Software Engineer, Notion
Search
$130-250k
3-5 days a week in office
Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration
Open for applications
Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$130-250k
3-5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To shape both the future of work, and the future of productivity tools.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience in:
- Backend engineering
- Data infrastructure
- Search infrastructure
- Natural language processing, or
- Machine learning for ranking / classification
- You have a track record for shipping scalable and reliable user-facing products
- You thrive when collaborating cross-functionally — especially with product, design, infrastructure or data teams
- You have a computer science background or equivalent technical experience
Desirable
- You have experience building full-text search using, e.g: Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr
- You have experience building fully productionized machine learning systems
- You have experience with designing, building and maintaining complex distributed systems
- You have experience with large scale data processing technologies, e.g: Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, YARN/Hadoop
- You have implemented semantic search systems
- You have worked at a fast-growing start-up, a SaaS company, or are eager to contribute in such an environment (being a current Notion user would be great!)
- 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
What the job involves
- You’ll build best-in-class search and retrieval systems used by millions of users across billions of documents
- You’ll improve search relevancy using creative, cutting-edge techniques from both industry and new research
- You’ll ensure the reliability and correctness of our distributed real-time indexing pipeline, indexing every change made to every document in all of Notion
- You’ll find ways, big and small, to leverage AI and LLMs to help users find the most important and relevant information in their Notion workspaces
- You’ll collaborate with product engineers across Notion to provide search functionality in their product features
Our take
Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.
The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2 billion valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.
The company has made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Some candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
183% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Dog-friendly office
- 401k matching
- Parental leaave
- Free lunches
- Equipment stipend
- Monthly commuter credits
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company values
- Put Users First
- Quality With Speed
- Dedication Is Contagious
- Feedback Is A Gift
- Run The Front Page Test
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Ivan Zhao
(CEO)Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 46 more jobs at Notion