GoodNotes

Benefits:

• 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 (we met in Portugal in 2023 and will go to Bali in 2024)

• Flexible working hours and location Medical insurance for you and your dependents

Experience Requirements:

• Mastery in at least one JVM programming language.

• A good knowledge of idiomatic Kotlin and familiarity with Kotlin concurrency model is your extra advantage

• Experience running high-performance and high-load JVM based workloads on Kubernetes (e.g. AWS EKS) and AWS Lambda services

• Good understanding of modern distributed databases (we use CockroachDB so it will be an extra advantage if you worked with CockroachDB open-source or Enterprise in the past especially if you were also involved in setting up and operating self-hosted CRDB clusters)

• Expertise in identifying access patterns, defining optimal relational data models and indexing strategiesKnowledge of non-relational distributed databasesPrevious experience in building client-facing APIs and deep understanding of various L7 communication protocols (HTTP, gRPC, WebSocket, webRTC)Expertise in cloud storage, deployment and computing. We use AWS but we’re open to other platform experienceKnowledge of infrastructure as code (IaC) tools such as Terraform and AWS CDKAn ideal candidate should also have experience in building collaborative real-time tools (e.g. Google Docs, Slack, etc.) and/or data synchronisation/backup solutions (e.g. iCloud, Dropbox)Deep understanding of computer science fundamentalsYou have led the development of complex systems from inception to millions of usersRobust software engineering practices, testing and automation have no secrets for youExcellent problem-solving and story-telling skillsA love of software craftsmanship, you have a strong desire of self-improvement through side projects and sharingGood sense of the best tools for any task

Responsibilities:

• Architect and design scalable solutions that are easy to maintain to allow the development of exciting features and support more users.

• Implement elegant solutions with clean code.

• Enable communication across multiple Mobile, Web Frontend, Backend Services and QA 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 testingShare your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team

Benefits:

• An all-expenses-paid trip to the Goodnotes office in Hong Kong or London

• Your own free MacBook Pro and other tech devices

• Your favorite Goodnotes merchandise

• Gift cards of your choice and more!

Experience Requirements:

• A user of Goodnotes — whether a student, educator, or a professional — who knows their way around the platform, from lasso to handwriting recognition.

• A note-taking aficionado your friends and colleagues turn to for productivity advice and ingenious hacks.

• A social media connoisseur who has mastered the art of captivating audiences, whether in the form of Instagram campaigns or blog posts

Responsibilities:

• Represent Goodnotes with all your sophistication and flair

• Grow the community by encouraging app downloads

• Create unique and captivating content on your platform

• Organize IRL brand events that foster genuine connection and passion. That could be anything from study sessions to volunteering workshops to EdTech conferences

Benefits:

• Remote working or join our London/ HK offices

• Flexible working hours and location

• Medical insurance for you and your dependents

• Great annual leave allowance

• Meaningful equity in a profitable tech startupBudget for things like noise-cancelling headphones, setting up your home office, personal development, professional training, and health & wellnessSponsored visits to our Hong Kong or London office every 2 yearsCompany-wide annual offsiteFantastic maternity/paternity packages and allowances

Experience Requirements:

• Experience developing rich text editors

• Good grasp of common algorithms and their performance characteristics

• Maker at heart

• Experience working in small teams, delivering great products with high-quality code.

• Experience with at least one systems programming language (C/C++/Rust/Objective-C/Swift/…)

Responsibilities:

• Contribute substantially to our text editor architecture, including fundamental data structures, editing, multiplayer features, layout, and rendering.

• Implement a cross-platform rich text editor with multiplayer capabilities.

• Work closely with technical and product leaders on planning and prioritisation.

• Join the Text Editing team and collaborate closely with other senior engineers.

• Share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team. If you have the skills and interest to lead an entire team of engineers, we can also offer you the position of Engineering Manager for the Text Editing team