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
• Tech leadership experience: You have previously held positions where you were responsible for making key technical decisions, guiding a team through complex projects, and mentoring junior team members
• Ability to Scale: You have experience scaling distributed systems to support rapid growth, or you're motivated and excited to learn
• 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

• 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 key building blocks
• You’ll play a leading role in developing the technical and product foundations of Automations to ensure we can provide a powerful, connected, and reliable set of tools
• Your role as a product engineer will involve understanding user needs, collaborating with product, design, and other engineering teams to design and develop elegant solutions to ambiguous 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 infrastructure. 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 client and server environments, utilizing technologies like React, NodeJS, Postgres, Kafka, AWS, 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