Senior Full Stack Engineer Europe Timezone

Senior Full Stack Engineer (UK/ Europe Timezone)

London, England, 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.

• 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

Multiple teams are hiring concurrently for this function. 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 serving dozens of millions of users.

You will use a broad and modern tech stack with:

• Programming Language:
  Type Script for Frontend, Kotlin for backend services
• Frameworks and Libraries:
  React/Redux and Web Assembly to compile our Swift core logic
• Monitoring and Logging:
  Datadog for monitoring and logging, metrics collected across agents and logs via metric filters, updated directly from Lambda functions or the application
• Infrastructure‑as‑Code:
  Terraform
• CI/CD:
  Git Hub Actions for CI, ArgoCD for CD
• Deployments:
  Multiple EKS clusters for Blue/Green rollouts or dedicated feature sets, updated via ArgoCD and Atlantis
• Databases:
  Mongo
  
  DB and a self‑managed Cockroach
  
  DB cluster on EKS
• Automation:
  We believe in automating ourselves out of our jobs

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 (Web, Android, Windows) 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, maintain and continue 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 utilizing 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 Type Script
• At least 5 years of related working experience, including lessons learned; very senior developers who can lead complex initiatives are welcome
• Experience building cross‑platform SDKs for shipping one or more non‑trivial apps to respective app stores
• Expertise in cloud storage, deployment, and computing; we use AWS but are open to other platforms
• Can ship great quality products efficiently, following best practices (CI/CD, automated testing, version control)
• Strong fundamentals in Computer Science, knowing 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 Web Assembly (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…