Senior Software Engineer

3 weeks ago


San Francisco, United States Nextdoor Full time

#TeamNextdoor

Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.

Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby — neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.

Meet Your Future Neighbors

The Blocks team builds and maintains the Design System and the UI Framework upon which other teams build the user experience. Our goal is to provide an ecosystem of tools, technologies, and components that make it easy for product teams to build a delightful, polished, and consistent user experience. As part of the Core Platform team, our mission is to create a delightful developer experience that empowers teams to build their features quickly and safely. We build paved roads so that product engineers can focus their efforts on building features that serve our neighbors and drive our business. We create infrastructure that makes the easy things work out of the box and the hard things possible. We build performance and scalability into the platform itself so that Nextdoor is safe and fast by default. The Blocks team collaborates directly with teams across the company to enable them to move faster and to help drive adoption of the shared components.

At Nextdoor, we offer a warm and inclusive work environment that embraces a hybrid employment experience, providing a flexible experience for our valued employees.  

The Impact You’ll Make

As a Senior Front End Engineer on the Blocks team, you will be responsible for contributing to the architecture, usability, and reliability of Blocks, Nextdoor’s Design System. We are building a new Web Design System from the ground up. You will build and maintain UI foundation and components, improve Front End infrastructure, and support product engineers. You will also collaborate closely with our designers to provide polished and delightful user experience. Future projects include building a new documentation website and a responsive grid layout component.

What you’ll bring to the Team, including your responsibilities: 

  • 6+ years of Software Development experience, and/or the ability to perform at an advanced level in the domain
  • Expertise in modern TypeScript, JavaScript, React, and CSS
  • Ability to design and implement heavily used services and systems
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills, both verbal and written
  • Experience working on Design Systems: building and maintaining reusable UI foundation and components is a plus
  • ARIA and accessibility experience is a plus 
  • Experience with CI/CD systems and testing frameworks is a plus
  • Expertise in at least one server-side web application language is a plus. Python/Django, Java, and SQL experience is a plus
  • Strong desire to learn new technologies
  • Ability to be flexible and adaptable in a dynamic startup environment
  • Ability to mentor junior engineers across teams
  • Participate in in-person Nextdoor events, trainings, off-sites, volunteer days, and other team building exercises
  • Build in-person relationships with team members and contribute to the KIND culture that Nextdoor values  

Rewards

Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.

The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $170,000 to $215,000 USD and $177,000 to $195,000 CAD on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.

We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.

Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications. We have you covered Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision – and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.

At Nextdoor, we empower our employees to build stronger local communities. To create a platform where all feel welcome, we want our workforce to reflect the diversity of the neighbors we seek to serve. We encourage everyone interested in our purpose 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.

For information about our collection and use of applicants’ personal information, please see Nextdoor's Personnel Privacy Notice, found here.



  • San Francisco, California, United States Bunkerhill Health Full time

    About the roleWe are seeking a talented and enthusiastic Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will work closely with our team to develop, test, and maintain software solutions that meet our clients' needs.Responsibilities:Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand project requirements and translate...


  • San Francisco, United States Accelon Inc Full time

    Job DescriptionJob DescriptionSenior Software Engineer (Hybrid - San Francisco, US)DescriptionOur Partner is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with 7+ years of experience in Software development with the following requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related. Strong hands-on coding experience.7+ years of relevant industry experience...


  • San Francisco, United States Redwood Materials Full time

    About Redwood Materials Redwood Materials was founded in 2017 to create a circular supply chain for electric vehicles and clean energy products, making them more sustainable and driving down the cost for batteries. We’re doing this by developing and deploying new technologies to increase the scope and scale of recycled and sustainable materials in the...


  • San Francisco, United States Calqulate Full time

    About the job Senior Software Engineer Position: Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Integration Responsibilities: Design and develop core cloud platform and integrate with cloud partners. Design and develop complex, highly scalable, distributed applications and systems that form the backbone of our cloud platform. Write APIs to seamlessly integrate...


  • San Francisco, United States Calqulate Full time

    About the job Senior Software Engineer Position: Senior Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Integration Responsibilities: Design and develop core cloud platform and integrate with cloud partners. Design and develop complex, highly scalable, distributed applications and systems that form the backbone of our cloud platform. Write APIs to seamlessly integrate...


  • San Francisco, United States Intelletec Full time

    Our client, a YC-backed company building AI Agents, recently raised funding and is growing its engineering team. It is seeking multiple Software Engineers.EXPERIENCE≥4 years of experience as a significant contributor on an established engineering team and intentionally pursuing early-stage opportunities, or a similar level of experience as the CTO, VP...


