Goodnotes
Senior Software Engineer, Web Cross-platform (Portugal Remote)
Job Summary
This role involves developing and shipping cross-platform applications for iOS, Web, Android, and Windows, with a focus on UI development using frameworks like React and Redux. The candidate should have extensive experience building modern web applications, cross-platform SDKs, and deploying cloud-based solutions, preferably on AWS. Responsibilities also include testing, performance optimization, and exploring new technologies such as WebAssembly to improve user experience. The position offers flexible remote work, professional growth benefits, and a collaborative environment aligned with the company's innovative and user-centric values.
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Job Description
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 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.
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
- 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
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 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
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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