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Senior Backend Engineer (Typescript)
Goodnotes
- London, England, United Kingdom
- London, England, United Kingdom
About
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 : Be visionary, strategic, and open to innovation Build great things — Work in service of our users, always improving and pushing higher Take ownership — 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
You will be part of a distributed team across Europe and Asia, with shared time for collaborative activities such as planning, retros, stand-ups, and brainstorming sessions. The team is building account and subscription services for tens of millions of active users. Additionally, we also build the infrastructure that allows us doing experiments without releasing our iOS application. The team has a volunteer on-call schedule that may require working out of standard hours. You will use a broad and modern tech stack with: Programming Language: Most of our team's services are written in TypeScript. We also have services written in Kotlin. 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: Build mission-critical services used by tens of millions of users. Architect and design scalable solutions that are easy to maintain to allow development of exciting features and support more users. Implement elegant solutions with clean code. Enable communication with the Mobile, Web frontend 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 testing. Share your knowledge and experience with the rest of the team The skills you will need to be successful
Proficient in TypeScript and some familiarity with at least one JVM programming language (e.g. Kotlin, Java, Scala). Expertise in cloud storage, deployment and computing. We use AWS but we're open to other platform experience. Deep understanding of computer science fundamentals, you enjoy solving algo and data structure puzzles. You have led the development of complex systems from inception to million of users. Robust software engineering practices, testing and automation have no secrets for you. Excellent problem solving and story-telling skills. A love of software craftsmanship, you have a strong desire of self improvement through side projects and sharing. Good sense on the best tools for any task. Open contributors and diversity
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 wants 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: 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. Onsite technical Interview: In one of our office locations (London, Singapore, Hong Kong) to assess technical skills. 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. By submitting your application, you acknowledge that you have read and understood our Candidate Privacy Notice, which provides important information about the data we collect during the application process. You can find it here.
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