Engineering Manager, Search

Key Skills

Java Programming, Design, Python Programming, SQL, Apache Hadoop, Apache Kafka, Machine learning techniques, Apache Airflow, Elasticsearch, SPARK Programming, SaaS, Apache Flink, Large scale data processing

Job Description

We're on a mission to make it possible for every person, team, and company to be able to tailor their software to solve any problem and take on any challenge. Computers may be our most powerful tools, but most of us can't build or modify the software we use on them every day. At Notion, we want to change this with focus, design, and craft.

We've been working on this together since 2016, and have customers like Pixar, Mitsubishi, Figma, Plaid, Match Group, and thousands more on this journey with us. Today, we're growing fast and excited for new teammates to join us who are the best at what they do. We're passionate about building a company as diverse and creative as the millions of people Notion reaches worldwide.

About The Role:

You'll lead the team responsible for crafting and improving the search and discovery experience in Notion. You'll work with the team to delight our users by building innovative products around full-text search, ranking, personalization, and recommendations. You'll play a critical role in ensuring that our users derive more value from the product as the size of their workspace grows. In this highly cross-functional role, the scope of your team will cover product, infrastructure and data solutions.

What You'll Achieve:

• You'll hire, challenge and retain a diverse, inclusive and highly effective team of engineers
• You’ll work with Product, Design and your Engineering peers to build and deliver on a longterm and impactful roadmap for search & discovery
• You'll cultivate an environment of technical excellence, predictable delivery and personal growth for your team
• You'll participate in shaping how the engineering organization works— you'll help develop our technical practices, recruiting and onboarding strategy, planning and prioritization process, and more

Skills You'll Need to Bring:

• You have managed search, ML, or data teams with a record for shipping high-quality data products. You nurture collaborative, supportive and challenging environments where engineers grow and do their best work
• You inspire others and are comfortable driving the vision for a nascent function
• You effectively communicate business needs and technical details to a diverse audience
• You have experience with designing, building and maintaining complex distributed systems (backend engineering, data infrastructure, search infrastructure or natural language processing/machine learning)
• You embrace cross-functional work. You proactively collect and prioritize user needs, build strong partnerships and deliver solutions that gracefully evolve over time

Nice to Haves:

• You have worked at a fast-growing start-up, a SaaS company or are eager to contribute in such an environment (being a current Notion user would be great!)
• You have hands-on experience building full-text search (e.g Lucene, Elasticsearch, Solr or other proprietary solutions), recommendation systems, large scale data solutions (e.g. Spark, Flink, Kafka, Airflow, Hadoop)
• 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.

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 made due to a disability, please let your recruiter know.