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 300,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
The Core Platform team focuses on creating a delightful developer experience that empowers engineers 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.
As a member of the Core Python team, you’ll be responsible for driving Nextdoor’s Python language infrastructure investments to make it the fastest and most productive environment. To maximize performance, we run Python 3.11 and make extensive use of asyncio to perform concurrent data fetching to backend systems. We believe static typing improves engineering velocity (and decreases bugs), and make wide use of Mypy for static type enforcement on roughly 80% of our code base. Future projects will include investments in building a rich, type-safe Graph ORM Layer, increasing adoption and utilization of asyncio to balance IO batching and CPU utilization, as well as language tooling to define and and automatically enforce code patterns.
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You’ll work with product engineers to understand their pain points and identify high leverage opportunities to improve developer experience and scalability of our systems. In addition to product engineers, you will collaborate closely with the Monolith CI/CD team, who drive 10-15 deployments per day of the application, working to identify ways to improve developer velocity across the entire workflow.
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 $153,000 to $212,000 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.
Nextdoor is an American company based in San Francisco, California that offers a hyperlocal social networking service for neighborhoods. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 315,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries worldwide.
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