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Build frontend and backend web experiences, contribute to architecture and testing, collaborate cross-functionally. | 2+ years experience with React and Python/Django, ability to own projects, eagerness to use AI tools. | #TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. Meet Your Future Neighbors In conjunction with product management and design, the engineering team at Nextdoor is responsible for bringing to life the experiences that empower neighbors to build stronger communities and transform how people connect and engage with their local area. Working in small cross-functional teams, you’ll work in an agile environment that values code quality, learning quickly, and personal growth through collaboration and challenge. You will collaborate with front end, back end, data science, infrastructure, and machine learning engineers to collectively improve the state of engineering at Nextdoor. All engineers are invited to join co-ops to facilitate continuous modernization and knowledge sharing. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make As a Fullstack Engineer on Nextdoor’s Local Conversations team, you’ll join the Rewards & Incentives pod and help build product experiences that encourage meaningful participation in neighborhood communities. You’ll work across the frontend and backend, with a strong focus on building high-quality web experiences using React and Python/Django. You’ll contribute to two evolving product areas to start. This is a highly hands-on engineering role. You’ll contribute to entity-relationship modeling, solution architecture, implementation, testing, and iteration, while partnering with product, design, and engineering teammates. You’ll also participate in team operating practices, including a gradual on-call shadow rotation after onboarding and ramp-up. The team will review role-specific expectations with candidates during the hiring process. What You’ll Bring to The Team Experience building and shipping software in a production environment Strong frontend fundamentals and experience with modern JavaScript and React. This is an important part of the role Experience with a server-side web application language; Python/Django experience is strongly preferred Familiarity with SQL and developing across frontend and backend systems Ability to break down product requirements, collaborate on technical approaches, and implement maintainable solutions Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a dynamic environment Interest in contributing ideas and product perspective, not just executing predefined tasks 2+ years of software development experience and a demonstrated ability to own projects with increasing independence. Level will be determined based on experience and demonstrated proficiency Experience with Storybook or other component-driven development practices is a plus Eagerness to explore and apply AI tools and emerging technologies to reimagine how work gets done Willingness to participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises, as applicable to your location Interest in building relationships with teammates and contributing to Nextdoor’s culture Rewards Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $135,000- $200,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your level of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location. We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date. When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee-only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care. At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.
Develop Android networking, analytics, testing infrastructure, improve main feed and post tools, mentor juniors, and use AI tools. | 5+ years engineering experience with proficiency in Android development and Kotlin, plus strong networking and UI architecture skills. | #TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network. Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries. Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com. Meet Your Future Neighbors 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, Jetpack Compose, and GraphQL. At Nextdoor, we operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We aren't looking for prompt engineers; we’re looking for people who use tools like Claude, Gemini, ChatGPT, and Glean to challenge their own thinking and take full ownership of AI-assisted outputs. We also offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model, blending an in office presence and work from home experience for our valued employees. The hiring team will go over these expectations with you if you are being considered for a role near one of our offices in San Francisco, Los Angeles, Chicago, Dallas, New York, and London. The Impact You’ll Make 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 Nextdoor’s product. The Feed UX Team is responsible for 75%+ of Nextdoor user traffic. We own the user experience for the main feed and post creation tools. We care about making an incredible Android app that respects platform conventions and is delightful to use. What You’ll Bring To The Team 5+ 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 Desire to mentor junior engineers and enthusiastic about up-leveling our engineering culture 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, MockK, and Roborazzi - just to be safe Bonus Points 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 Apollo GraphQL Passion for UI architecture best practices such as MVI and libraries including Coroutines, Mavericks, and Jetpack Compose Familiar with architecting a large app for efficient modularization and dependency injection via Gradle and Metro You think the only real Android phones are Pixels Rewards Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create our total rewards package. Compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $165,000 to $250,000 USD on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. The salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location. We expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With quarterly vesting, your first vest date will take place within 3 months of your start date. When it comes to benefits, we have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option, and we also provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care. At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we serve. We encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, age, or any other trait that unfairly targets a group of people. In accordance with the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we always consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.
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