Senior Backend Engineer, Goodnotes
AI Team
£70-150k
+ Equity
Top-rated note-taking app
Job no longer available
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
£70-150k
+ Equity
201-500 employees
Company mission
To empower people with knowledge through digital paper and innovations. We're reimagining what productivity looks like through a digital pen and paper!
Role
Who you are
- 7+ years of software engineering experience, notable part of it being in the data engineering space
- Experience with designing and building data pipelines
- Expertise in distributed systems, as well as different database systems and big data solutions
- Previous experience in designing, building and maintaining cloud infrastructure to support machine learning operations
- Experience in backend monitoring
- Experience with working in Python and basic understanding of the ML ecosystem
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to think critically
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written
What the job involves
- We are seeking an experienced and passionate software engineer to help us build our AI and data infrastructure
- This person will work on building the end-to-end data pipeline, both in production and for training, as well as the infrastructure for training, hosting and running our ML models in production (on the cloud, on our servers and on-device)
- Build and maintain end-to-end backend infrastructure for training and running our models in production
- Design and build components within data pipelines for collecting production data
- Data engineering for efficient ingestion of data for the model training and evaluation
- Helping the team build and maintain compute training and inference infrastructure
- Monitoring the production and setting up alerting mechanisms
Application process
- An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They 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
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 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 with over 80 employees, working on building additional products alongside its core app.
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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
- Meaningful equity options in a fast-growing company
- Monthly budget for personal growth development & yearly budget for professional development
- Monthly health & wellness budget - used for gyms, massages, treatments etc.
- MacBook Pro/your choice of hardware
- Flexible working hours and remote working opportunities
- Annual offsite
- Noise cancelling headphones
- Work from home budget to upgrade your home office
- 30 days holiday (plus public holidays)
- Health insurance for you and dependants
Company values
- Dream big
- Be user obsessed
- Build great things
- Operate as an owner
- Win like a sports team
- Learn and grow fast
- Share our passion
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
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 our 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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