Senior Software Engineer - Android

Nextdoor is a neighborhood network that connects neighbors, public agencies, and businesses around local information and community connections. The Senior Software Engineer will develop and improve Nextdoor’s Android application and infrastructure, contributing to networking, analytics, experiments, modular app structure, testing infrastructure, and product features. The role will support the Feed UX experience and mentor junior engineers while helping improve engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• 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
• 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

Requirements:

• 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
• 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