Senior Backend Developer

Required Qualifications:

• 5+ years of professional software development experience.
• Post-secondary degree in computer science, software engineering or related discipline, or equivalent working experience.
• Development of distributed applications with Microsoft technologies: C# .NET/Core, SQL Server, Entity Framework.
• Deep expertise with microservices architectures and design patterns.
• Cloud Native AWS experience with services such as Lambda, SQS, RDS/Aurora, S3, Lex, and Polly.
• Mastery of both Windows and Linux environments and their use in the development and management of complex distributed systems architectures.
• Git source code repository and continuous integration tools.

Backend Engineer (MongoDB / API Integrations / AWS / Vectorization)

Position Summary

We are hiring a Backend Engineer with expertise in MongoDB, data vectorization, and advanced AI/LLM integrations. The ideal candidate will have hands-on experience developing backend systems that power intelligent data-driven applications, including robust API integrations with major social media platforms (Meta, Instagram, Facebook, with expansion to TikTok, Snapchat, etc.). In addition, this role requires deep AWS experience (Lambda, S3, EventBridge) to manage serverless workflows, automate cron jobs, and execute both scheduled and manual data pulls. You will collaborate closely with frontend developers and AI engineers to deliver scalable, resilient APIs that power our platform.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain backend services with MongoDB and scalable data models.
• Build pipelines to vectorize data for retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other AI-driven features.
• Develop robust API integrations with major social platforms (Meta, Instagram Graph API, Facebook API; expand to TikTok, Snapchat, etc.).
• Implement and maintain AWS Lambda serverless functions for scalable backend processes.
• Use AWS EventBridge to schedule cron jobs and manage event-driven workflows.
• Leverage AWS S3 for structured and unstructured data storage, retrieval, and processing.
• Build workflows for manual and automated data pulls from external APIs.
• Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability at high data volumes.
• Collaborate with frontend engineers to ensure smooth integration into Next.js applications.
• Ensure security, compliance, and best practices in API authentication (OAuth, tokens, etc.).
• Contribute to architecture planning, documentation, and system design reviews.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Strong expertise with MongoDB (including Atlas) and schema design.
• Experience with data vectorization and embeddings (OpenAI, Pinecone, MongoDB Atlas Vector Search, etc.).
• Proven track record of social media API integrations (Meta, Instagram, Facebook; additional platforms a plus).
• Proficiency in Node.js, Python, or other backend languages for API development.
• Deep understanding of AWS services:
• Lambda for serverless functions.
• S3 for structured/unstructured data storage.
• EventBridge for cron jobs, scheduled tasks, and event-driven workflows.
• Strong understanding of REST and GraphQL API design.
• Experience with data optimization, caching, and large-scale API performance.

Preferred Skills/Experience

• Experience with real-time data pipelines (Kafka, Kinesis, or similar).
• Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and automated deployments on AWS.
• Knowledge of serverless architecture best practices.
• Background in SaaS platform development or data analytics systems.

.Overall 5+ years of experience in application development using Java with creating and deploying microservices using the Spring Boot framework







• Strong experience in Maven.







• Good experience in unit(Junit) and integration testing.







• Experience in Microservices is a must.







Experience in designing and developing REST based services / Microservice development.







• Candidate should have good communication skills (written and verbal)







Excellent analytical and problem solving skills







Any one of these database Mongo, Maria, RMQ, Postgres, or other NoSQL servers







• Experience in AWS and CI/CD







5+ Years







Design, develop, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure backend services and APIs.







• Collaborate with frontend developers to integrate user-facing elements with server-side logic.







Write clean, efficient, and maintainable code following best practices and coding standards.







• Optimize performance and ensure high availability of backend services.







• Implement security measures to protect sensitive data and prevent vulnerabilities.







Design and manage databases, ensuring data integrity and efficient query performance.







Debug, troubleshoot, and resolve issues in production and development environments.







• Conduct code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.







Stay up-to-date with emerging backend technologies, frameworks, and best practices.







• Participate in Agile/Scrum ceremonies and contribute to sprint planning and estimations.

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in — to help us forge a performant and reliable path forward to the future.

• Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.
• Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.
• Contribute to monitoring & scaling the architecture of the platform and the infrastructure.
• Write technical documentation, and contribute to determining internal processes.
• Contribute to recruiting of new backend employees

• 6+ years of experience building scalable platforms. 
• Good understanding of database (Relational Or Nosql) internals like transactions, indexes. Experience in schema design.
• 2+ years of experience working on the AWS platform, and acquaintance with technologies like Elastic Beanstalk, AWS Lambda, Elastic Load Balancer.
• Good understanding of docker internals.
• Good communication skills, good leadership skills, attention to detail, a sound understanding of algorithms, and object-oriented programming.

• You're proficient with any part of our technology stack: React, TypeScript, Node.js, Memcached, Postgres, Docker, and Elasticsearch.
• 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.
• You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.

Notion is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate in hiring or any employment decision based on race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, genetic information, veteran status, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, or other applicable legally protected characteristic. Notion considers qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state and local law. Notion is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans in our job application procedures. If you need assistance or an accommodation made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Experience:

The candidate should have about 2+ years of experience with design and development in Java/Scala. Experience in algorithm, data-structure, database and distributed System is mandatory.

Required Skills:

Mandatory: -

1. Core Java or Scala
2. Experience in Big Data, Spark
3. Extensive experience in developing spark job. Should possess good Oops knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
4. Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complexity of spark job.
5. Working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
6. Hands on experience in Spark, creating RDD, applying operation - transformation-action

Good To have: -

1. Python
2. Spark streaming
3. Py Spark
4. Azure/AWS Cloud Knowledge of Data Storage and Compute side

Personality fit 

Looking to hire a Backend developer, who wakes up every day with the zeal of learning something new - a mind that is always curious. Not only this, he should be proud to have a good experience on algorithms and understand his technology at the atomic level.

Preliminary requirements for the role

1. Should understand the architecture of Node Js language, and must have had at least 1 year of solid experience in writing robust code in this language.
2. Should be well versed with basic algorithms on ( array, Linked list, stack, queue)- Yes, we do ask questions associated with time and space complexity for the above-mentioned algorithms
3. Thorough understanding of MySQL, in that, creating all types of joins ( inner, outer, left, and right) on multiple tables, views, and triggers are a piece of cake for you.
4. Further, you should have a decent understanding of database designs so that you can make quick decisions about normalization, inclusion/exclusion of foreign keys, etc
5. Should have a decent understanding of code repository tool such as GitHub
6. Should be well versed with the basics of AWS ( understanding of cloud architecture would be a plus)
7. Should be aware of the commonly used encryption techniques such as JWT, API encryption, Token management, etc
8. Exposure to working in E-commerce related applications as well as in a startup environment would be an add on.