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# Senior Data Engineer (12-months Fixed-Term Contract – Renewable) at Goodnotes

- **Company:** Goodnotes
- **Location:** Singapore
- **Posted:** 2026-07-27
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-20
- **Apply:** https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodnotes/jobs/6127461004

## Job description

Good Systems is the parent company behind Goodnotes, where millions of people capture and develop their ideas. Goodnotes is where we started, and it’s now the foundation for a growing family of products. By reimagining how we interact with information, we’re bringing together human creativity and the breakthrough capabilities of AI. We build products that help people turn good thinking into good work.

## 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 role

As a Senior Data Engineer on the Data Platform team, you'll help build the next generation of Goodnotes' data infrastructure, a modern, AI-native platform that enables a small team to operate at exceptional scale. Working alongside Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, and Product Engineers, you'll design the pipelines, models, and systems that power analytics, experimentation, AI and product decisions across Goodnotes.

You'll set the direction for the platform and how we build it: make the architecture calls, explain them, and bring engineers and stakeholders along without formal authority. You'll use AI to improve engineering productivity, automate repetitive work and keep the platform scalable, reliable and easy for others to use.

- This is a hybrid role based in our Singapore office. This position will initially be a 1-year fixed-term contract.

This is the role for you if you're excited to work on:

- Data pipeline engineering: Build reliable, scalable data pipelines and data models, with the testing, monitoring and lineage that keep them trustworthy.
- Cloud-native platform design: Design a modern data platform using technologies such as Snowflake, dbt, Iceberg, and ClickHouse on AWS.
- Real-time data systems: Design and build streaming pipelines and processing systems that power real-time analytics, event processing, and AI-driven products.
- Self-service analytics: Enable teams across Goodnotes to discover, understand and consume data independently.
- Leverage AI: Become a more effective engineer and continuously improve how the data platform is built, operated, and maintained.
- Leading through influence: Take a clear position on architecture and trade-offs, and get Product Engineers, Analytics Engineers and Data Scientists behind it.

The skills you will need to be successful:

- Significant experience as a senior or lead Data Engineer, including setting the technical direction for a data platform.
- Strong SQL skills and experience designing scalable data pipelines and data models.
- Experience designing and operating modern cloud-native data platforms on AWS.
- Experience building batch and streaming data platforms using technologies such as Kafka, Confluent, Apache Pulsar, or similar messaging systems.
- Strong understanding of data quality, testing, monitoring, observability, and operational excellence.
- You've changed a technical decision through influence rather than authority, and can explain how.
- A strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and a passion for building simple solutions to complex problems.

Preferred:

- Experience with dbt and modern analytics engineering practices.
- Experience with Snowflake or another modern cloud data warehouse.
- Experience with technologies such as ClickHouse, Apache Iceberg, or modern lakehouse architectures.
- Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity and build more intelligent, efficient, and scalable data platforms.

The interview process:

- Talent Intro Call: A conversation with our Talent Acquisition team to dive into your experience, what motivates you, and why you're interested in joining Goodnotes.
- Take Home Assignment: A project for you to complete at home that will be discussed in the next interview
- Role-Specific Assessment: A live session focused on the core technical or functional skills required for the role. This is your chance to show us how you tackle real-world challenges.
- AI Literacy: As an AI-first company, you'll meet with one of our AI champions to discuss your curiosity, understanding, and practical use of AI tools in your daily workflow.
- Hiring Manager Interview: A deeper dive into your professional background, your preferred ways of working, and the specific impact you'll have within the team.
- Values-Based Panel Interview: A conversation with 3 team members centered on our company values. We'll discuss past experiences to see how your approach aligns with our culture.

What's in it for you:

- Hybrid Flexible Working: We empower you to work in a way that fits your life, with a hybrid arrangement based from our Singapore office.
- Customized Growth & Wellness Budgets: We provide dedicated stipends for the things that keep you at your best, including noise-canceling headphones for deep focus, professional training, personal development, and health and wellness activities.
- Global Connectivity: While we embrace flexible work, we love seeing each other. We provide sponsored visits to our office locations to foster face-to-face collaboration.
- Company-Wide Offsite: Once a year, we gather the entire global team in person to celebrate our wins, align on our vision, and build lasting connections.
- Comprehensive Health Coverage: Your well-being is our priority. We offer premium medical insurance for you and your dependents to ensure peace of mind for your whole family.

Goodnotes is committed to fostering a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace. We welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences, making all employment decisions based strictly on merit, qualifications, and business needs.

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](https://www.goodnotes.com/recruitment-privacy-policy).

