Software Engineer, Collections Experience

Monograph; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 272,000 - 320,000; Full time

Job summary

Notion is seeking an experienced software engineer to enhance the database capabilities within their platform. Responsibilities include designing database properties and collaborating on features that require strong technical judgment. Candidates should have 10+ years of experience in software development, particularly with TypeScript, and possess strong product instincts. This position is hybrid, based in San Francisco, with a competitive salary range of $272,000 - $320,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Experience with production software development and feature ownership.
• Proficient in TypeScript for both backend and frontend.
• Ability to propose technical solutions to ambiguous problems.

Responsibilities

• Design and ship new database properties and views.
• Collaborate on features that require technical judgment.
• Raise the bar on code review and technical design.

Skills

10+ years shipping production software

Fluency with TypeScript

Strong product instincts

Experience on systems with long-lived data model decisions

Willingness to adopt AI tools

Job description

Location

San Francisco, California; New York, New York

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department

Engineering

About Us:

Notion helps you build beautiful tools for your life’s work. In today's world of endless apps and tabs, Notion provides one place for teams to get everything done, seamlessly connecting docs, notes, projects, calendar, and email—with AI built in to find answers and automate work. Millions of users, from individuals to large organizations like Toyota, Figma, and OpenAI, love Notion for its flexibility and choose it because it helps them save time and money.

In-person collaboration is essential to Notion's culture. We require all team members to work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays.

About the Role:

Collections Experience owns the product experience for Notion’s database block and everything on top of it: properties, views, forms, permissions, and many more features. If you’ve ever typed /database in a Notion page, you’ve already used something our team built.

We’re hiring an experienced software engineer to accelerate our mission to build a flexible, reliable, and intuitive primitive that gives everyone the power to model their work exactly as they imagine— from simple lists to the most complex workflows.

We’re 8+ engineers, designers, and PMs across SF and NYC. You’ll work across the stack in TypeScript, ship features that touch both the data model and the UI, and help shape where the database block goes next.

What You'll Achieve:

• Design and ship new database properties and views that expand what people can model in Notion
• Design permission models that hold up at the scale of our largest customers
• Partner with the Agent team to grow what Notion Agent can do with databases, from tool development to eval-driven iteration
• Collaborate closely with product and design on features that are ambiguous up front and require strong technical judgment to scope
• Raise the bar on code review, testing, and technical design across the team

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• 10+ years shipping production software, with a strong track record of owning features end-to-end
• Fluency with TypeScript across both backend and frontend
• Strong product instincts: you can take a vague problem, propose a solid technical approach, and know when to cut scope
• Experience on systems where data model decisions have long-lived consequences (databases, permissions, collaborative editing, or similar)
• You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results.

Nice to Haves:

• Experience building database, spreadsheet, or workflow tools
• Background in permissions or authorization systems at scale
• Familiarity with AI/agent tooling, evals, or LLM-driven product experiences

We hire talented and passionate people from a variety of backgrounds because we want our global employee base to represent the wide diversity of our customers. If you’re excited about a role but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every bullet point listed in the job description, we still encourage you to apply. If you’re a builder at heart, share our company values, and enthusiastic about making software toolmaking ubiquitous, we want to hear from you.

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 due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.

Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits. The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s experience and expertise, and may vary from the range provided below. For roles based in San Francisco or New York City, the estimated base salary range for this role is $272,000 - $320,000 per year.

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