Software Engineer, Nextdoor

Android

$162-215k

Plus equity

GraphQL
Gradle
Kotlin
Dagger
Espresso
Retrofit
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area
Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

Open for applications

Nextdoor

Private social network for neighbours

501-1000 employees

B2CPrivacyNetworkingSocialSaaS

Open for applications

$162-215k

Plus equity

GraphQL
Gradle
Kotlin
Dagger
Espresso
Retrofit
Junior and Mid level
San Francisco Bay Area

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

  • 2+ years of experience as an Engineer and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
  • You crave enchanting Nextdoor’s users with delightful, polished, and bug-free features, but you know how to ship consistently and quickly
  • Strong self-motivation and flexibility with excitement to improve any part of the app, from the UI components to the analytics framework
  • You make a point to test your obviously bug-free code with frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso - just to be safe
  • 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
  • Desire to mentor junior engineers and enthusiastic about up-leveling our engineering culture

Desirable

  • Passionate about Nextdoor’s mission and being a good neighbor
  • Expertise in Kotlin and leveraging its features to increase the safety and clarity of our codebase
  • Familiar with modern networking stack, such as OkHttp, Retrofit, and GraphQL
  • Passion for UI architecture best practices such as MVI and libraries including Coroutines, MvRx, and Jetpack Compose
  • Familiar with architecting a large app for efficient modularization and dependency injection via Gradle and Dagger

What the job involves

  • As an Android Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a fast moving team of developers, product managers, and designers who are passionate about using technology to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbor they can rely on
  • The Nextdoor Android team works on features and infrastructure to deliver our values to our members. We care about making an incredible Android app that respects platform conventions and is delightful to use. We’re always trying to move faster and more safely, by adopting the latest practices, such as Kotlin, MVI and GraphQL
  • We believe in empowering our teams to own all aspects of bringing Nextdoor to life. As such, you’ll get the opportunity to make key contributions across our Android stack - this includes developing and improving our networking, analytics, experiments, modular app structure, and testing infrastructure - in addition to making direct contributions to Nextdoors product
  • We believe engineers should have a stake over all aspects of the product - from coming up with the next big ideas to build, through helping set expectations and plan roadmaps, all the way through understanding the impact of new features through rigorous data analysis
  • As your career at Nextdoor develops, you’ll also get the chance to mentor other team members, and grow your role towards what you’re most passionate about

Otta's take

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Xav Kearney

CTO of Otta

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.

Insights

Top investors

Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks

8% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (2 rounds)

May 2019

$126.8m

Dec 2017

$77.4m

Total funding: $204.2m

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

Founders

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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