Senior Software Engineer - Android

Nextdoor

15h•$165,000 - $250,000•Hybrid

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, 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.

Requirements

5+ years of experience as an Engineer and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
Ability to ship consistently and quickly
Strong self-motivation and flexibility

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 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
Belief that the only real Android phones are Pixels

Responsibilities

Develop and improve our networking, analytics, experiments, modular app structure, and testing infrastructure.
Make direct contributions to Nextdoor’s product.
Own the user experience for the main feed and post creation tools.
Mentor junior engineers and contribute to up-leveling our engineering culture.
Improve any part of the app, from the UI components to the analytics framework.
Test code with frameworks like JUnit, MockK, and Roborazzi.