Notion

Software Engineer, Early Career

San Francisco, California$130k–$150kfulltimeentryAdded today

About this role

Notion is seeking early-career software engineers to help build core product features and experiences for their AI-powered collaborative workspace used by millions. You'll own meaningful projects end-to-end, collaborating with design and product teams to ship features, improve performance, and drive user engagement across the platform.

What you'll do

Plan, build, and ship product features from conception through launch and iteration
Improve performance, reliability, and quality of experiences for millions of users
Run experiments to drive activation, retention, and collaboration metrics
Build internal tools and platform improvements to help engineers ship faster
Contribute to code quality, team norms, and a learning-focused culture
Work on core product, AI/automation, growth, or infrastructure initiatives

What they're looking for

Strong fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
Holistic problem-solving with ability to navigate ambiguity
Customer-minded, pragmatic approach to technology decisions
Proactive communication and high ownership/agency
React, TypeScript, Node.js (nice to have)
Postgres and Elasticsearch (nice to have)
Experience with AI-assisted development tools like Cursor or Claude Code
Less than two years of professional engineering experience

Benefits

Work on products used by millions of individuals and large organizations
Collaborate with experienced teams across design, product, and data
Take ownership of meaningful projects with increasing autonomy
Contribute to shaping the future of human-centered AI-era work
Access to mentorship and learning culture focused on thoughtful tradeoffs
Located in San Francisco with opportunity to work on core platform experiences

Likely interview questions

Tell us about a project where you had to navigate ambiguity and decompose a complex problem—how did you approach it?
How do you balance shipping features quickly with maintaining code quality and reliability?

Describe your experience collaborating with cross-functional teams (designers, product, data). How do you communicate progress and blockers?
What's an example of when you showed initiative and high agency in solving a problem without waiting for instructions?
How do you stay current with new development tools and technologies, and how do you decide which ones are worth adopting?
What draws you to working on products that impact millions of users, and how does that influence your engineering decisions?
Have you worked with any part of our tech stack (React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Elasticsearch)? If not, how do you approach learning new technologies?

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