Senior Software Engineer

Join Our Team as a Senior Software Engineer

About Notion

Notion, a Comcast company, is a smart monitoring system that empowers home and property owners to proactively monitor their spaces and most valued possessions. Our multifunctional sensor and app are designed to reduce risk and simplify property ownership. We partner with leading insurance and service providers to help property owners prevent small issues from becoming big headaches.

Role Overview

We are seeking a Senior Software Engineer to join our dynamic team. As a Senior Software Engineer, you will be an individual contributor on the software engineering team, working on a range of technologies, including mobile and web, distributed computing, and Internet of Things security. You will collaborate closely with fast-paced and highly skilled individuals across the entire Notion team.

Key Responsibilities

• Own:

  • Write clean, tested, and extensible code.
  • Review Notion’s security standards holistically.
  • Lead epics of work with cross-functional teams to define, design, and ship new features.
  • Proactively communicate any requirement changes and align the team.
  • Debug complex issues and participate in the on-call rotation to support the Notion platform.

• Teach:

  • Represent the Backend Team in cross-functional planning meetings.
  • Share industry best practices and mentor engineers.
  • Pair with other backend engineers as needed.

• Learn:

  • Understand all services and the data pipeline that comprises the Notion platform.
  • Advocate for process changes and remain apprised of current software development best practices and trends.

• Improve:

  • Participate in code reviews and contribute to Notion Security standards.
  • Bring recommendations to retrospectives and contribute experience and knowledge during team discussions.

Required Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, computer engineering, electrical engineering, or equivalent work experience.
• 6+ years of experience in a modern object-oriented language.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented programming.
• Extreme sense of ownership and self-driven.
• Ability to collaborate and work well with others in a high-paced, fun environment.
• Ability to deliver high-quality and effective solutions while balancing deadlines.

Nice to Haves

• Database performance tuning.
• Experience handling massive volumes of continuous data.
• TLS/SSL experience.
• Experience with AWS products.
• Experience with Docker and general DevOps knowledge.
• HTML/CSS/JS experience.

Our Tech Stack

Notion’s platform is hosted on AWS and is primarily written in Ruby. Our API is served by Ruby on Rails and uses PostgreSQL. Our CI/CD tool of choice is CircleCI, and we utilize New Relic to monitor our system's health. RabbitMQ handles the majority of messages being passed across services.

Compensation

• Salary Range: $115,428.30 - $173,142.45 per year.
• Base pay is one part of the Total Rewards that Comcast provides to compensate and recognize employees for their work.

Benefits

Comcast provides best-in-class benefits, including health insurance, paid vacation, and more. We believe that benefits should connect you to the support you need when it matters most and help you care for those who matter most.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Notion is an Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) employer. We do not discriminate based on race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion, national origin, age, disability, or veteran status.

Join us at Notion and help people protect the things they love most!