Senior Full Stack Engineer

Goodnotes; Remote; GBP 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital note-taking company is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to work on cross-platform applications. The role requires strong skills in React/Redux and TypeScript, with at least 5 years of related experience. You will build innovations that blend human creativity and AI capabilities. The position offers flexibility to work remotely and various employee benefits to foster a vibrant work environment.

Benefits

Remote and flexible working

Medical insurance

Great annual leave allowance

Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startup

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of related working experience.
• Experience building modern web applications.
• Expertise in cloud storage and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Build cross-platform SDKs for the core iOS App.
• Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations.
• Continuously discover and implement new technologies.

Skills

React/Redux experience

Expertise with TypeScript

Problem solving skills

Good communication skills

Experience building PWA

Education

Related bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Tools

AWS

GitHub Actions

Terraform

Job description

Senior Full Stack Engineer (UK/ Europe Timezone)

London, England, United Kingdom, Europe Time Zone

At Goodnotes, we believe that every individual holds untapped potential waiting to be unleashed. By reimagining the way we interact with information, we’re merging human creativity with the breakthrough capabilities of AI. Our renewed vision and mission drive us to create the best medium for human and AI collaboration, empowering users to explore new dimensions of productivity, creativity, and learning. Join us on this journey as we transform digital note‑taking into an inspiring and innovative experience.

Our Values

• Dream big — Be visionary, strategic, and open to innovation
• Build great things — Work in service of our users, always improving and pushing higher
• Operate like an owner — Take responsibility with bold decision‑making and bias for action
• Win like a sports team — Be trusting and collaborative while empowering others
• Learn and grow fast — Never stop learning and iterate fast
• Share our passion — Share ideas and practice enthusiasm and joy
• Be user obsessed — Empathetic, inquisitive, practical

About the team

Multiple teams are hiring concurrently for this function. 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 serving dozens of millions of users.

You will use a broad and modern tech stack with:

• Programming Language: TypeScript for Frontend, Kotlin for backend services
• Frameworks and Libraries: React/Redux and WebAssembly to compile our Swift core logic
• Monitoring and Logging: Datadog for monitoring and logging, metrics collected across agents and logs via metric filters, updated directly from Lambda functions or the application
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code: Terraform
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions for CI, ArgoCD for CD
• Deployments: Multiple EKS clusters for Blue/Green rollouts or dedicated feature sets, updated via ArgoCD and Atlantis
• Databases: MongoDB and a self‑managed CockroachDB cluster on EKS
• Automation: We believe in automating ourselves out of our jobs

About the role

This is the role for you, if you’re excited to work on the things listed below:

• Bring our core iOS App to cross platforms (Web, Android, Windows) based on scope and requirements, using cross‑platform SDKs
• Rapidly build prototypes/simulations from mockups that can be directly implemented
• Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations to create a performant UX
• Support, maintain and continue 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 utilizing latest technologies

The skills you will need to be successful in the above:

• Experience building modern web applications using libraries and frameworks like React/Redux
• Expertise with TypeScript
• At least 5 years of related working experience, including lessons learned; very senior developers who can lead complex initiatives are welcome
• Experience building cross‑platform SDKs for shipping one or more non‑trivial apps to respective app stores
• Expertise in cloud storage, deployment, and computing; we use AWS but are open to other platforms
• Can ship great quality products efficiently, following best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, version control)
• Strong fundamentals in Computer Science, knowing 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)

At Goodnotes, we want to build a team as diverse as our user base. Even if you don’t meet all the above requirements, you may still be a great fit for the role, so please consider still applying. If you align with our values, are passionate about our product and what you do, we would love to hear from you!

Interview Process

• Introduction: The Talent Team wants to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes.
• Live coding & Technical interview: A live coding call with one of our engineers.
• Hiring Manager interview: A call with your hiring manager.
• Values interview – Meeting with members of the Goodnotes Team to answer questions related to taking ownership and building great things.

Benefits

• Remote, flexible working
• Flexible working hours and location
• Medical insurance for you and your dependents
• Great annual leave allowance
• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startup
• Budget for noise‑canceling headphones, setting up your home office, personal development, professional training, and health & wellness
• Sponsored visits to our Hong Kong or London office every 2 years
• Company‑wide annual offsite
• Fantastic maternity/paternity packages and allowances

Note: Employment is contingent upon successful completion of background checks, including verification of employment, education, and criminal records.

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