Staff/Senior Desktop Application Engineer - Nexthink - Remote - Global
Desktop Application Engineer
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Job Description
We are looking for a Staff or Senior Desktop Application Engineer to be part of the team designing, architecting, and implementing our AI-powered IT self-service chat agent — a native desktop application distributed to 20+ million endpoints worldwide. This client is the face of Nexthink’s AI platform, giving employees a seamless, responsive experience directly on their Windows and macOS devices. As a Senior Desktop Engineer, you will go beyond implementation: you will set technical direction for the client layer, influence cross-team design decisions, and serve as a trusted advisor to both engineering leadership and product. You’ll tackle problems of performance, reliability, and native OS integration while partnering with backend, infra, and security teams to ship a production-grade application at global scale. This is a high-impact, high-ownership role where you’ll make foundational architectural decisions about the client platform and help shape the desktop engineering practice at Nexthink. Responsibilities include defining and driving technical vision and architectural strategy for the desktop client application, leading design of a high-performance, native desktop application on Windows and macOS, partnering with product, backend, and AI/ML teams, providing technical leadership, architecting and delivering a reliable, secure application, championing observability and diagnostics, mentoring engineers, leading technical deep dives, and ensuring security and OS-level integration best practices.
Company Information
| Location | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Remote - Global | 28 |
| Remote - North America | 2 |
| Role type | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | 7 |
| Corporate Security Engineer | 5 |
| Sales Representative | 3 |
| Product Support Engineer | 1 |
| Senior Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| Professional Services Consultant | 1 |
| Total Rewards & Transformation | 1 |
| Product Security Engineer | 1 |
| Data Analyst / Engineer | 1 |
| Consultant | 1 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 1 |
| AI Researcher | 1 |
| Client Director | 1 |
| Engagement Manager | 1 |
| GTM Project Manager | 1 |
| Full Stack Developer | 1 |
| Human Resources Specialist | 1 |
| Search Engineer | 1 |
| Role level | Active listings |
|---|---|
| Mid-Level | 23 |
| Senior | 2 |
| Mid-level | 1 |
Nexthink appears in 30 indexed job postings in JobCrawls' Finland dataset since October 2023. In that historical index, the strongest location signals for this employer are Remote - Global and Remote - North America.
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Job Details
Responsibilities
- Define and drive technical vision and architectural strategy for the desktop client application.
- Lead design of a high-performance, native desktop application running on Windows and macOS at 20M+ endpoints.
- Partner with product, backend, and AI/ML teams to align the client experience with the broader AI platform.
- Provide technical leadership on client architecture, coding standards, and best practices for native desktop development.
- Architect and deliver a reliable, secure application covering the full distribution lifecycle: signing, packaging, installation, updates, and uninstallation.
- Champion observability, crash reporting, performance monitoring, and diagnostics across the client stack.
- Act as a mentor and multiplier, raising the technical bar and helping engineers grow.
- Lead technical deep dives, design reviews, and roadmap alignment discussions with leadership.
- Ensure security, compliance, and OS-level integration best practices are embedded in design from day one.
Requirements
- 7+ years of desktop application engineering experience, shipping native applications on Windows and macOS.
- Proven success designing and shipping client applications to large user bases, with a deep understanding of platform-specific constraints and behaviors.
- Strong proficiency in Rust and/or C++, with solid experience building cross-platform desktop applications; experience with Tauri is a strong plus.
- Deep knowledge of Windows and macOS OS APIs.
- Hands-on experience with the full application distribution lifecycle: code signing, packaging, auto-update mechanisms, and deployment at scale.
- Strong understanding of desktop application performance profiling, memory management, and crash diagnostics.
- Exceptional communication skills — able to influence cross-functional teams and leadership with clear technical direction.
- Track record of mentoring and elevating engineering teams.
Education Level
None required