Software Engineer, New Grad (Dec 2026)
Plans and builds product features end to end, improves performance and builds internal tools, working across the web frontend and backend. For students graduating in December 2026 with internship experience who can start in January or February 2027.
San Francisco, California
HybridNo experience needed
Pay not stated
Full-time
Posted 14 Aug 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.
- RoadmapBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys
- RoadmapDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns
- RoadmapFrontend developmentHTML, CSS, JavaScript and a framework
- Cheat sheetBackend developmentAPIs, databases, auth, deploys.
- Cheat sheetDSA and problem solvingData structures and patterns.
- Cheat sheetFrontend developmentHTML, CSS, JavaScript and a framework.
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 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
A sequenced path of six text-based courses for the engineering manager interview loop, combining coding, system design, microservices patterns, people management scenarios and senior leadership questions. It suits engineers moving into management and managers changing companies, who need to prepare for both the technical and the leadership rounds without piecing a plan together themselves.
- Career
- Leadership
- Job search
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
An eight-stage path from Big-O through arrays, hashing, recursion, trees, graphs, coding patterns and dynamic programming to timed, mixed practice, in Python, Java, C++ or JavaScript. It suits students and developers who can write code but freeze on problems with no obvious library call. By the end you can pick the right data structure, recognise common problem shapes and solve a medium problem in about 35 minutes with edge cases tested.
- Programming
- DSA
- Web
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Last checked 8 days ago (6 Oct 2026)
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