## About Goodnotes

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Goodnotes develops an intelligent digital note-taking and document management platform that blends handwriting, typing, and AI to help users capture, organize, and act on ideas.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Bootstrapped, profitable from day one, no disclosed external venture funding)
- **Headquarters**: London, United Kingdom (with additional offices in Hong Kong and Singapore)
- **Founded**: 2010
- **Founders**: Steven Chan

## Core Business
- Primary industry/industries: Productivity Software, EdTech, Artificial Intelligence
- Target customers: B2C (millions of individual users, including students and professionals) and B2B (schools, universities, enterprises)
- Mission or purpose statement: "We're building the best medium for human and AI collaboration — so everyone can do their best thinking, create more freely, and unlock their full potential."

## Products & Services
- **Goodnotes App (Core Platform)**: A digital note-taking application for iPad, iPhone, and Mac (and web/Android via browser) that supports handwriting, typing, document annotation, and PDF management. The platform is known for its AI-powered handwriting recognition, spellcheck, and Word Complete features.
- **Goodnotes Marketplace**: A digital storefront launched in 2023 offering digital planners, stickers, stationery, and templates created by designers and the community.
- **AI Handwriting Replication & AI Spellcheck/Word Complete**: Proprietary AI features built in-house, including a machine learning model that replicates handwriting styles and provides intelligent text corrections.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (privately held, bootstrapped, and profitable from inception)
- **Key Metric**: Over 24 million Monthly Active Users (MAU); over 1.8 billion notes created; rated 4.8/5 stars globally
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: No external venture investors (bootstrapped). Key partnerships include integration with Apple ecosystem (iPad, Apple Pencil) and educational institutions globally.
- **Growth Signals**: Scaled from a team of under 20 people (2019) to over 300 employees (2024); expanded to 190+ countries; launched Goodnotes Marketplace in 2023; actively investing in AI innovation and agent-driven engineering.

## Competitive Advantages
- **First-Mover Advantage & Brand Loyalty**: Launched in 2010 as one of the first high-quality handwriting apps for iPad, building a massive, loyal user base and a 4.8/5 star rating across millions of reviews.
- **Bootstrapped & Profitable**: Operates without VC pressure, allowing long-term product vision and sustainable growth without needing to chase short-term hypergrowth metrics.
- **Deep AI Integration**: Has invested heavily in proprietary AI (handwriting recognition, replication, spellcheck) that directly enhances core user experience—a moat that’s hard for generic note-taking apps to replicate.
- **Platform Stickiness**: The app is deeply integrated into users’ daily workflows for studying, notetaking, and document management, creating high switching costs.

## Strategic Focus
- **AI-First Product Development**: Embedding AI into every layer of the product, from agent-driven engineering to data-savvy product thinking and rapid-fire design. The company describes itself as building "the future of human-AI collaboration."
- **Scaling the Team & International Presence**: Growing headcount (300+ people), expanding offices in London, Hong Kong, and Singapore, and actively hiring across Product, Engineering, Marketing, and People teams.
- **Deepening B2B & Education Markets**: Working closely with schools and universities to tailor product improvements and expand institutional adoption.
- **Continuous Product Innovation**: Regularly releasing major updates (e.g., AI features, Marketplace) to evolve from a note-taking app into a broader productivity and thinking platform.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture & Values**: Strong emphasis on seven core values: Dream Big, Build Great Things, Operate Like an Owner, Win Like a Sports Team, Learn and Grow Fast, Share Our Passion, and Be User Obsessed. Values are actively used in performance reviews, peer recognition (Slack channels), and annual offsite awards.
- **Flexibility & Remote-First**: Over half the team is fully remote. Flexible working hours are standard, with a requirement that 4 hours per day overlap with London or Hong Kong business hours. Company is described as "remote-friendly" with a flexible work-from-home policy even for office-based staff.
- **Generous Compensation & Perks**: Competitive salary and equity, medical insurance from day one, monthly personal growth budget, sizable learning & development budget (for degrees, certificates, conferences), generous annual leave, compassionate leave, parental leave, sabbatical leave, and a monthly wellness budget.
- **Home Office Setup**: Provides a company-issued computer, tablet, stylus, and keyboard, plus a budget for home office furniture (desk, ergonomic chair, monitors, etc.).
- **Relocation Support**: Offers relocation support and visa sponsorship to London or Hong Kong, including a one-way flight ticket.
- **Annual Team Offsites**: The entire company gathers in person once a year (past locations include Hokkaido, Bali, Lisbon) for strategy workshops and team bonding.
- **AI & Innovation Culture**: Actively encourages employees to use AI in their work and in the hiring process. Hackathons are common, and employee passion projects (like the handwriting replication algorithm) often become product features.

## Sources
1. [goodnotes.com - About Us](https://goodnotes.com/about-us)
2. [goodnotes.com - Careers](https://www.goodnotes.com/careers)
3. [goodnotes.com - The Perks of Working at Goodnotes](https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/perks-of-working-at-goodnotes)
4. [goodnotes.com - Seven Company Values](https://www.goodnotes.com/blog/seven-goodnotes-company-values)
5. [job-boards.greenhouse.io - Goodnotes Jobs](https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/goodnotes)

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