Principal Engineer - Cross-platform Architecture - Mobile and Web

GoodNotes; Mobile (AL); Remote; USD 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading digital note-taking company is seeking a Principal Engineer for Cross-platform Architecture to drive the technical strategy of their app. You'll collaborate across teams to create scalable solutions that enhance user experiences. The ideal candidate has a strong technical background and experience in architecting complex systems. This role supports remote work with competitive benefits and a focus on learning and development.

Benefits

Flexible working hours

Medical insurance for dependents

Annual leave allowance

Meaningful equity in the company

Budget for home office setup

Sponsored visits to global offices every 2 years

Maternity/paternity packages

Qualifications

• Strong technical background in building and scaling high-impact B2C products, ideally with millions of users.
• Deep expertise in mobile or web architecture, including iOS, cross-platform, or frontend.
• Proven experience architecting complex systems that are scalable and maintainable.

Responsibilities

• Define and evolve the architecture for our cross-platform app ensuring scalability and performance.
• Partner with product and design teams to create user-centric solutions.
• Drive technical direction and mentorship within the team.

Skills

Building and scaling B2C products

Cross-platform architecture expertise

Influencing across teams

Coding skills

Knowledge of real-time collaborative products

Job description

Principal Engineer - Cross-platform Architecture - Mobile and Web

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 — Propel company success and impact with an entrepreneurial mindset
• 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

You join a distributed team across Europe and Asia, with shared time for collaborative activities such as planning, retros, stand-ups, and brainstorming sessions. Your teams will own the core architecture for our Cross-platform application for Mobile and Web, which serves millions of monthly active users.

About the role:

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

• 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.
• Coding – Prototyping and solving some of our most complex technical challenges.

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

• 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.
• 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.
• Passion for architecture and innovation – you stay current with the latest technologies, architectures, and practices in mobile, web, and platform development.

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.

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
• 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

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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