  • San Francisco, United States Intelletec Full time

    Our client, a YC-backed company building AI Agents, recently raised funding and is growing its engineering team. It is seeking multiple Software Engineers.EXPERIENCE≥4 years of experience as a significant contributor on an established engineering team and intentionally pursuing early-stage opportunities, or a similar level of experience as the CTO, VP...


  • San Francisco, United States Pallet Service Corporation Full time

    Senior Software Engineer - San Francisco WHO WE ARE Pallet is a company dedicated to disrupting the logistics industry. Located in San Francisco, CA, we've secured $14 million in funding from investors, including Bain Capital Ventures and Bessemer. Our flagship product is a cartage Transportation Management System (TMS) designed to streamline business...


  • San Francisco, United States Cottage Company Full time

    Cottage was founded with the belief that there had to be a better way for homeowners and contractors to work together. We are building a marketplace that connects homeowners, pros and suppliers with modern tools to scope their work, transact and collaborate. We're starting with Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which provide much needed housing, a smart...


  • San Francisco, United States SA Technologies Inc Full time

    Role: Senior Software Engineer Location: San Francisco, CA Estimated Duration: FullTime Our client is looking for a Senior Engineer who is excited to lead development of great products, while keeping a healthy balance of velocity and engineering excellence. You will be joining as one of the very first people at the client site that will help shape everything...


  • San Francisco, United States Square Full time

    Bitkey sits within the Proto team. Proto's purpose is to accelerate the worlds transition to a more open economy by making products that increase access and independence for everyone. The first two initiatives weve identified that represent the big Software Engineer, Mobile Engineer, Software, Engineer, Senior, Technology


  • San Francisco, United States Cottage Company Full time

    Cottage was founded with the belief that there had to be a better way for homeowners and contractors to work together. We are building a marketplace that connects homeowners, pros and suppliers with modern tools to scope their work, transact and collaborate. We're starting with Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs), which provide much needed housing, a smart...


  • San Francisco, United States Osaro, Inc. Full time

    We are looking for a full-time Senior Robotics Software Engineer whose work will help us improve the capabilities of our robot control stack, working closely with our state-of-the-art perception and powerful adaptive decision-making algorithms. Our AI software products endow industrial robots with the level of autonomy needed to perform an extensive variety...


  • San Francisco, United States EXPLO Full time

    We are hiring our next software engineer to join the team! As one of our senior engineering hires, you will be a pivotal member of our company, leading product and engineering decisions. You will own large parts of the product architecture, speak directly with customers, work with design to define the product, and help the business meet its goals. As a...


  • San Diego, United States High Side Technology Full time

    Job DescriptionJob DescriptionDescription:HST has an immediate need for a senior software engineer to provide software design and architecture support to multiple Department of Defense (DoD) and Intelligence Community (IC) clients. The successful candidate will lead critical microservices-centric software design, development and application modernization...


  • San Francisco, United States Pallet Service Corporation Full time

    WHO WE ARE Pallet is a company dedicated to disrupting the logistics industry. Located in San Francisco, CA, we've secured $14 million in funding from investors, including Bain Capital Ventures and Bessemer. Our flagship product is a cartage Transportation Management System (TMS) designed to streamline business operations. We've eliminated data entry,...


  • San Francisco, United States Spice AI Full time

    Building data and AI-driven software is still way too hard, even for advanced developers. At Spice AI, we’re helping developers combine code with data and machine learning (ML) to create truly intelligent applications. Spice AI is on a mission to make this as easy as creating a modern web page. Spice.ai provides building blocks for data and AI-driven...


  • San Francisco, California, United States Ridepanda Full time

    Job functionsYou will work with the product and design team with input from other parts of the company. You will be critical in helping us build the core technologies and features that enable the company to scale quickly to serve as many customers and partners/clients as possible.You will be responsible for architecting scalable, modular solutions and...


  • San Francisco, California, United States Fathom Full time

    Fathom is on a mission to use AI to understand and structure the world's medical data, starting by making sense of the terabytes of clinician notes contained within the electronic health records of the world's largest health systems. Our deep learning engine automates the translation of patient records into the billing codes used for healthcare provider...


  • San Francisco, California, United States Fathom Full time

    Fathom is on a mission to use AI to understand and structure the world's medical data, starting by making sense of the terabytes of clinician notes contained within the electronic health records of the world's largest health systems. Our deep learning engine automates the translation of patient records into the billing codes used for healthcare provider...