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, MVI 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. We believe engineers should have a stake over all aspects of the product - from coming up with the next big ideas to build, through helping set expectations and plan roadmaps, all the way through understanding the impact of new features through rigorous data analysis. As your career at Nextdoor develops, you'll also get the chance to mentor other team members, and grow your role towards what you're most passionate about.
Responsibilities
- Develop and improve networking, analytics, experiments, modular app structure, and testing infrastructure for the Android app.
- Contribute to the overall product development and feature implementation.
- Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team-building exercises.
- Mentor junior engineers and contribute to the engineering culture.
Requirements
- 2+ years of experience as an Engineer or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain.
- Strong self-motivation and flexibility with excitement to improve any part of the app, from the UI components to the analytics framework.
- Experience with testing frameworks like JUnit, Mockito, and Espresso.
Nice-to-haves
- Passionate about Nextdoor's mission and being a good neighbor.
- Expertise in Kotlin and leveraging its features to increase the safety and clarity of the codebase.
- Familiar with modern networking stack, such as OkHttp, Retrofit, and GraphQL.
- Passion for UI architecture best practices such as MVI 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 $225,000 annually, potentially greater based on proficiency.
- Meaningful equity grant with equal quarterly vesting.
- 100% coverage of personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision insurance.
- OneMedical membership for concierge care.
