About Us:
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.
About The Role:
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.
What You'll Achieve:
- 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
Skills You'll Need to Bring:
- 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.
Nice to Haves:
- 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.
About Notion
About
Our story
Early computing pioneers envisioned a future where machines on our desks could amplify our imagination, extend our intellect, and help us model information in ways never before seen. This is the type of tool we want to build together at Notion — one that gives you the software you can mold and shape like clay to solve your problems your way.
We’ve heard Notion described many ways. It can be as simple as a blank piece of paper, making writing feel light and delightful. It can be as complex as a relational database that stores huge amounts of data. We sometimes compare it to a set of Legos (if Legos were designed by The New York Times). But at its core, Notion is a toolbox of software building blocks that let you manage your life and work however you find most useful.
To make this possible, we’ve brought together a diverse team of individuals passionate about computing, history, art, alternative programming languages, music, skateboarding, and craft. Today, we’re growing faster than ever across offices in San Francisco, New York, Dublin, Hyderabad and Tokyo
Learn more - https://www.notion.so/careers
Our values
Be an owner of the mission.
We’re driven by our commitment to empower every person on the planet to use software exactly the way they want.
Be a pace setter.
We move with urgency so we can set the cadence for our market, cover more ground, and ship more great products and programs for our users, faster.
Be a truth seeker.
We pursue the best data, ideas, and solutions with rigor and open-mindedness, always guided by our users’ most pressing needs.
Be kind and direct.
We deliver feedback in the spirit of helping our colleagues improve, balancing sensitivity with caring honesty. We’re in this together.
Our values in action
Affinity groups
Notion is home to a number of employee-led groups that foster a diverse and inclusive workplace. So far, these include: Accessibility at Notion, All Asians and Pacific Islanders at Notion, Black Thought at Notion, Gente (LatinX) at Notion, Immigrants at Notion, Queers & Allies at Notion, Parents at Notion, Women at Notion.
Notion for Nonprofits
It's vital that we also support our beliefs with the Notion product itself. That's why we give 501(c)3 organizations working to solve the world's toughest problems 50% off our team plan.
Social impact
We run several programs and partnerships dedicated to inclusion, diversity, equity, and antiracism. Here are just a few of the organizations we support:
Volunteering at 826 Valencia
We help students from under-resourced backgrounds find their voices as writers and artists.
BreakLine
We reach more veterans, women, and people of color looking to pivot into careers in the tech industry.
Urban Tech Connect
We support tech events focused on networking and development opportunities for communities of color.
Fast Forward
We donate paid Notion plans to entrepreneurs accelerating social missions that support refugees, undocumented students, and veterans, among others.
Civic Alliance
We support safe, accessible, and trusted elections, and inspire our employees and customers to support civic engagement.
Pledge LA
We support Black and Latinx entrepreneurs from South LA in partnership with the Annenberg Foundation, the Weingart Foundation, and others.
Tech for Black Founders
We provide Notion workspaces and other support to early-stage startups led by Black founders.
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Join our engineering team as a developer with a strong focus on test architecture. You'll drive quality through active development and testing, contributing to core application features while maintaining test suites. Prior testing experience isn’t required—what matters is your passion for development and your potential to grow.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain comprehensive unit tests.
- Investigate and resolve bugs in production code.
- Contribute to feature development as needed.
- Collaborate in code reviews and improve test coverage.
- Assist in implementing test automation strategies.
What We’re Looking For:
- Experience in JavaScript/Node.js development (any level).
- Strong problem-solving and debugging skills.
- Ability to balance development and testing tasks.
- A growth mindset with a desire to learn and adapt.
Growth & Learning:
- Master modern testing frameworks, enhance full-stack skills, and gain TDD expertise.
What We Offer:
- Hands-on experience, mentorship, flexible work, and competitive benefits.
Senior Backend Developer
Job Overview: We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Backend Developer who excels in building robust, scalable backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages. The ideal candidate will have 4+ years of experience working with at least two backend frameworks and be proficient in at least two programming languages such as Python, Node.js, or Go. As an Sr. Backend Developer, you will play a critical role in designing, developing, and maintaining backend services, ensuring seamless real-time communication with WebSockets, and optimizing system performance with tools like Redis, Celery, and Docker.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design, develop, and maintain backend systems using multiple frameworks and languages (Python, Node.js, Go).
- Build and integrate APIs, microservices, and other backend components.
- Implement real-time features using WebSockets and ensure efficient server-client communication.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
- Optimize backend systems for performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Troubleshoot and debug complex issues, providing efficient and scalable solutions.
- Work with caching systems like Redis to enhance performance and manage data.
- Utilize task queues and background job processing tools like Celery.
- Develop and deploy applications using containerization tools like Docker.
- Participate in code reviews and provide constructive feedback to ensure code quality.
- Mentor junior developers, sharing best practices and promoting a culture of continuous learning.
- Stay updated with the latest backend development trends and technologies to keep our solutions cutting-edge.
Required Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
- 4+ years of professional experience as a Backend Developer.
