Full Stack Engineer, Goodnotes
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Top-rated note-taking app
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Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the best medium for human and AI collaboration.
Role
Who you are
- Experience building modern web applications using libraries and frameworks like: React/Redux: through internships, coursework, or personal projects
- Expertise with TypeScript
- 2+ years of related working experience (or equivalent internships) with clear examples of lessons learned
- Exposure to cross-platform SDKs or a drive to ship the same experience across devices
- Familiarity with cloud storage, deployment, and computing concepts; AWS experience is great but curiosity matters more
- Ability to follow best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, version control) and raise blockers quickly
- Strong fundamentals in Computer Science or adjacent disciplines, plus an eagerness to keep learning how things work under the hood
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and story-telling skills
- Experience building cross-platform solutions — or at least a tinkerer’s interest in WebAssembly and related cross-platform technologies
What the job involves
- You will be part of a small, cross-functional, autonomous, distributed team across Europe and Asia in charge of one of the most important components in our app, thus being reliant on by a lot of other functional teams and integral to showcasing their work
- You will have shared time for collaborative activities such as planning, retros, stand-ups, and brainstorming sessions
- Some interesting challenges the teams face are implementing new technologies such as AI, for multiple platforms, and dozens of millions of users
- You will be working alongside a team of experienced engineers with high quality mentorship support and help drive you to success, enabling you to become a valuable member of the team and stand on your own
- You will use a broad and modern tech stack with:
- Programming Language: We use TypeScript for Frontend. Our backend services are written in Kotlin
- Frameworks and Libraries: We use React/Redux and WebAssembly to compile our Swift core logic
- Monitoring and Logging: We are currently using Datadog for monitoring and logging. Metrics are collected across our agents, taken from the logs using metric filters, and updated directly from lambda function or the application
- Infrastructure-as-Code: Most of our infrastructure is written with Terraform
- CI/CD: We currently use GitHub Actions for CI, and ArgoCD for CD
- Deployments: We have multiple EKS clusters set up either for Blue/Green rollouts or dedicated feature sets. We are currently updating these clusters using ArgoCD and Atlantis
- Our main databases are MongoDB and a self-managed CockroachDB cluster running on EKS
- We believe in automating ourselves out of our jobs
- Bring our core iOS App to cross platforms i.e. Web, Android and Windows systems, based on scope and requirements, using cross-platform SDKs
- Rapidly build prototypes/simulations from mockups, state your assumptions, and iterate with mentor feedback
- Create decoupled, interactive web/mobile UIs using JavaScript Frameworks such as React and new technologies like WebAssembly
- Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations to create a performant UX
- Perform cross-browser/device testing and optimisation
- Support, maintenance and ongoing development for existing applications and projects, owning bug triage rotations that build judgment
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency, leaning into curiosity about multiple languages, runtimes, and tools
- Shipping Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to various platforms utilising latest technologies, pairing on deployments until you can run the playbook yourself
Application process
- Introduction: The Talent Team want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
- Take-home Assignment: A short online coding skills test
- Live coding & Technical interview: A live coding call with one of our engineers. This is where you get to see what it would be like working at Goodnotes as well as the chance to ask any engineering questions you may have
- Hiring Manager interview: A call with your hiring manager. This is the person who will be managing you day to day, working on your growth and development with you as well as support you throughout your career at Goodnotes
- Values interview – Meeting with members of the Goodnotes Team to answer questions relating to take ownership AND build great things
- Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, including verification of employment, education, and criminal records
Our take
Goodnotes is a digital note-taking tool for handwritten notes and (formerly) paper-based information. Thanks to its signature vector ink engine, the app delivers a precise and natural writing experience. It can read handwriting (even the worst handwriting) and allow users to search it, as well as convert it to text for easy sharing into other apps or even web pages. Goodnotes also supports importing, searching, and navigation through PDF, PowerPoint, Word, image files, and more.
The platform is available across iPhone, iPad and Mac. One of the leading note-taking solutions on the App Store (with over 14,000 positive reviews) it competes with apps like Notability and Paper by WeTransfer. Founded in Hong Kong, Goodnotes now operates across the UK and with a number of new features and acquisitions, its proving a powerhouse in digital productivity.
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Focus on employee wellbeing
"Company cares about each and everyones wellbeing. A monthly budget is provided for everyone to take care of their physical and mental wellbeing. You..."
Funding (1 round)
Jun 2020
$6m
SEED
Total funding: $6m
Company benefits
- Stock options: Meaningful equity in a profitable tech-startup
- Excellent annual leave package + public holidays
- Flexible working hours and location, we're remote friendly!
- Medical insurance for you and your family
- Continuous learning: A learning and development budget or training or courses to build your skills
- Be your best self: A monthly budget for personal growth including books, language/music lessons and online courses
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Monthly wellness budget: Covering gym membership, therapy, massage and much, much more
- Amazing office space in central London and Hong Kong. Your Travel and lunch are also on us!
- Home office set up: Everything you need to create a productive workspace at home. Chairs, desks, hardware, it's covered
- Sponsored working visa with a relocation package to either of our office locations
- Annual team off-site: Get to know your colleagues
- Professional coffee equipment and freshly roasted beans in our offices
Company values
- Dream big
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
- Be user obsessed
Company HQ
London, UK
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Leadership
Steven Chan
(Founder & CEO)Goodnotes was created from Steven's frustration with taking readable and reusable handwritten notes on his first iPad. Since then, the company has grown to millions of happy users.
Paul Onnen
(Senior Vice President of Engineering)Paul loves building things that help make people's lives better and they are using this experience to help Goodnotes be successful as we continue to grow.
Minh Tran
(COO)Minh is a seasoned people and business leader who is obsessed with searching for the world’s best talent and building winning teams that are highly skilled, innovative, and passionate.
Rowena Chung
(Director of Product)Rowena leads product discovery and strategy across Goodnotes' product group. She is committed to understanding the users’ needs and enhancing their productivity and experience with the app.
People progressing
Bret joined Goodnotes in 2018 as a Senior Software Engineer. In 2023 he was promoted to a Principal Engineer.
Joined Goodnotes in 2021 as a Senior ML Engineer and is now a Senior Engineering Manager, leading a product team to build an incredible AI productivity experience impacting millions of users.
Cam joined Goodnotes as a Senior Brand Designer and 3 years later became the Global Brand Design Lead!
Rammy joined Goodnotes as a Senior QA Engineer in December 2019, transitioned to QA lead after 2.5 years and again to QA manager after 4 months.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Goodnotes
Vivien Ko (People Ops Manager)
- We are a team of c 270, from 39 different countries... and still growing
- We believe diverse teams create better outcomes for users, teams, and businesses
- Learn more about one of our Female Directors https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/rowena-product-manager
- We know there's still a lot more we need to do - and we want you to be part of helping us on our DE&I journey!
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