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 college students to educators to large organizations like 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 and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days.

This position is based in San Francisco, CA. Relocation assistance available.

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About The Team:

Notion’s flexibility comes from a small set of powerful primitives—our core software building blocks that can be composed into many different products.

By primitives and building blocks, we mean features like:

• Databases and views that represent data and UI, and power use cases from project management and CRMs to knowledgebases.
• Pages, comments, reactions, permissions, and teamspaces that define how information is structured, shared, and discussed.
• The underlying product and technical systems that let these primitives be reused, extended, and packaged into solutions for different customers.

The Primitive Foundations team exists to make these building blocks more robust, reusable, and understandable across Notion. We:

• Help decompose new product ideas and use-cases into the right primitive solutions.
• Build and evolve those primitives so they work well across many product surfaces.
• Partner closely with other product teams, designers, and product managers to turn primitives into complete products that customers love.

About The Role:

As a Software Engineer on Primitive Foundations, you will work across the stack to design, build, and evolve Notion’s core building blocks.

What You'll Achieve:

• Shape Notion’s primitives: Work on the foundational pieces of Notion’s building blocks—such as databases, views, and layout systems—so they can support more complex workflows over time.
• Turn use cases into systems: Partner with other product teams to decompose user problems into primitive-level improvements, and design solutions that can be reused across many product areas.