Nextdoor
Senior Software Engineer - Backend
San Francisco, California, USA · Senior · full-time
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$131 more — $165,131 — moves this role to Level II and 2 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $165,131 would place this position at wage Level II. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Software Developers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Software Developers (15-1252) · San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- #TeamNextdoor Nextdoor (NYSE: NXDR) is the essential neighborhood network.
- Neighbors, public agencies, and businesses use Nextdoor to connect around local information that matters in more than 350,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
- Download the app and join the neighborhood at nextdoor.com.
Responsibilities
- Nextdoor builds innovative technology to foster local community, share important news, and create neighborhood connections at scale.
- As a team, we will make each other better and build great software.
- 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.
- The Impact You'll Make We believe in empowering our teams to own all aspects of bringing Nextdoor to life.
- You'll also get the chance to collaborate with product managers and designers to drive Nextdoor forward.
- As your career at Nextdoor develops, you'll also get the chance to grow your role towards what you're most passionate about.
Compensation
- The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $165,000 to $250,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your 'level' of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role.
Benefits
- We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role.
- With quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.
Company info
- We are a small, high performing team of engineers that wear multiple hats and prioritize impact for our customers.
- 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 encourage everyone interested in our mission to apply.
This listing is sourced directly from Nextdoor's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.