Senior Front End Engineer - UI Toolbar Team

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.

What you will do:

• Design and implement elegant, high-performance user interfaces for Goodnotes’ toolbar and core interaction components.

• Collaborate closely with product managers and designers

• Take ownership of complex UI components and features from concept through release

• Contribute ideas and solutions that improve the user experience and overall product quality.

Minimum qualifications:

• Extensive experience building native iOS or macOS user interfaces in Swift or modern web interfaces with React and TypeScript.

• Good grasp of computer science fundamentals, data structures, and performance implications of your code.

• Proven ability to create polished, production-ready UI components with great attention to detail.

• 5+ years of experience working on complex, user-facing applications.

• Maker at heart with a track record of shipping high-quality, maintainable code in collaborative teams.

• Excellent communication skills and ability to work effectively with designers and product managers.

Preferred qualifications:

• Experience building UIs in both native iOS and React applications.

• Experience developing APIs for shared architectures.

• Strong sense of product and design, with the ability to meaningfully contribute to user experience decisions.

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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