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Software Engineer, Early Career

Notion· Early Career
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San Francisco, California$130k - $150kFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

Notion is hiring an Early Career Software Engineer to help shape core user experiences, tackle meaningful challenges, and contribute to product and platform improvements. This role targets candidates with 0-2 years of experience who can start full-time in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

  • Plan, build, and ship product features from conception to launch, then iterate based on insights and customer feedback.
  • Improve performance, reliability, and quality of key experiences used by millions of users and thousands of organizations.
  • Run experiments that drive activation, retention, collaboration, and revenue, partnering with design, data science, and research.
  • Build internal tools and platform improvements that help all engineers ship quickly and safely.
  • Contribute to team norms, code quality, and a culture of learning and thoughtful tradeoffs.

Qualifications

  • You have less than two years of engineering experience. You have solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems, with a customer-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems.
  • Thoughtful problem-solving: you can understand context, navigate ambiguity, decompose problems, and balance business impact.
  • Impact-driven approach to technology: focus on user impact and choosing effective tools; familiarity with AI-assisted development environments; pragmatic about tool choice.

Skills

Required:Programming fundamentals (data structures, algorithms)Problem solvingCommunication and ownership

Benefits

  • Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
Last updated Aug 19, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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