Software Engineer, Early Career
$130,000–$150,000 year
On-siteSan Francisco, California, United States
Job Summary
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. 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. Work on core Notion product features including the editor, databases, and sharing, or develop AI and automation integrations. Contribute to backend services ensuring reliability and scalability. This role targets candidates with 0-2 years of experience starting full-time immediately.
Required Qualifications
- less than two years of engineering experience
- solid fundamentals in data structures, algorithms, and distributed systems
- customer-minded, pragmatic approach to solving problems
- Thoughtful problem-solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context
- You think about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives
- You can navigate ambiguity successfully
- decompose complex problems into clean solutions
- balancing the business impact of what you're building
- Impact-driven approach to technology
- You see technologies as tools to achieve user impact rather than ends in themselves
- You care more about building successful systems that solve real problems than about using specific tech stacks or following trends
- You stay current with the latest tools like Cursor, Claude Code, and other AI-assisted development environments
- You're pragmatic about choosing the right tool for the job
- focusing on what delivers the most value to users and the business
- Proactive communication and high agency
- You own your work
- communicating clearly about progress and blockers
- You don't wait for instructions for every step
- show initiative in identifying what needs to be done and driving projects forward
- You ask questions when needed
- independently finding solutions to problems
Desired Qualifications
- experience with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, and Elasticsearch
- You care about the interaction between technology and society, the ways in which they inform each other, and our responsibility as technologists to be conscious of that relationship
- You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work
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