• 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
• Expertise building and scaling backend systems: You understand how parts of a system fit together—from the user interface to the data model. You are deeply familiar with relational database systems like Postgres or MySQL. You have experience scaling production software to support rapid growth and are comfortable defining technical roadmaps
• Shipping quality user interfaces: You partner closely with product and design to craft beautiful user experiences for large audiences, leveraging web technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and a modern UI framework like React. If you've experienced the technical challenges of rapid growth, that's a plus
• Building the team: You enjoy collaborating with both fellow engineers and cross-functional partners. You are a lifelong learner and invest in both your own growth, but also the growth, learning, and development of your teammates
• Thoughtful problem-solving: You approach problems holistically, starting with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You think critically about the implications of what you're building and how it will impact real people's lives. You can navigate ambiguity flawlessly, decompose complex problems into clean solutions, while also balancing the business impact of what you’re building
• Not ideological about technology: 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
• 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 compromise when needed

Desirable

• You’ll work with a team of engineers and cross-functional partners across product, design, data science, and user research to define a product strategy and drive execution through conception, research, implementation, and maintenance
• You’ll build and maintain foundational pieces of Notion’s core database primitive, enabling a wide array of use cases in Notion such as issue tracking, project management, and more
• You’ll contribute to the overall performance, reliability, and robustness of Notion databases, ensuring they scale elegantly to larger datasets and workloads
• You’ll partner with engineering leaders to identify and execute against high leverage technical investment that ensure the long-term flexibility and sustainability of our core systems