Software Engineer, Notion
Developer Experience
$145-250k
2+ days a week in office
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
Open for applications
The connected workspace for your docs, projects, knowledge, and AI
501-1000 employees
Open for applications
$145-250k
2+ 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
- A drive to make developers’ lives better: you have a strong interest in making engineers happier and more efficient through better tooling. You like to think critically about the workflows folks use in their day to day work, finding bottlenecks and thinking outside of the box to find ways to pave a better golden path for engineers to follow
- A focus on user experience: you bring care and craft to the user experience you build into your products. Your work emphasizes simplicity, supportability, and ease-of-use, and you communicate clearly with other teams and engineers to get feedback on where we can improve
- Interest in learning how things work: you love to learn how the tools you use work at a fundamental level. You get excited at the idea of digging into third-party source code to understand how they work and find new ways to use them
- Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You don't just go after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. 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
Desirable
- Familiarity with TypeScript, especially in ways to keep it running smoothly in a large codebase
- An interest in automated testing and familiarity with testing best practices
- Past experience with React and common tooling like React Testing Library
- Past experience on developer experience teams or related tools
What the job involves
- Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means millions of people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion.
- The Developer Experience team is responsible for architecting, implementing, and scaling the tools and frameworks that Notion developers use to build Notion. We are looking for engineers who are passionate about solving engineering productivity challenges and have deep empathy for other developers
- Collaborate with engineers across the company to deliver an industry-leading development workflow, along the way working deeply with tools like the TypeScript language server, eslint, and the notion CLI to improve developers’ day to day experience
- Work on the bleeding edge of tooling performance, researching and evaluating new tools and keeping up with new developments in the developer experience space in the JS ecosystem
- Take ownership of the overall development environment and toolchain, and contribute to novel projects across the company to deliver impact
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
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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