Senior Electron/TypeScript Desktop Engineer

Jobtailor

Boston (MA)

On-site

USD 140,000 - 180,000

Full time

2 days ago

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Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior desktop software engineer to lead cross-platform development using Electron, TypeScript, and React. You will own architecture, implement rich UI, and ensure secure, enterprise-grade deployment across Windows, macOS, and Linux.

You will collaborate with product and cloud teams to balance desktop and cloud capabilities, work from our Boston office portion of the week, and drive CI/CD, testing, and performance improvements in a fast-paced startup environment.

Qualifications

5+ years of professional software engineering experience, including production desktop applications.
Deep, hands on experience developing desktop applications in Electron, including main and renderer process architecture, IPC, preload scripts, and the security model.
Strong TypeScript and modern JavaScript, with fluency in React and the surrounding frontend tooling.
Experience with desktop packaging, code signing, notarization, and auto update (electron builder, Electron Forge, or equivalent).
Ability to debug across process and language boundaries: renderer, main, native modules, and the network.

Responsibilities

Guide the architecture, development, and release of the cross-platform desktop application for Windows, macOS, and Linux from a single codebase.
Build rich, responsive TypeScript and React interfaces, including interactive 3D visualization of multi-robot workcells.
Maintain the boundary between the desktop client and cloud backend, including authentication, job submission, streaming progress, and synchronization of large workcell and simulation artifacts.
Keep the application fast and accurate during slow, intermittent, or absent network connectivity using a local-first data model and reconciliation on reconnect.
Manage multi-platform CI builds, code signing and notarization, and auto-update delivery.
Integrate native and C++ components, including geometry, kinematics, and robot vendor SDKs, into the desktop runtime.
Harden the application for enterprise deployment through context isolation, sandboxing, CSP, secure credential storage, and IT-friendly installers.
Instrument the client with crash reporting and telemetry and use the data to improve performance and reliability.
Partner with product, design, robotics, and cloud engineers to determine desktop versus cloud functionality.
Help determine product and technical priorities while contributing to development in a fast-moving technology company.