Senior MacOS Engineer

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

Job summary

A leading digital note-taking platform is seeking a Senior macOS Engineer to enhance the Mac desktop experience for millions of users. The ideal candidate will have expertise in Swift programming, experience shipping macOS apps, and a strong problem-solving mindset. This role offers a supportive environment with flexible working hours, medical insurance, and meaningful equity in a growing tech startup. Join us to transform digital note-taking into an innovative experience.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance

Great annual leave

Meaningful equity

Qualifications

• Expertise in Swift programming and knowledge of SwiftUI is advantageous.
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals.
• Shipped one or more non-trivial macOS apps on respective app stores.

Responsibilities

• Build mission-critical services used by tens of millions of users.
• Architect and design scalable solutions.
• Implement elegant solutions with clean code.

Skills

Swift programming

SwiftUI

UIKit or AppKit

Problem-solving skills

Software craftsmanship

Education

Experience shipping macOS apps

Tools

Swift Package Manager

GitHub

CircleCI

Job description

Overview

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

The Mac Squad are driven by a mission: build the best Mac desktop experience for notes capture and presentation. Our big dream is to repeat the success of our iPad app and become the Apple Mac App of the Year. As a Senior macOS Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in bringing this vision to life. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within Goodnotes (including iPad, Design System, Foundation, Text Document), leveraging your expertise to build and refine our native desktop experience.

You'll will:

• Build mission-critical services used by tens of millions of users.
• Architect and design scalable solutions that are easy to maintain to allow development of exciting features and support more users.
• Implement elegant solutions with clean code.
• Enable communication with the Apple, Web frontend and QE teams
• Define and drive the completion of new initiatives and features by removing blockers for the team
• Continuously improve the development practices through research, automation, documentation and testing
• Share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team

You'll need

• Expertise in Swift programming. Knowledge of SwiftUI is advantageous
• Expertise in either UIKit or AppKit. Experience of bringing a big iPad app to Mac is advantageous
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, you enjoy solving algo and data structure puzzles
• Excellent problem solving, communication, and storytelling skills
• A love of software craftsmanship
• Strong sense of the best tools for any task
• Shipped one or more non-trivial macOS apps on respective app stores
• Big plus if you have experience cross-compiling codebase on different mobile platforms

Even if you don’t meet all the criteria listed above, we would still love to hear from you! Goodnotes places a lot of value on learning and development and will support your growth if needed.

The stack

• Programming Language: The vast majority of our code is written in Swift
• Concurrency: We have a large, old, but modular codebase. We use modern Swift Concurrency as much as possible as we gradually move away from RxSwift
• UI code: As much new UI code as possible is in SwiftUI. We fall back to UIKit when needed and re-use the majority of it on macOS using Catalyst
• Cross-platform: We re-use our core packages on cross-platform using SwiftWasm, UI for other platforms is written using React or their respective native APIs
• Dependencies: We exclusively use Swift Package Manager and frequently make new local packages
• Source control and builds: We have a mono-repo and use GitHub and Pull Requests. We kick off builds using a Slack bot
• Continuous Integration: We use CircleCI which means our configuration is checked in with our code. We have unit tests for all of our modules which run on every branch. UI tests are run daily and before release
• Release cadence: We QA and release on a weekly schedule

The interview 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.
• Technical Screening: A timed coding challenge on the Hackerrank platform.
• Onsite Live coding & Technical interview: A live coding session with one of our engineers in our London/ Singapore/ Hong Kong offices. 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
• AI Literacy: We want to see how you understand and use AI in your day to day
• 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 our company values

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

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What’s in it for you

• Remote friendly
• 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.

Selected applicants will be contacted by Goodnotes regarding next steps in the recruitment process.

Goodnotes is an equal opportunity employer. We value diversity and are committed to creating inclusive environments for all employees.

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