Principal Engineer, Goodnotes
Cross-platform Architecture, Mobile and Web
£125-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
Top-rated note-taking app
Open for applications
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£125-200k
+ Equity
More information about location
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create the best medium for human and AI collaboration.
Role
Who you are
- Strong technical background in building and scaling high-impact B2C products, ideally with millions of users
- Deep expertise in mobile or web architecture – whether iOS (Swift), cross-platform (WASM), or frontend (React), you have the hands-on skills to make decisions and prototype when needed
- Proven experience architecting complex systems – you’ve made key design decisions that have stood the test of time and scale, ideally in a cross-platform or multi-client environment
- Ability to influence and lead across teams – even without direct management, you help engineers make better decisions through mentorship, communication, and technical leadership
- Passion for architecture and innovation – you stay current with the latest technologies, architectures, and practices in mobile, web, and platform development
Desirable
- Experience with real-time collaborative productivity products
- Experience with local/offline-first experience and event-sourced systems
- Experience leading architectural initiatives across multiple teams or working closely with engineering leadership
What the job involves
- Your teams will own the core architecture for our Cross-platform application for Mobile and Web, which serves millions of monthly active users
- Architecture & Technical Strategy – Define and evolve the architecture for our cross-platform app, ensuring it is scalable, performant, and maintainable. Drive technical direction and long-term strategy aligned with product goals
- Cross-functional Collaboration – Partner with product, design, and engineering teams to shape solutions that deliver great user experiences while meeting engineering constraints
- Hands-on Technical Leadership – Dive deep when needed: write reference implementations, lead architecture reviews, and support teams with technical guidance and mentorship
- System Design & Quality – Champion best practices in system design, modularity, code quality, and testing. Identify and address system-level issues before they impact product delivery
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
- 1 Live coding & 1 Technical interview: with one of our Engineers
- Hiring Manager interview: A call with our VP of Engineering to discuss leadership/management experience and biggest challenges
- Present your passion - A short presentation about something you love and enjoy
Salary benchmarks
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
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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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