Software Engineer, Notion

Trust

$160-250k

+ Equity

React
TypeScript
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

Open for applications

Notion

Online workspace for notes, projects, and collaboration

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Open for applications

$160-250k

+ Equity

React
TypeScript
Redis
Node.js
Postgres
Senior level
New York
San Francisco Bay Area

3+ days a week in office

1001+ employees

B2BInternal toolsProductivitySaaSProduct Management

Company mission

To shape both the future of work, and the future of productivity tools.

Role

Who you are

  • Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You have 5+ years of engineering experience and can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates
  • Pragmatic and business-oriented: You care about business impact and prioritize projects accordingly. You don't just go after cool stuff—you understand the balance between craft, speed, and the bottom line. 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
  • Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad
  • 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
  • Team player: You understand when work is better, together. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same

Desirable

  • Trust expertise: You bring multiple years of software engineering experience in the areas of trust, safety, and user authentication
  • Cross-functional collaboration: You have a history of strong cross-functional collaboration with trust and safety ops, legal, and/or other non-technical teams
  • Technology stack: You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Postgres, Redis
  • Startup mentality: You are comfortable navigating the fast moving, unstructured nature of a hyper-growth startup. You are self-motivated to add value and bias towards action

What the job involves

  • As a member of the Trust Engineering team, you'll have many opportunities to safeguard Notion's community and help build a trustworthy environment
  • You'll partner with product and infrastructure teams to integrate trust and safety into Notion's technology stack, promoting sustainable growth towards becoming a universally used product
  • Additionally, you'll collaborate with our Trust & Safety operations team to anticipate changing attack vectors and foster a positive user experience
  • Built product features, platforms, and machine learning / AI models to protect Notion’s community from account takeovers, phishing, objectionable content, spam and other kinds of fraud and abuse
  • Partner closely with Trust and Safety ops and other security teams to investigate new attack vectors, manage incidents, and improve internal tooling and automation
  • Contribute to the vision and roadmaps for this team and articulate Notion’s overall approach and philosophy on Trust Engineering

Our take

Managing busy workflows using fragmented systems can be a headache for both individuals and businesses. Notion aims to combat this problem by enabling users to work from one central hub, customizing their workflows to suit their exact needs. This includes managing files, scheduling tasks, saving documents, writing to-do-lists, and setting reminders.

The company counts enterprise companies such as McDonald’s, The Wall Street Journal, Verizon, Samsung, and IBM as its customers. In spite of economic uncertainty, Notion reached a $2 billion valuation in 2020, helped by record signups as more people were forced to work from home. Its value has since risen to over 5 times this value, an impressive reflection of its success.

The company has made a number of strategic acquisitions that, coupled with its enormous market value and enviable customer list, have Notion well-placed to continue dominating the market. That being said, the launch of Microsoft-built competitor Loop at the end of 2023 will put Notion's market dominance to the test.

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Top investors

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183% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)

Oct 2021

$275m

LATE VC

Apr 2020

$50m

LATE VC

Total funding: $335m

Company benefits

  • Dog-friendly office
  • 401k matching
  • Parental leaave
  • Free lunches
  • Equipment stipend
  • Monthly commuter credits
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Health insurance

Company values

  • Put Users First
  • Quality With Speed
  • Dedication Is Contagious
  • Feedback Is A Gift
  • Run The Front Page Test

Company HQ

Financial District, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Ivan worked for Inkling for 2 years in Product, but was disappointed by the lack of a simple way of collaborating on projects. To fit this need, he co-founded Notion in 2013, serving as CEO since.

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