Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Crossing Hurdles is seeking a Software Engineer to build and enhance a high-performance cross-platform desktop agent. The role focuses on real-time timekeeping, privacy-conscious signal collection, offline-first data pipelines, backend integrations, and collaboration across product, design, and backend teams.

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 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

• Strong relevant experience building production-grade desktop applications with Electron.js
• Strong proficiency in JavaScript/TypeScript and Node.js
• Experience designing cross-platform systems 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

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