Senior Software Engineer, Cross-platform Toolchain

Senior Software Engineer, Cross-platform Toolchain At Goodnotes, we believe every individual holds untapped potential waiting to be unleashed. By reimagining how we interact with information, we merge human creativity with the breakthrough capabilities of AI to create the best medium for human and AI collaboration. 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: After our huge success on iOS, we are finally bringing our product to Android, Web & Windows platforms. You will be part of a cross‑platform engineering team that ensures top‑of‑the‑market quality beyond iOS devices. Our international squad spans 6 countries across Europe and Asia, and thanks to asynchronous work culture, time differences do not impact your work‑life balance. Synchronous collaboration occurs during overlap hours through weekly planning sessions, retrospectives and technical excellence meetings. About The Role As a Compiler Engineer, you will work on improving Wasm & Android support for Swift and implementing new Swift features that benefit Goodnotes and the wider Swift community. What you will do Lead state‑of‑the‑art development of Swift and Wasm support, contributing to global web technology and multiplatform development. Scope and spearhead technical projects across the Swift codebase, such as multithreading support for Swift on Wasm and enhanced JNI support for Swift on Android. Collaborate with the LLVM community and our contacts at Apple to improve performance and reliability for Swift on Wasm and Android. Partner with the product infrastructure team to improve tooling and the developer environment for Swift. Engage with the Swift and LLVM community on forums, fix bugs and contribute to future proposals. Give back to the open‑source community and upstream our work to benefit the broader ecosystem. Required skills and experience Experience with LLVM (or a similar compiler such as GCC), ideally with the Swift source code. Experience tech‑leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization. Worked on large, complex codebases and able to improve systems for easier maintenance. Passion for elegant, maintainable build tooling and configuration. Pragmatic with a big‑picture perspective, able to prioritize and scope effectively. Bias to action and a learning mindset that embraces rapid iteration. Familiarity with Wasm and Android is a plus, but not required. Bonus points for maintaining open‑source projects and contributing to external proposals. Excellent communication skills and ability to present plans, risks, blockers, and mitigation to a broader engineering team. Interview Process Introductory call with talent acquisition to discuss background and motivation. 1‑hour live coding interview focused on algorithms and data structures. 1‑hour live interview on fixing performance issues, giving you insight into Goodnotes engineering culture. 1‑hour call with the hiring manager to explore day‑to‑day management, growth, and career development. 1‑hour call with 2‑3 stakeholders you will work closely with. Benefits Meaningful equity in a profitable tech‑startup. Budget for noise‑cancelling headphones, home office setup, professional training, and health & wellness. Sponsored trips 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. Onboarding Timeline After 1 month you will... Onboard onto our team and codebase with an onboarding buddy. Attend onboarding presentations on the company, product, codebase, and culture. Become familiar with Swift, our Wasm & Android toolchain, and roadmap. Ship a few bug fixes and small improvements across our codebase and tooling. Pair program with several team members. Regularly post product feedback in the #xplatform‑bugs channel. After 3 months you will... Be familiar with Wasm & Android architecture and suggest ways to ease product engineers’ work. Be comfortable with our Wasm & Android toolchain, Swift bindings, and how the Swift compiler works on Wasm & Android. Deploy several tickets to improve Swift language features and developer tooling. Participate in weekly engineering discussions about architecture, code review practices, code style, and more. Engage in infrastructure discussions around observability, performance regression monitoring, and updater refinement. After 6 months you will... Interview candidates and lead projects from conception to production launch. Mentor and pair‑program newer engineers, helping them spin up on the codebase. 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. Seniority level Mid‑Senior level Employment type Full‑time Job function Engineering and Information Technology Software Development Industry Referrals increase your chances of interviewing at Goodnotes by 2x Get notified about new Senior Software Engineer jobs in Singapore, Singapore . #J-18808-Ljbffr