Real-Time Desktop Apps Engineer (Electron + AI)

Skillsearch Limited; United States; Hybrid; USD 86,000 - 112,000; Full time

Job summary

Skillsearch Limited is seeking a Desktop Software Engineer to lead the development of high-performance cross-platform desktop applications using Electron, TypeScript and React. You will own desktop experiences with real-time AI-powered features, ensuring reliability across Windows and macOS within a fast-moving engineering team.

You’ll work on architecture, local data handling, real-time systems and seamless deployment, collaborating with backend and product teams to deliver responsive, scalable

Qualifications

• Proven professional software engineering experience.
• Experience developing and shipping production Electron applications.
• Experience building desktop software used in real-world environments.
• Track record delivering performant and reliable user-facing applications.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain cross-platform desktop applications using Electron.
• Develop scalable and responsive user interfaces.
• Ensure applications remain stable, reliable and performant across operating systems.
• Contribute to overall application architecture and technical direction.
• Integrate AI-powered capabilities through backend services and APIs.
• Support intelligent features such as conversational experiences, AI assistants, automated workflows, agent-driven functionality.
• Profile Electron applications and resolve performance bottlenecks.
• Improve startup times, memory usage and real-time responsiveness.

Skills

JavaScript

TypeScript

Electron

React

IPC

SQL

NoSQL

WebSockets

Performance debugging

Tools

SQLite

IndexedDB

Filesystem storage

Node.js

Job description

Skillsearch Limited is seeking a Desktop Software Engineer to lead the development of high-performance cross-platform desktop applications using Electron, TypeScript and React. You will own desktop experiences with real-time AI-powered features, ensuring reliability across Windows and macOS within a fast-moving engineering team.

You’ll work on architecture, local data handling, real-time systems and seamless deployment, collaborating with backend and product teams to deliver responsive, scalable