Lead of Software Engineering, Nextdoor
Core Services
$220-285k
+ Equity
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-285k
+ 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 in a high performance distributed systems engineering environment, preferably working closely scaling databases and caches to support fast social product growth, and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
- 1+ years of people management, leading technical teams preferably on a consumer application with frequent release cycles. and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
- Strong technical background with the ability to set longer term architectural priorities while maintaining the ability to break those priorities into deliverable milestones
- Ability to drive a strong sense of ownership across the team, build and maintain strong execution cadences, and motivate the team celebrating wins and learning from experiments
- Experience guiding teams through planning, prioritization, and execution of work
- Collaborative, thoughtful, and strategic leadership; comfortable with open communication and giving/receiving constructive feedback respectfully
- Empathy and customer obsession for collaborating with other infra and product teams across the company
What the job involves
- As the Engineering Manager for the Core Services team, you will lead the team which is responsible for Nextdoor's highest throughput and most critical services
- You'll define Nextdoor's strategic approach to building and hosting highly scalable, cloud native data stores, and have an opportunity to work on systems at a scale of millions of QPS
- The primary focus of the team is an iterative investment in a distributed, globally replicated graph store with highly available tiered caching
- This datastore will provide predictable performance and aims to enable product engineers to move quickly without thinking about RDBMS database performance/migrations and will enable a fundamental architectural shift at Nextdoor towards a globally available single distributed application
- The Core Platform team focuses on creating a delightful developer experience that empowers engineers to build their features quickly and safely
- We build paved roads so that product engineers can focus their efforts on building features that serve our neighbors and drive our business
- We create infrastructure that makes the easy things work out of the box and the hard things possible
- We build performance and scalability into the platform itself so that the application is safe and fast by default
- Providing technical guidance and technical contribution to shape one of Nextdoor’s most ambitious technical projects
- Scaling an engineering team with a culture of high technical performance and pragmatic decision making
- Balancing individual technical contributions with leverage through the engineering team you support
- Participation 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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