Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. 24-MAG LLC makes this remote consulting opportunity available through its professional-matching platform; the end client is not identified. The role focuses on building and scaling a cross-platform Electron desktop application, including real-time tracking, offline-first data pipelines, system integrations, performance, and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve production-grade desktop applications using Electron.js
- Build consistent application behaviour across macOS and Windows environments
- Design desktop systems for reliability, responsiveness, and minimal resource consumption
- Develop background processes and desktop functionality that operate unobtrusively
- Apply strong engineering judgement when balancing performance, functionality, and platform constraints
- Build real-time timekeeping and event-tracking systems with precise state management
- Develop system-level signal collection involving keyboard, mouse, application usage, and related activity data where appropriate
- Work with operating-system APIs, permissions, background processes, and system hooks
- Design integrations that remain reliable across different operating-system environments
- Apply strong privacy and efficiency considerations to activity-monitoring functionality
- Develop offline-first data pipelines with reliable background synchronisation
- Implement conflict-resolution strategies for distributed or intermittently connected environments
- Integrate desktop applications with backend services and internal APIs
- Support analytics, reporting, and downstream data workflows through reliable application infrastructure
- Design resilient data flows that preserve correctness across local and remote execution
- Improve runtime performance, memory efficiency, and fault tolerance
- Diagnose edge cases involving distributed systems, offline execution, and desktop environments
- Troubleshoot production issues and identify underlying technical causes
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend engineering teams to deliver user-facing functionality
- Contribute to reliable release, deployment, and application lifecycle practices
Skills
- 3+ years of professional experience building production-grade desktop applications with Electron.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript or TypeScript and Node.js
- Demonstrated experience designing cross-platform applications for macOS and Windows
- Hands-on experience with real-time tracking, event streams, telemetry, or activity-monitoring systems
- Familiarity with operating-system APIs for capturing user or system interactions
- Deep understanding of performance optimisation in desktop application environments
- Strong debugging skills and ability to reason through distributed, offline, and platform-specific edge cases
- Strong understanding of security and privacy considerations related to user activity data
- Strong communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
- Experience building productivity, monitoring, or telemetry-driven applications is advantageous
- Familiarity with native OS integrations, permissions, background processes, and system hooks is beneficial
- Experience with Electron auto-update systems, release management, or desktop deployment workflows is advantageous
Benefits
- Fully remote
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