Software Engineer, Early Career

Notion•San Francisco, CA

2d•$130,000 - $150,000•Onsite

About The Position

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 aligns best with your interests and where you can make the highest impact.

Requirements

Less than two years of engineering experience.
Solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems.
Customer-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems.
Thoughtful problem-solving: Approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. Think about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives. 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: See technologies as tools to achieve user impact rather than ends in themselves. Care more about building successful systems that solve real problems than about using specific tech stacks or following trends. Stay current with the latest tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments, be 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: Own your work, communicating clearly about progress and blockers. Don't wait for instructions for every step but rather show initiative in identifying what needs to be done and driving projects forward. Ask questions when needed while independently finding solutions to problems.

Nice To Haves

Experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch.
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.
Have heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.

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.