Software Engineer, Early Career

Responsibilities

• Plan, build, and ship product features from conception to launch, then iterate based on insights and customer feedback.
• Improve performance, reliability, and quality of key experiences used by millions of users and thousands of organizations.
• Run experiments that drive activation, retention, collaboration, and revenue, partnering with design, data science, and research.
• Build internal tools and platform improvements that help all engineers ship quickly and safely.
• Contribute to team norms, code quality, and a culture of learning and thoughtful tradeoffs.

Areas you might work on:

• Core Notion product features: Help develop, improve, and maintain features for our flagship product, focusing on the editor, databases, sharing, or other key areas that power millions of workflows.
• AI and automation: Help develop and integrate intelligent features that make Notion more powerful, contextual, and efficient for our users.
• Growth and activation: Work on features that help new users discover Notion's value, improve onboarding experiences, and increase user engagement.
• Platform and infrastructure: Contribute to the systems that power Notion's backend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our user base grows.

Requirements

• Less than two years of engineering experience.
• Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
• Thoughtful problem-solving: Approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. Think about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives. Navigate ambiguity successfully, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while balancing the business impact.
• Impact-driven approach to technology: See technologies as tools to achieve user impact rather than ends in themselves. Care more about building successful systems that solve real problems than about using specific tech stacks or following trends. Stay current with the latest tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments; pragmatic about choosing the right tool for the job.
• Proactive communication and high agency: Own your work, communicating clearly about progress and blockers. Show initiative in identifying what needs to be done and driving projects forward. Ask questions when needed while independently finding solutions to problems.

Nice-to-Haves

• Experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch.
• Care about the interaction between technology and society, the ways in which they inform each other, and our responsibility as technologists to be conscious of that relationship.
• Familiarity with computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others.