Backend Engineer - Notion Integrations

About Us Notion State is a premier Notion consultancy serving SMB and enterprise clients. Our portfolio includes Affirm, Typeform, HoneyBook, Articulate, Notion themselves, and many others. Being Notion experts is table stakes. We serve as embedded operational partners, spanning process strategy and design, implementation, and change management. Our aim is to be our clients' full-scope experts for organizing how they operate. The Role We're hiring a Backend Engineer, Integrations & Automations (fully remote, contract, ~20 hrs/week) to build the automations that extend what our clients' Notion workspaces can do, and to grow into owning that practice with us. This is a build-first role with a clear runway. You'll start behind the scenes, partnering with our consultants who bring you client requirements. As you earn trust, the role expands: more hours, direct client ownership, and a leadership stake in our Worker practice as demand scales. We're not looking for a pair of hands. We're looking for the person who will help define how this practice gets built. Most of your work will center on Notion Workers, Notion's hosted runtime for custom code: small Node/TypeScript programs that sync external data on a schedule, handle webhooks, and give Notion's agents new tools. You'll also write custom code for integrations and automations beyond Workers, connecting the systems our clients already use and handling the tasks native Notion can't. (New to Notion Workers? Here's Notion's overview.) You'll own these end to end, from spec to ship, then maintaining, debugging, and keeping them healthy for as long as they're live. What You'll Do - Build, customize, and ship Notion Workers and custom integrations for SMB and enterprise clients - Maintain, debug, and improve them once they're live - Translate client requirements into clear specs and thorough build plans - Own quality from spec to ship, with real controls built into your process - Partner with consultants to scope requests accurately - Grow into direct client communication: requirements, demos, and status updates - Help shape how the Worker practice is built as it scales What We're Looking For This role is built around AI. Notion Workers are designed to be built with AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex, and you'll lean on that tooling every day. That's exactly why the bar is on you: when AI writes the code, the engineer's judgment is what keeps it reliable, maintainable, and correct. We want the human who keeps the quality bar high, not a portfolio an agent generated unsupervised. - 4+ years of genuine, hands-on engineering experience building real software in a professional setting - Fluent directing AI tooling to produce quality work, rather than depending on it to think for you - TypeScript / JavaScript familiarity (Notion Workers are Node/TypeScript) - Strong fundamentals: you understand best practices for working with APIs and move confidently into unfamiliar territory - A track record integrating tools into existing systems and third-party APIs - A sharp problem-solver who defines and refines specs and plans a build before writing a line - A real bar for quality, and the controls to back it up - Clear, proactive communication - Available during US business hours Nice to Haves - Notion Workers or Notion API experience - Experience maintaining live integrations over time You'll be successful in this role if: - You ship quality workers with minimal oversight - You scope and plan thoroughly before you build, and your specs hold up - You keep live workers healthy: reliable, maintained, and quick to debug - You communicate clearly and proactively, with the team now and clients soon Growth Trajectory This is a ground-floor role on a growing engineering practice. It starts as a part-time contract focused on building, with a clear path to expanded hours, direct client ownership, and a leadership stake in our Worker practice as demand scales. The more the practice grows, the bigger your hand in shaping it. Compensation & Benefits - Competitive pay - Performance-based bonuses - Fully remote with a flexible schedule, within US hours - ~20 hours per week to start - Professional development support for the tools you build with - Flexible time off (with clear advance notice, calendar blocking/OOO status, and documented coverage handoffs to keep client work moving smoothly). - Paid trips to retreats like MWN or other Notion events globally Why Join Us? You'll build the products that define a new category. As a direct Notion partner, your workers will change how industry leaders run their operations. You'll work alongside a small, sharp team that takes craft seriously, and you'll have an outsized hand in shaping how we build, what we build, and where the practice goes next. Next Steps Submit your resume and cover letter explaining your interest and relevant experience. Our process includes (but is not limited to): 1. Initial screening call (30 minutes) 2. A technical deep-dive: a walkthrough of something you've built, covering the decisions, the tradeoffs, what you'd do differently, and how you approach a build. This may include a short, screen-shared working session using your own AI tooling. 3. Final interview with our Head of Engineering and leadership team Qualified candidates should submit: - Current resume/CV - Cover letter explaining your interest and relevant experience - A link to something you've built