Senior Software Engineer, Backend

About GoodNotes

GoodNotes for iOS and Mac lets you create beautiful handwritten digital notes. You can organize and annotate your favorite PDF's, images and more.

Position

GoodNotes was created from our founder's frustration of taking readable and reusable notes on his first iPad. We have since grown to millions of happy users and have been featured on Apple's marketing materials. Our engineering team members are all full stack, Pi-shaped, and most importantly product minded.

We have always been an iOS application since we started 8 years ago. We are now ready to make our application available in other platforms. So we are looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to join our first web engineering team. You would be responsible for creating the backend infrastructure to support our new business initiatives such as cloud storage, collaboration and cross platform deployment. You would be working close with our mobile and product teams on redefining productivity applications for the new era of computing.

Your qualification

• Excellent problem solving skills
• A love of software craftsmanship
• A strong desire of self improvement through side projects and sharing
• Good taste as a maker
• Built projects you are proud of, big plus if they are side projects
• Good sense on the best tools for any task
• Led web product development from inception to million of users
• Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals
• Production experience building and scaling reliable and safe distributed system
• Strong understandings on system design, data structures and API design
• Strong software engineering best practices
• Experience with Operational Transformation and Conflict-Free Replicated Data Types
• Mastery in at least two programming language
• We don't expect you to hold a degree as we value experience over qualifications.

What we offer

We offer competitive compensation and meaningful equity along with a chance to make significant contribution to a product people already love. We take care of you and your loved ones with medical insurance and flexible working hours including two optional work-from-home days! One of our best company traditions is annual off-site.