Software Engineer, Notion
Monetization
$250-320k
2+ 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
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$250-320k
2+ days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.
Role
Who you are
- This is a great role if you enjoy hard systems problems (correctness, performance, reliability) and also like seeing your work show up directly in how customers buy and use a product
- Significant experience building and operating complex backend systems in production
- Strong skills in system design, data modeling, and working with transactional, correctness‑sensitive domains
- A track record of leading projects that required coordination across multiple teams or stakeholders
- Clear, empathetic communication with both technical and non‑technical partners
- A bias toward simple, robust solutions over clever ones, and comfort working in an evolving product area like pricing and billing
- If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you
Desirable
- Experience with payments, billing, or usage‑based pricing is a plus, but not required—strong engineers who are excited about this space can ramp quickly
What the job involves
- We’re looking for an experienced software engineer to be a technical leader on the Monetization team
- You’ll focus on the foundations of how Notion charges customers: plans, entitlements, payments, invoices, and AI usage
- You will work closely with product, design, finance, data, and go‑to‑market partners to ship changes that are both technically sound and business‑critical
- Design and evolve the architecture for Notion’s billing and pricing systems so we can launch new plans, add‑ons, and AI usage models without repeated rewrites
- Own end‑to‑end projects that touch multiple systems and teams, from early technical design through rollout and iteration
- Improve the reliability, observability, and correctness of our monetization flows (for example, preventing double‑billing, missed invoices, or quota drift)
- Partner with product and business stakeholders to turn ambiguous monetization ideas into clear technical plans and shipping milestones
- Help other engineers grow by reviewing designs and code, sharing best practices, and setting a high bar for craft on the team
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 $2B 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 also 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. However, with a growing wave of competitors emerging, including offerings like Microsoft Loop, Notion will need to keep innovating and evolving to maintain its edge and stay ahead in an increasingly crowded market.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Oct 2021
$275m
LATE VC
Apr 2020
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $335m
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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