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Goodnotes · 2 months ago

Senior Software Engineer, Cross-platform Toolchain

Asia Timezone

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level

Goodnotes is a company focused on transforming digital note-taking through innovative technology. They are seeking a Senior Software Engineer specializing in Compilers to enhance Swift and LLVM support for their cross-platform applications, particularly for Wasm and Android.

AppsComputerConsumerSoftware

Responsibilities

Be a leading part of the state-of-the-art development of Swift and Wasm support, helping not only Goodnotes engineers but also the worldwide advancement of web technology and multiplatform development

Scope and spearhead technical projects across the Swift codebase, like implementing multithreading support for Swift on Wasm and better JNI support for Swift on Android

Collaborate with the LLVM community and our contacts at Apple to better understand how we can improve performance and reliability for Swift on Wasm and Android (and Swift generally)

Work with our product infrastructure team to improve tooling and the developer environment for Swift

Engage with the Swift and LLVM community on forums, helping fix bugs and contributing to future proposals

Give back to the open-source community. We believe in upstreaming our work to benefit the community that we benefit greatly from

Qualification

LLVMSwiftWasmAndroidTechnical leadershipCommunication skillsProblem-solvingCollaboration

Required

You have experience with the LLVM (or other compiler, eg. GCC) codebase, ideally with the Swift source code

You have experience tech leading critical projects or initiatives within your team and organization

You've worked on large, complex codebases

You understand how to improve systems to make them easier to understand, debug, and maintain

You're excited about elegant, maintainable, and easy-to-use build tooling and configuration

You're pragmatic and can see the bigger picture; you're able to reason about prioritization and scope

You are biased to action. We like learning as quickly as possible, so we embrace failing fast to refine our code, systems, and processes rapidly

You have great communication skills, being capable of presenting plans to the broader engineering team, clearly stating risks and blockers and remediation and mitigation plans

Preferred

Some familiarity with Wasm and Android is preferred but not required

Bonus points for maintaining open-source projects, understanding and fulfilling the needs not only of delivering according to specifications, but also providing the tooling, build systems and processes and guidelines to address external issues and improvement proposals