- Proficiency in at least two programming languages: Python, Node.js, or Go.
- Experience working with multiple backend frameworks (e.g., Express, Flask, Gin, Fiber, FastAPI).
- Strong understanding of WebSockets and real-time communication.
- Hands-on experience with Redis for caching and data management.
- Familiarity with task queues like Celery for background job processing.
- Experience with Docker for containerizing applications and services.
- Strong knowledge of RESTful API design and implementation.
- Understanding of microservices architecture and distributed systems.
- Solid understanding of database technologies (SQL and NoSQL).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
- Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or GCP.
- Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.
- Experience with GraphQL and other modern API paradigms.
- Familiarity with task queues, caching, or message brokers (e.g., Celery, Redis, RabbitMQ).
- Understanding of security best practices in backend development.
- Knowledge of automated testing frameworks for backend services.
- Familiarity with version control systems, particularly Git.
Company is a remote-first team, looking to scale our Open Source Feature
Flagging, Remote Config and A/B Testing product. With both SaaS and on-premises customers, we are investing into our globally distributed, low latency API and making it simple for customers to deploy on their own infrastructure via Kubernetes and OpenShift.
We are looking for a Lead Server-Side Engineer, who also enjoys working on dev-ops, infrastructure and orchestration, and can help build out our existing API and infrastructure.
We are a really small team right now, and this is our first technical hire outside of the founders, so it’s a great opportunity to be part of something that is looking to scale quickly!
We are looking for someone who loves working with:
- Python. Django Rest Framework experience would be great, but not essential! We prioritise
- quality over quantity.
- Postgres with InfluxDB, Oracle, MySQL and Redis experience a plus.
- Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, OpenShift and associated tooling.
- AWS, especially ECS, Lambda, RDS and DynamoDB. Performance and uptime are super
- important to us.
- The challenge of scaling a global, distributed API to 10,000+ requests per second.
- We have SDKs in a bunch of languages, so the more polyglot you are the better.
- If you like writing JS and React that would be awesome too.
We are a 100% remote team, currently based on the West Coast US and in Europe
We are solving complex technical problems in the financial industry and need talented software engineers to join our mission and be a part of a global software development team.
Experience in Core Java 5.0 and above, CXF, Spring.
- Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for financial domain.
- Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
- Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
- Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database
- Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development
- Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux
- Excellent problem solving and coding skills in Java
- Strong interpersonal, communication and analytical skills.
- Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
If you are looking for a change this is what we can promise you:
You will have challenging problems to solve
You will have flexibility and autonomy to solve problems and deliver solutions
We will provide a highly collaborative environment with skilled and super friendly teammates
We will fully support you in developing software the right way
We won't burden you with useless policies and procedures
We will provide you the tools you need to do your job right
If that sounds attractive please apply! We'd love to talk to you.
Here are some more details about the position:
You will be hands-on writing code, unit tests, and performing peer code reviews. You will work with a project manager, software development engineers, user experience and interface designers, quality assurance engineers and customer stakeholders to deliver high quality, scalable and maintainable software solutions.
Required Qualifications
4+ years experience developing web applications using PHP
Ability to work effectively with offshore and nearshore team members
Experience performing peer code reviews
Experience writing unit tests
Experience with Git and merge conflict resolution
JavaScript and HTML, CSS
Ajax, Restful APIs and JSON
SQL (MSSQL, MySQL or similar)
Scalable Architectural Patterns
API Integrations
Asynchronous Processes and Multithreading
Desired Qualifications
5+ year of experience developing web applications.
Experience in Codeigniter PHP framework
Experience with React and Flux
frameworks like Angular, React, Bootstrap, Ember or similar
Experience working with offshore and nearshore development teams.
HTML 5 and CSS 3
Caching Technologies
Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure, or Heroku)
Serverless technologies
IoC / Dependency Injection
Continuous Integration
Continuous delivery
Git
SourceTree and Bitbucket
Scrum
Project management software - Jira, Rally or similar
Virtual Machines
Postman
Job Description for Senior Python Developer
Experience: 4 to 7 years
- Must have strong knowledge in Python 2/Python 3
- Must have a strong knowledge of Web development using the Django web framework and API development experience using Django REST API.
- Flask framework or any other framework’s knowledge is great.
- Ability to write reusable, testable, and efficient code
- Team Handling exposure
- Knowledge of Standard databases like MySql, PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases like MongoDB, Firebase, etc. Able to create database schemas that represent and support business processes.
- Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
- Must be good at understanding client requirements.
- Good testing/debugging skills using standard python modules/IDEs
- Deployment experience with standard servers like Apache/AWS etc.
- Experience in testing frameworks known in the industry.
- Having good/basic knowledge of Front end Technologies HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript is good.
- Proficient understanding of code versioning tools - GIT
The candidate must have experience in coding part and team handling experience both
Mandatory Skills :
Front end : Angular, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript
Backend : Python
Framework : Django python web framework
Any experience of working with NLP, computer vision and deep learning will be additional plus point