Principal Backend Software Engineer, Nextdoor
$180-275k
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$180-275k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Nextdoor’s mission is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighbourhood they can rely on.
Role
Who you are
- 8+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
- High-initiative leader who can drive technical vision to enable the rapid iteration of Nextdoor’s product
- Strong coding and debugging abilities across multiple systems and domains
- Experience designing, building and deploying flexible backend systems at scale
- Strong desire to learn about new technologies and systems
What the job involves
- On the Feed Infrastructure team you’ll build high performing, scalable systems that power delivering each neighbor a customized feed in a timely and efficient manner. We utilize Python, Kotlin, and Go to build out various functionality we provide such as our Feed Ranking/ML pipeline, GraphQL API, and ancillary services. You’ll be in a highly visible role that will deliver a measurable impact on a core part of our application and Nextdoor as a business
- You’ll help lead the team in re-architecting our feed infrastructure with eyes towards the future while collaborating internally with product managers, data scientists, and other engineering leaders. 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 grow your role towards what you’re most passionate about
- Your responsibilities will include:
- Backend development in a variety of languages/frameworks including: Python/Django, Kotlin / JVM, Go, SQL, GraphQL, Redis, Postgres, Kafka, AWS
- Mentoring a team of talented engineers designing and building the next generation of Nextdoor
- Collaborating with product management, data science, and design to ensure we build the right things to maximize impact on neighbors
- Working with engineers in New York, San Francisco and beyond
Otta's take
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
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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