Senior Desktop Engineer (Electron)

Location: Remote; applicants from any country are welcome if located within approximately ±4 hours of CET.

Company

hirify.global creates and operates consumer products across the health, education, and entertainment industries.

What you will do

• Own the Electron architecture across main, renderer, and helper processes, including IPC, context isolation, and process lifecycle.
• Build transparent, frameless, always-on-top overlays, global shortcuts, tray functionality, and low-latency desktop interactions across multiple displays and DPI settings.
• Design the TypeScript platform abstraction and develop native macOS and Windows modules in Swift and C++.
• Implement real-time system and microphone audio capture, application-context integrations, and resilient recovery from device and driver failures.
• Own code signing, notarization, permissions, CI release pipelines, auto-update, staged rollout, rollback, crash reporting, and production telemetry.
• Set desktop engineering standards and address performance, security, reliability, and platform-compatibility issues.

Requirements

• 6+ years of software engineering experience, including production-grade TypeScript and Node.
• 3+ years building and shipping Electron applications to real users.
• Hands-on macOS development with Swift and/or Objective-C, AppKit, and a system-level framework such as Core Audio, AVFoundation, ScreenCaptureKit, or the Accessibility API.
• Experience with native Node addons or out-of-process native helpers, multi-process architecture, IPC, and user-machine debugging.
• Experience with macOS code signing, notarization, entitlements, and the TCC permission model.
• Working knowledge of Windows desktop APIs, Authenticode signing, SmartScreen, and antivirus reputation.

Nice to have

• Experience with real-time audio pipelines, including buffering, resampling, mixing, or speech-to-text streaming.
• Experience signing from CI with hardware-backed certificates and building antivirus or SmartScreen reputation.
• Experience with Squirrel, electron-updater, Sparkle, staged rollouts, Crashpad, Sentry, or native crash symbolication.
• Experience shipping a consumer desktop product at meaningful scale.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote work with collaboration during the CET time zone.
• Unlimited paid time off and paid national holidays.
• Company-provided MacBook for employees who need one.
• Flexible independent contractor agreement.
• Fast-paced environment focused on ownership, ambitious goals, and professional growth.

Hiring process

• Application review typically takes 3–5 days.
• Recruiter screening lasting 40 minutes.
• Technical interview lasting 60 minutes, followed by a 40-minute final interview.