Remote Electron.js Engineer — Desktop Productivity

Executive Staff Recruiters / ESR Healthcare; United States; Remote; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity compensation

Health insurance

401(k) with company match

Job summary

micro1 is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Electron.js to design a cross-platform time intelligence desktop app (MacOS + Windows) for a globally distributed workforce. You’ll work on performance, offline-first data pipelines, and real-time event tracking.

You will collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to ship features that enhance user productivity, ensure privacy and efficiency, and scale the desktop agent across platforms.

Qualifications

• 3+ years building production-grade desktop applications with Electron.js.
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js.
• Experience designing cross-platform systems (MacOS + Windows) 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.

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 (keyboard, mouse, app usage) 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

Electron.js

JavaScript/TypeScript

Cross-platform

Real-time tracking

Performance optimization

Debugging

Job description

micro1 is seeking a Software Engineer specializing in Electron.js to design a cross-platform time intelligence desktop app (MacOS + Windows) for a globally distributed workforce. You’ll work on performance, offline-first data pipelines, and real-time event tracking.

You will collaborate with product, design, and backend teams to ship features that enhance user productivity, ensure privacy and efficiency, and scale the desktop agent across platforms.