliability of content ingestion directly impact the user experience on our platform
  • Content Ingestion is a new engineering team we are building and we are looking for a tech lead for it
  • The team will grow to ~8 engineers. We expect the tech lead for this new team to start focusing on hiring + actively supporting implementation
  • As you are successful with hiring, your focus will shift more to people management while continuing to make technical contributions
  • Lead and manage a team of engineers
  • Work with Feed and other Nextdoor other tech leads to architect the content ingestion systems
  • You’ll partner closely with Feed ML & Infra leaders to deliver a tightly integrated content ingestion to Feed consumption experience
  • Make significant technical contributions to the implementation of the ingestion system
  • Architect and oversee the development of scalable and reliable feed infrastructure that supports seamless interactions for millions of users
  • You’ll be involved in all aspects of the product development for a major product area; from strategy, research, prototyping, concept to interaction design, to final QA and code tweaks right before launch
  • You’ll participate in cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, design reviews and interesting and inspiring design team activities
  • Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
  • Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values
  • Participate in hiring outstanding talent and develop the engineering resources in the organization
  • You’ll own and drive operational metrics of Content Ingestion

Our take

Nextdoor is a private social network that aims to encourage social interaction between neighbours and make people aware of crime in their area.

The social network has had huge success in the United States and has expanded internationally, with Nextdoor now present in more than 242,000 neighbourhoods around the world.

The company's main competition comes from local Facebook groups, which have become less and less popular due to their comparative lack of functionality. Nextdoor's laser focus on building for neighborhoods has helped them to build a better product, and their advertising partnership with Oracle, launched in 2022, will help bring more transparency to Nextdoor's sponsorships.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$129.1m

Dec 2017

$78.8m

Total funding: $207.9m

Company benefits

  • Monthly wellness stipend
  • 12 weeks of parental, family or medical leave
  • Global end of year shutdown
  • Learning and development stipend
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Earn trust every day
  • Invest in community
  • Customer obsessed
  • Think big
  • Experiment and learn quickly
  • Act like an owner

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Prakash Janakiraman

(Advisor & Co-founder)

Graduated from the University of California, Berkeley before working in engineering roles at Google and as the co-founder of Fanbase.com

David Weisen

(Engineer & Co-founder)

Worked as a software engineer at Google, Fanbase.com and Open Harbour after graduating from Stanford with a degree in Computer Science

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