Software Engineer (Early Career)

• As an Early Career Software Engineer at Notion, you’ll help shape core user experiences and accelerate how people discover value in Notion. You’ll tackle meaningful challenges with increasing autonomy, crafting code that millions of users will experience
• You’ll take ownership of projects that matter, make critical technical decisions, and contribute your unique perspective to our product vision. Working alongside passionate experts across design, product, and data, you’ll help shape the future of how people work
• 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
• 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

Preferred experience

• You have less than two years of engineering experience. You have solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, with a customer-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems
• Thoughtful problem-solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think about the implications of what you’re building and how it will impact real people’s lives. You can navigate ambiguity successfully, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while also balancing the business impact of what you’re building
• Impact-driven approach to technology: You see technologies as tools to achieve user impact rather than ends in themselves. You care more about building successful systems that solve real problems than about using specific tech stacks or following trends. You stay current with the latest tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments, you’re pragmatic about choosing the right tool for the job, focusing on what delivers the most value to users and the business
• Proactive communication and high agency: You own your work, communicating clearly about progress and blockers. You don’t wait for instructions for every step but rather show initiative in identifying what needs to be done and driving projects forward. You ask questions when needed while independently finding solutions to problems
• You don’t need deep AI expertise for every role, but we do expect every Notino to be intellectually curious, drawn to tinkering and discovery, and excited to use AI as a real collaborator in their work. For some roles, AI fluency is a core requirement — when that’s the case, we’ll say so explicitly in the qualifications. People who thrive here don’t treat AI as a novelty. They use it to think better, and make their work easier for others to build on
• You have experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch
• You’ve heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we’re big fans of their work
• You 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