Software Engineer, Early Career

Summary

Notion is the collaborative AI workspace where teams and agents think together. As an Early Career Software Engineer, you’ll help shape core user experiences and accelerate how people discover value in Notion by tackling meaningful challenges and contributing to the product vision.

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

Skills

• 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 have experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch
• 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
• 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

Qualifications

Must Haves

• 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

Nice to Haves

• You have experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch
• 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
• 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

Benefits

• Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
• The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below.
• Notion provides reasonable accommodations during the application process; if you need one, please let your recruiter know.
• Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures.