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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. We're hiring early career engineers to join us across several teams at Notion. Your recruiter will partner with you to find the team that best aligns with your interests and where you can make the highest impact. Plan, build, and ship product features from conception to launch, then iterate based on insights and user 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. 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. Help develop and integrate intelligent features that make Notion more powerful, contextual, and efficient for our users. Work on features that help new users discover Notion's value, improve onboarding experiences, and increase user engagement. Contribute to the systems that power Notion's backend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our user base grows. Proven track record of execution: You have a minimum of 1 year (and up to 3 years) of full-time professional engineering experience, including building world-class product experiences as part of an engineering team. You have solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, with a product-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. Experience with parts of our stack like React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, or with experimentation and analytics tooling. Exposure to distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, or infrastructure fundamentals. An interest in product quality and craft, and in helping others stay in flow. You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and othersand understand why we're big fans of their work. Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.
Nice-to-have skills
- Distributed Systems
- Node.JS
- React
- TypeScript
Work experience
- Backend
- Fullstack
Languages
- English
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