Software Engineer, Notion

• Proven track record of execution: You have 7+ years of engineering experience, including several years building world-class product experiences alongside a team of engineers
• Thoughtful Problem-solving: You seek to understand complex problems deeply in order to develop multiple solutions, from which you can articulate tradeoffs between user impact, timeline, scope, craft, and tech debt
• Impact Driven: You care about user impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You're not motivated to use new technologies on their own, but through careful analysis of their applicability to the problem at hand, taking into account long term implications of technical decisions
• Clear and 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 work together to find agreeable outcomes
• Collaborative Team Member: You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally beyond team boundaries to accomplish shared goals. You care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same
• Ability to Scale: You have experience scaling distributed systems to support rapid growth, or you're motivated and excited to learn
• You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Docker, Kafka and Redis

Desirable

• Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million 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
• This is where you come in — to help us forge a simple and powerful set of tools to guide us to the future
• Everyday, people use Notion to power their workflows from project updates, bug tracking, creative requests, habit tracking and more
• The Automations team’s mission is to empower individuals and organizations to automate a broad set of workflows, enhancing productivity by minimizing routine work
• As an Automations engineer, you’ll get to directly shape some of Notion’s foundational building blocks
• You’ll play a leading role in designing and building the technical foundations of Automations to ensure we can deliver a robust and reliable experience at scale
• Your role as a product infrastructure engineer will involve understanding user needs, collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to design and develop elegant solutions to complex problems
• Finally, you’ll do all the above in a fast-paced, highly collaborative and dynamic work environment!
• You’ll build and maintain foundational pieces of Notion’s building blocks, enabling a wide array of use cases in Notion such as project management, goal tracking and more
• You'll work with the team to build new product features with the right foundations. For example, you might build a new type of Automation trigger or improve the performance of Formulas
• You’ll contribute to the overall performance, reliability, and robustness of the Notion product, ensuring it scales elegantly across many dimensions
• You’ll engage with all layers of the stack, spanning server and client environments, utilizing technologies like AWS, Postgres, NodeJS, Kafka, React etc
• You’ll work with a team of engineers and cross-functional partners across product, design, data science, and user research to define solutions and drive execution through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance