Senior Backend Software Engineer, Nextdoor
$153-212k
Plus equity
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$153-212k
Plus equity
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
- 5+ years of experience as a Software Engineer and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, or equivalent work experience
- Self-starter who thrives in an ambiguous environment and focuses on delivering impact for our neighbors
- Strong coding abilities in at least one language. Python or Kotlin experience preferred
- Experience building and deploying flexible backend systems at scale
- Strong collaboration and communication skills
- Strong desire to learn about new technologies and systems
What the job involves
- As a Software Engineer at Nextdoor, you’ll join a focused 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
- We are a small, high performing team of engineers that wear multiple hats and prioritize impact for our customers
- We care about moving fast and delivering impact, without compromising on quality and reliability as guided by our Engineering Principles
- You will have the opportunity to learn from your co-workers and teach them
- As a team, we will make each other better and build great software
- At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees
- 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 engineering stack - this includes developing and improving frameworks across our frontend and backend services, in addition to making direct contributions to your team’s product area
- In addition to writing code, you’ll have the opportunity to help define the features that we build, through collaboration internally, and in some cases, talking to our customers and members to understand how we can better serve them
- You’ll also get the chance to collaborate with product managers and designers to drive Nextdoor forward
- 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
- Backend development in a variety of languages/frameworks including:
- Python/Django
- Kotlin / JVM
- SQL
- GraphQL
- Redis
- Postgres
- Kafka
- AWS
- Collaborating with product management, data science, and design to ensure we build the right things to maximize impact on neighbors
- Working with other engineering teams in Toronto, San Francisco and beyond
- 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
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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Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$124.7m
Dec 2017
$76m
Total funding: $200.7m
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
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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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