Senior Fullstack Engineer (UK/ Europe Timezone)

Goodnotes; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech startup in the UK is seeking a Senior Full Stack Engineer to enhance its core iOS App for cross-platform compatibility. This role offers the opportunity to lead modern web application development using React and TypeScript, and is part of a collaborative, autonomous team. The position allows for remote and flexible working, competitive compensation, and various benefits including medical insurance and equity.

Benefits

Remote, flexible working

Medical insurance for you and your dependents

Great annual leave allowance

Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startup

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of related working experience, with a record of learning from mistakes.
• Can ship great quality products efficiently, following best practices.
• Experience building PWA with offline capabilities, bonus for WebAssembly.

Responsibilities

• Bring core iOS App to cross-platforms using SDKs.
• Build prototypes/simulations from mockups.
• Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations.
• Support, maintenance, and ongoing development for existing applications.
• Unit-test code for robustness including edge cases.
• Discover and implement new technologies to maximize efficiency.

Skills

Experience building modern web applications using libraries and frameworks like: React/Redux

Expertise with TypeScript

Experience building cross-platform SDKs

Expertise in cloud storage and deployment

Strong fundamentals in Computer Science

Excellent problem-solving skills

Job description

Senior Full Stack Engineer (UK/ Europe Timezone)

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. 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.

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.

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 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
• Improve rendering performance and memory optimizations to create a performant UX
• 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

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, 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)

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!

The 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. 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.

What’s in it for you:

• 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 things like noise‑cancelling 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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