Software Engineer Intern, Notion
Summer 2026
$57/hr for Bachelors and $61/hr for Master’s; + equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
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The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$57/hr for Bachelors and $61/hr for Master’s; + equity
More information about location
3+ days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help everyone build beautiful tools for their life’s work.
Role
Who you are
- Pursuing a bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or another related field. Must graduate before July 2027
- Previous internship experience
- Working towards a proficiency of one or more programming languages such as Typescript, Node.js, Go, Python, Java, Swift, Rust, or Kotlin
- You find large challenges exciting and enjoy discovering problems as much as solving them
- You are able to problem-solve and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment
- This internship will take place from May - September (based on your summer schedule) and you will need to be able to work out of our NY or SF office during this time
- Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck
- For a backend internship: You have a passion for learning how parts of a system fit together—from the user interface to the data model. Familiarity with relational database systems like Postgres or MySQL is a plus
- For a frontend internship: You have a passion for learning technologies (CSS, Javascript, & React) and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility and usability
- Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad
- Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go
- Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed
- Team player: For you, work isn't a solo endeavor. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same
Desirable
- You have expertise with specific technologies that are part of our stack, including Typescript, React, Electron, Node.js, AWS, and Postgres
- 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
- You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences
What the job involves
- This internship will take place from May - September (based on your summer schedule) and you will need to be able to work out of our NY or SF office during this time
- You will be a part of our first engineering internship class and will help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to Notion's future
- During your 12-week internship, you will be paired with a mentor that will help guide you as you work closely with our team to build and ship impactful projects. These projects will drive valuable impact to our customers and engineers
- From product engineering, mobile, to infrastructure and security, we have opportunities available on different teams
- Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code
- Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises
- Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling
- Develop, fix and debug software for web services, databases, applications, tools, networks
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.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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
- We are drivers of our mission. We’re driven by our commitment to empower every person on the planet to use software exactly the way they want.
- We are pace setters. We move with urgency so we can set the cadence for our market, cover more ground, and ship more great products and programs for our users, faster.
- We are truth seekers. We pursue the best data, ideas, and solutions with rigor and open-mindedness, always guided by our users’ most pressing needs.
- We are kind and direct. We deliver feedback in the spirit of helping our colleagues improve, balancing sensitivity with caring honesty. We’re in this together.
Company HQ
Yerba Buena, San Francisco, CA
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.
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