Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Software Engineer to build and enhance a high-performance cross-platform desktop agent. The role focuses on real-time timekeeping, privacy-conscious signal collection, offline-first data pipelines, backend integrations, and collaboration across product, design, and backend teams.
Responsibilities
- Architect and evolve a cross-platform desktop agent using Electron.js, optimized for performance and minimal resource footprint
- Build real-time timekeeping systems with precise event tracking and background execution
- Design and implement system-level signal collection with strong privacy and efficiency guarantees
- Develop offline-first data pipelines with reliable background sync and conflict resolution
- Integrate with distributed backend services and internal APIs to enable analytics and reporting
- Continuously improve runtime performance, memory efficiency, and fault tolerance
- Collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to ship features that directly impact user productivity
Skills
- Strong relevant experience building production-grade desktop applications with Electron.js
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
- Experience designing cross-platform systems with consistent behavior
- Hands-on work with real-time tracking, event streams, or activity monitoring systems
- Familiarity with OS-level APIs for capturing user/system interactions
- Deep understanding of performance optimization in desktop environments
- Strong debugging skills and ability to reason about edge cases in distributed/offline systems
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