Posted at: 17 March
Senior Backend Engineer (Kotlin)
Company
Goodnotes
Goodnotes is a Taiwan-based B2C digital note-taking app specializing in enhancing productivity and learning experiences for students and professionals globally.
Remote Hiring Policy:
Goodnotes embraces a flexible work environment, allowing team members to work remotely from various locations. The company has an international team, with members based in multiple countries across Europe and Asia.
Job Type
Full-time
Allowed Applicant Locations
Norway, Europe, Asia
Job Description
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
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
The team:
At Goodnotes, we are driven by a mission: to transform the classroom into a dynamic and interactive environment where students and teachers seamlessly connect through our innovative product. You will play a pivotal role in bringing this vision to life. You will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams within Goodnotes, leveraging your expertise to build and refine a new product that enhances the educational experience for users worldwide. Join us in creating a platform that not only facilitates learning but also fosters meaningful interactions and connections in the digital classroom.
Where you fit:
This is the role for you, if you’re enthusiastic to do the following:
Design and build scalable, easy-to-maintain distributed systems allowing the development of exciting features
Implement elegant solutions with clean, maintainable, well-documented, thoroughly-tested code
Enable communication across multiple mobile, web frontend, and backend services
Improve the development practices through research, automation, documentation, and testing
Share your knowledge and experience of best practices with the rest of the team
Continuously improve yourself like you improve the team’s best practices
Solve complex problems with the right tool for the task
We’re excited about:
You’re not required to have experience with any of the following, but we’ll be excited if you do:
Using software architecture to minimise data dependencies, corner cases, and race conditions in distributed/client-server systems
Implementing system observability and metrics
Turning user-reported issues into precise tasks and eventual solutions — even better if you’ve experience creating preemptive debugging tools
Non-relational and distributed databases
Cloud storage, deployment, and computing (We use AWS, but we’re still excited if you have other platform experience)
Even if you don’t meet all the criteria listed above, we would still love to hear from you! Goodnotes places a lot of value on learning and development and will support your growth if needed.
Our tech stack:
Programming Language: Our team’s code is written in Kotlin, but other teams use Python & Typescript (mastery of one JVM-based language is essential)
Ktor, Koin, JUnit, Mockito
CockroachDB and PostgreSQL
Datadog/OpenTracing
k8s, docker
GitHub and GitHub Actions
Redis
WebRTC
SpiceDB
Ory Kratos
The interview process:
An introductory call with someone from our talent acquisition team. They want to hear more about your background, what you are looking for, and why you’d like to join Goodnotes
A timed, online coding test on Hackerrank
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
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 supporting you throughout your career at Goodnotes
A panel interview asking behavioural questions round out company values
What’s in it for you:
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
Flexible working hours and location
Medical insurance for you and your dependents