Engineering Manager, Nextdoor
Growth
$220-270k
+ Equity
More information about location
Private social network for neighbours
Open for applications
Private social network for neighbours
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$220-270k
+ Equity
More information about location
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
- 2+ years experience managing engineering teams, with a proven ability to hire and develop high-performing engineers—ideally within growth-focused or consumer product environments
- Experience with A/B testing and growth experimentation frameworks
- Experience in user-generated content product development is a plus
- 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
What the job involves
- We are looking for an Engineering Manager to lead our high-impact Traffic Team. This team is on the front line of growth: the features you ship will be the very first touchpoint for millions of new users joining Nextdoor
- Attract and engage new users globally by evolving our user acquisition and SEO strategies
- Oversee the design, development, and maintenance of external integrations and sharing experiences that drive traffic to and from Nextdoor
- Lead, mentor, and support a team of engineers, guiding their growth and development
- Partner cross-functionally with world-class product, data, and design peers to deliver, measure, and continuously optimize high-impact features
- Lead and inspire a team of engineers responsible for building and maintaining critical onboarding and traffic-driving features
- Develop and execute strategies to grow organic traffic—including SEO, content sharing, user invites, and third-party integrations
- Guide your team in delivering reliable, high-scale full stack solutions that serve millions of interactions each week
- Discover unique data insights to enhance and personalize content experiences for our users
- Collaborate closely with Product, Data Science, and Design to deliver measurable results and delight our community
- Mentor, recruit, and develop engineering talent to build a high-performing, engaged team
- Drive operational excellence by setting and achieving key metrics for the Traffic team
- Participate in cross-functional brainstorms, design reviews, and inspiring team activities—both virtually and in person
- Engage in company culture through events, volunteer days, and team-building exercises, fostering strong, in-person relationships within our KIND culture
- Play a key role throughout the entire product development lifecycle—from strategy and prototyping to launch and iteration
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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Insights
8% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2019
$134m
Dec 2017
$81.7m
Total funding: $215.7m
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 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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