Software Engineer, Desktop
Spectraforce
Seattle, Washington
5 days ago
Job Description
Job Title: Software Engineer, Desktop
100% Remote
Full-Time Role
You will own how this system behaves on desktop environments. Your work focuses on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior in production desktop applications.
Focus
Ideal Experiences
Tech Stack
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $130000.00/Yearly - $140000.00/Yearly.
100% Remote
Full-Time Role
You will own how this system behaves on desktop environments. Your work focuses on reliability, performance, and real-time behavior in production desktop applications.
Focus
- Build and maintain cross-platform desktop applications using Electron.
- Design responsive and scalable UIs for real-time collaboration.
- Implement desktop-specific functionality including file system access, native notifications, auto-updates, and deep linking.
- Integrate AI-powered features (chat, agents, AI assistance) via backend APIs.
- Optimize startup time, memory usage, and runtime performance.
- Profile and reduce Electron overhead.
- Manage large local state and message history efficiently.
- Ensure smooth real-time updates (messages, typing indicators, presence).
- Maintain stability across macOS and Windows environments.
Ideal Experiences
- Proven software engineering experience.
- Hands-on experience building production Electron applications.
- Strong proficiency in JavaScript and TypeScript.
- Experience with React or similar UI frameworks.
- Solid understanding of the desktop application lifecycle.
- Experience with IPC communication.
- Experience working with local storage (SQLite, IndexedDB, filesystem).
- Experience with WebSockets or other real-time transport mechanisms.
- Strong debugging and performance profiling skills.
- Familiarity with native OS behaviors on macOS or Windows.
Tech Stack
- Electron
- Node.js
- Typescript
- SQl & noSQL
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At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws.This position's pay range is $130000.00/Yearly - $140000.00/Yearly.