Senior Software Engineer - Android

About the position

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, MVVM and GraphQL. 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.

Responsibilities

• Develop and improve networking, analytics, experiments, modular app structure, and testing infrastructure.
• Make direct contributions to Nextdoor's product.
• Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the engineering culture.
• 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

• 4 to 8 years of experience as an Engineer and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain.
• Expertise in Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
• Strong self-motivation and flexibility with excitement to improve any part of the app.
• Ability to test code with frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso.

Nice-to-haves

• Passionate about Nextdoor's mission and being a good neighbor.
• Familiar with modern networking stack, such as OkHttp, Retrofit, and GraphQL.
• Passion for UI architecture best practices such as MVVM and libraries including Coroutines, MvRx, and Jetpack Compose.
• Familiar with architecting a large app for efficient modularization and dependency injection via Gradle and Dagger.

Benefits

• Starting salary range from $180,000 to $230,000.
• Meaningful equity grant with equal quarterly vesting.
• 100% coverage of personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision.
• OneMedical membership for concierge care.