Software Engineer Intern (Summer 2026)

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2 Locations
Hybrid
57-61
Internship
Artificial Intelligence • Productivity • Software
Notion is the AI workspace where teams and AI agents get more done together.
The Role
As a Software Engineer Intern, you'll write clean code, enhance the Notion platform, and develop product functionality while working closely with a mentor.
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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 and Thursdays, our designated Anchor Days. Certain teams or positions may require additional in-office workdays. This internship will take place from May - September (based on your summer schedule) and you will need to be able to work out of our NY or SF office during this time.

About The Role:

Millions of people use Notion — and this number is increasing every day. That means a million people trust us to deliver a fast, reliable, and secure experience, and we value this more than anything. We want to keep earning trust, while also continuing to amaze our users with the tools they can build in Notion. This is where you come in.

During your 12-week internship, you will be paired with a mentor that will help guide you as you work closely with our team to build and ship impactful projects. These projects will drive valuable impact to our customers and engineers. From product engineering, mobile, to infrastructure and security, we have opportunities available on different teams. Take a look at what our past intern cohort worked on with our Blog post here and here and TikTok post.

What You'll Achieve:
  • Write clean, secure, tested, and documented code.

  • Design & enhance the Notion platform with new capabilities, as and when the need arises.

  • Design, develop, and own new product functionality and/or infrastructure leveraging modern frameworks and tooling.

  • Develop, fix and debug software for web services, databases, applications, tools, networks.

Qualifications:
  • Pursuing a bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, engineering, or another related field. Must graduate before July 2027.

  • Previous internship experience.

  • Working towards a proficiency of one or more programming languages such as Typescript, Node.js, Go, Python, Java, Swift, Rust, or Kotlin.

  • You find large challenges exciting and enjoy discovering problems as much as solving them.

  • You are able to problem-solve and adapt to changing priorities in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.

  • This internship will take place from May - September (based on your summer schedule) and you will need to be able to work out of our NY or SF office during this time.

Skills You’ll Need To Bring:
  • Thoughtful problem-solving: For you, problem-solving starts with a clear and accurate understanding of the context. You can decompose tricky problems and work towards a clean solution, by yourself or with teammates. You're comfortable asking for help when you get stuck.

  • For a backend internship: You have a passion for learning how parts of a system fit together—from the user interface to the data model. Familiarity with relational database systems like Postgres or MySQL is a plus.

  • For a frontend internship: You have a passion for learning technologies (CSS, Javascript, & React) and best practices in front-end architecture, including performance, accessibility and usability.

  • Put users first: You think critically about the implications of what you're building, and how it shapes real people's lives. You understand that reach comes with responsibility for our impact—good and bad.

  • Not ideological about technology: To you, technologies and programming languages are about tradeoffs. You may be opinionated, but you're not ideological and can learn new technologies as you go.

  • Empathetic communication: You communicate nuanced ideas clearly, whether you're explaining technical decisions in writing or brainstorming in real time. In disagreements, you engage thoughtfully with other perspectives and compromise when needed.

  • Team player: For you, work isn't a solo endeavor. You enjoy collaborating cross-functionally to accomplish shared goals, and you care about learning, growing, and helping others to do the same.

Nice to Haves:
  • You have expertise with specific technologies that are part of our stack, including Typescript, React, Electron, Node.js, AWS, and Postgres.

  • You've heard of computing pioneers like Ada Lovelace, Douglas Engelbart, Alan Kay, and others—and understand why we're big fans of their work.

  • You have interests outside of technology, such as in art, history, or social sciences.

Our customers come from all walks of life and so do we. We hire great people from a wide variety of backgrounds, not just because it's the right thing to do, but because it makes our company stronger. If you share our values and our enthusiasm for small businesses, you will find a home at Notion.

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 hourly range for this role is $57/hr for Bachelors and $61/hr for Master’s.

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The Company
HQ: San Francisco, CA
1,000 Employees
Year Founded: 2016

What We Do

Notion blends your everyday work tools into one. Product roadmap? Company wiki? Meeting notes? With Notion, they're all in one place, and totally customizable to meet the needs of any workflow. It's the all-in-one workspace for you, your team, and your whole company.

Mission: We humans are toolmakers by nature, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use every day — arguably our most powerful tool. Here at Notion, we're on a mission to make it possible for everyone to shape the tools that shape their lives.

Why Work With Us

Here at Notion, our work shapes our culture and our culture inspires our work. We seek to hire creative toolmakers that want to be the best in their craft. If every employee is able to focus on being the best toolmaker in their craft, we'll be able to achieve our mission of enabling the world to better solve its problems.

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Employees engage in a combination of remote and on-site work.

Employees work in-person at our offices on Mondays and Thursdays. The other three days are flexible.

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