Software Engineer, Collections Experience
About The Position
Notion helps users build beautiful tools for their life’s work, providing one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations, love Notion for its flexibility and efficiency. The Collections Experience team owns the product experience for Notion’s database block and all its associated features, including properties, views, forms, and permissions. This role is for an experienced software engineer to accelerate the mission of building a flexible, reliable, and intuitive primitive that empowers everyone to model their work exactly as they imagine. The team comprises 8+ engineers, designers, and PMs across San Francisco and New York City. The position involves working across the stack in TypeScript, shipping features that impact both the data model and the UI, and helping to shape the future direction of the database block.
Requirements
- 10+ years shipping production software, with a strong track record of owning features end-to-end
- Fluency with TypeScript across both backend and frontend
- Strong product instincts: you can take a vague problem, propose a solid technical approach, and know when to cut scope
- Experience on systems where data model decisions have long-lived consequences (databases, permissions, collaborative editing, or similar)
- You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.
Nice To Haves
- Experience building database, spreadsheet, or workflow tools
- Background in permissions or authorization systems at scale
- Familiarity with AI/agent tooling, evals, or LLM-driven product experiences
Responsibilities
- Design and ship new database properties and views that expand what people can model in Notion
- Design permission models that hold up at the scale of our largest customers
- Partner with the Agent team to grow what Notion Agent can do with databases, from tool development to eval-driven iteration
- Collaborate closely with product and design on features that are ambiguous up front and require strong technical judgment to scope
- Raise the bar on code review, testing, and technical design across the team
Benefits
- highly competitive cash compensation
- equity
- benefits
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
501-1,000 employees
