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Software Engineer, Fullstack, Early Career — Notion

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About Us Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life's work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In‑person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in‑office workdays.

About The Role

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.

What You'll Achieve

• 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.

Areas you might work on

• Core Notion product features: 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: Develop and integrate intelligent features that make Notion more powerful, contextual, and efficient for our users.
• Growth and activation: Features that help new users discover Notion's value, improve onboarding experiences, and increase user engagement.
• Platform and infrastructure: Systems powering Notion's backend services, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance as our user base grows.

Skills You'll Bring

• Proven track record of execution: 1–3 years of full-time professional engineering experience, building world-class product experiences, with fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, plus a product-minded, pragmatic approach.
• Thoughtful problem-solving: Ability to understand context, navigate ambiguity, decompose problems, and balance business impact.
• Impact-driven approach to technology: Focus on delivering user value and practical tool choices, staying current with tools and AI-assisted development environments as appropriate.
• Proactive communication and high agency: Own your work, communicate progress and blockers, and drive projects forward independently.

Nice to Have

• Experience with React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, or experimentation/analytics tooling.
• Exposure to distributed systems, observability, CI/CD, or infrastructure fundamentals.
• Interest in product quality and craft, and helping others stay in flow.
• Awareness of computing pioneers and their impact.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities. See Notion's Equal Opportunity statements and recruiting privacy policy for details.

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds. If you're excited about a role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every bullet point, we still encourage you to apply.