- Location
- Singapore
- Workplace
- Hybrid
- Type
- Contract
- Department
- Insights
- Seniority
- Senior
- Source
- Greenhouse
Description
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 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 help shape both the platform and how we build it, leveraging AI to improve engineering productivity, automate repetitive work and create a data platform that is 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 that power analytics, experimentation, and AI-driven products.
- 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.
- Data quality and reliability: Improve data reliability through testing, monitoring, observability, lineage, and automation.
- 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.
- Cross-functional partnership: Partner with Product Engineers, Analytics Engineers, Data Scientists, and business stakeholders to create trusted, high-quality datasets.
The skills you will need to be successful:
- Significant experience as a Data Engineer building production-grade data platforms.
- 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.
- Excellent collaboration and communication skills, with the ability to work across engineering, product, and data teams.
- A strong sense of ownership, curiosity, and a passion for building simple solutions to complex problems.
- Familiarity with dbt, Snowflake, ClickHouse, Apache Iceberg, or modern lakehouse architectures is a plus.
- Experience applying AI to improve engineering productivity and build more intelligent, scalable data platforms is a plus.
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, we'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.
