Software Engineer, Early Career
Ships product features on core Notion areas such as the editor, databases, growth or platform, and runs experiments with design and data partners. For engineers with under two years of experience who can start full time now, not students still graduating.
San Francisco, California
On-site0 to 2 years
Pay not stated
Full-time
Posted 6 Jul 2026What they ask for
How Notion hires
- 1
Recruiter screen
Recruiter screen · 30 min · Single account
A short call about your background and why Notion, sometimes with a product question about the app itself.
- 2
Take-home project (some roles)
Take-home assignment · Single account
Some candidates report a multi-day coding assignment, often a simplified block-based editor in React and TypeScript, which is later extended in a pairing session.
- 3
Technical phone screen
Live coding · 60 min · Single account
A live coding session with a Notion engineer.
- 4
Onsite loop
Panel interview · Single account
Several one-hour interviews covering practical coding and debugging, system design for real-time collaborative editing, and a behavioural conversation with the hiring manager.
- 5
Leadership or founder conversation
Senior leadership · Single account
A final conversation focused on values and culture with a member of Notion’s leadership.
- 6
Reference checks
Final HR round · From the company
Notion says it treats reference checks as a real signal rather than a formality, and resolves open questions before making an offer.
What comes up
Roadmaps and cheat sheets for this role
Matched to the skills and level this job asks for.
- RoadmapDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns
- RoadmapBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys
- RoadmapSystem designSystems that scale
- Cheat sheetDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns.
- Cheat sheetBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys.
- Cheat sheetSystem designSystems that scale.
Worth reading before you apply
From the Sefism resource library, matched to this role and Notion's rounds.
A structured learning path through coding interview preparation that brings together data structures and algorithms fundamentals, recursion and the pattern-based approach to coding questions in one order. It totals 77 chapters and 1,054 lessons, with quizzes, flashcards and a certificate. Use it when you have plenty of material but no clear plan for what to study first.
- Job search
- DSA
- Career
A bundle of five company-specific question courses covering the problems most often reported from Meta, Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Oracle coding rounds, each split into easy, medium and hard sets with worked solutions. It suits candidates who already know the core patterns and have a loop booked at one of these companies, and want to rehearse on the questions those interviewers are known to ask.
- Job search
- DSA
- Career
A free newsletter of short, focused posts on system design and problem solving, from the team behind the Grokking courses. Recent posts cover company interview processes (such as OpenAI and Anthropic roles), the most asked mobile system design questions and preparation plans, each linking to a fuller article on the blog. It suits engineers who want a steady, low-effort way to keep system design and interview topics fresh between deeper study sessions.
- System design
- DSA
A practical course on negotiating compensation in tech, from preparing and building a strategy to specific tactics, the full package beyond base salary, handling multiple offers and asking for a raise. It has tailored sections for fresh graduates and experienced engineers. It suits anyone with an offer coming, and anyone who has ever accepted the first number out of discomfort.
- Career
- Job search
The official site of the ICPC, the university programming contest where teams of three share one computer for five hours and advance from regional contests towards the World Finals. It is where coaches register teams, where the current regional and World Finals rules are published, and where you find contests, results and past problems.
- DSA
- CS fundamentals
A quick-revision companion to the DSA roadmap in nine chapters: complexity, arrays and hashing, linked lists, stacks and queues, recursion, sorting and searching, trees and heaps, graphs, coding patterns, dynamic programming and timed practice habits. Costs are stated for every structure and algorithm, in Python, Java, C++ or JavaScript editions. Use it after each roadmap stage and before a contest or coding round.
- Programming
- DSA
- Web
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Last checked 9 days ago (6 Oct 2026)
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