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About the Role
Nextdoor is the essential neighborhood network, connecting neighbors, public agencies, and businesses. We build innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale. We operate in an AI-first environment and expect every team member to actively use AI tools as part of their workflow. We offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment model.
Responsibilities
- Write clean, efficient, and well-documented code following industry best practices.
- Develop and execute unit, integration, and functional tests.
- Optimize code, improve system performance, and refactor applications.
- Create and maintain technical documentation for software applications and APIs.
- Implement security best practices and ensure software compliance.
- Utilize version control systems and CI/CD pipelines for deployment.
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events such as trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and team building exercises.
- Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to Nextdoor’s company culture.
Requirements
- Performing backend development, including designing, building, and maintaining highly available, low-latency web services for large-scale consumer-facing systems using programming languages including Python, Java and Kotlin and web frameworks including Django and Spring.
- Debugging and monitoring production systems using advanced SQL, including writing complex joins, filters, and aggregations over large log and metrics datasets across many tables to investigate production errors, anomalies, and regression patterns.
- Containerizing and deploying large distributed backend services using Docker in orchestration environments such as Kubernetes and Amazon ECS, including image optimization, resource tuning, and runtime troubleshooting.
- Utilizing Git-based trunk or trunk-like workflows and CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment, including Git repositories and CI/CD systems, and configuring pipeline stages for unit, integration, and canary or staged rollouts.
- Designing, implementing, and consuming RESTful or gRPC APIs for high-traffic services, including versioned, backward-compatible interfaces, authentication/authorization, and schema evolution used by multiple internal microservices and clients.
- Utilizing application monitoring, centralized logging, and performance profiling tools to create dashboards and alerts and to investigate latency, error-rate, and throughput issues in production services.
- Utilizing Linux and networking fundamentals, including TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, and debugging production issues using standard Linux diagnostic tools.
- Utilizing caching systems, including Redis and Memcached, and distributed queues, including Kafka and SQS, to design resilient, high-throughput backend architectures.
- Designing and maintaining automated test suites, including unit, integration, and end-to-end tests, using appropriate test frameworks for Java, Kotlin, and Python services, and integrating these tests into CI/CD pipelines.
Skills
- Python
- Java
- Kotlin
- Django
- Spring
- SQL
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Amazon ECS
- Git
- CI/CD
- RESTful APIs
- gRPC APIs
- Linux
- TCP/IP
- HTTP/HTTPS
- Redis
- Memcached
- Kafka
- SQS
Location
- San Francisco
- Los Angeles
- Chicago
- Dallas
- New York
- London
- New York City metro area (remote option)
Work Type
- Hybrid
- Remote (up to 2 days/week from NYC metro area)
Experience Level
- Three (3) years of experience in the position offered, as a Software/Systems Engineer, or closely related position.
- Alternatively, Bachelor’s degree and five (5) years of progressive, post-baccalaureate, experience in the above positions.
- Any suitable combination of education, training, or experience is acceptable.
Education Level
- Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a closely related field.
- Bachelor’s degree
Salary/Compensations
- Starting salary expected to be $200,000 on an annualized basis.
- Compensation will vary depending on relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
- Salary range will be determined by the candidate’s geographic location.
Benefits
- Meaningful equity grant with quarterly vesting.
- Variety of health plans, including a 100% covered employee only plan option.
- OneMedical membership for concierge care.
About the Company
- Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network.
- Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information 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.
Equal Opportunity
- 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.