Senior Software Engineer, Goodnotes
Web Cross-platform
£115-150k
+ Equity
Top-rated note-taking app
Open for applications
Top-rated note-taking app
201-500 employees
Open for applications
£115-150k
+ 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
- Experience building modern web applications using libraries and frameworks like: React/Redux
- Expertise with TypeScript
- At least 5 years of related working experience, you've made mistakes and learned from it, we also welcome very senior developers who can lead complex initiatives
- Experience building cross-platform SDKs for shipping one or more non-trivial apps on respective app stores
- Expertise in cloud storage, deployment and computing. We use AWS but we’re open to other platform experience
- Can ship great quality products efficiently, you follow best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, version control)
- Strong fundamentals in Computer Science, you know how things work under the hood
- Excellent problem-solving, communication, and story-telling skills
- Experience building PWA with offline-capabilities, bonus if you have used WebAssembly (WASM)
What the job involves
- Still, regardless, you will be part of a small, cross-functional, autonomous, distributed team across Europe and Asia in charge of one part of the product or the business end-to-end
- 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
- 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 that can be directly implemented
- Create decoupled, interactive web/mobile UIs using JavaScript Frameworks such as React/Redux 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
- Unit-test code for robustness, including edge cases, usability, and general reliability
- Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency
- Shipping Progressive Web Apps (PWA) to various platforms utilising latest technologies
- You will use a broad and modern tech stack with:
- Programming Language: We use TypeScript for Frontend. Our backend services are written in TypeScript and Kotlin
- Frameworks and Libraries: We use React/Redux and WebAssembly
- 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
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
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 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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Insights
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back within 2 weeks
39% female employees
36% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Employee endorsements
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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