| Location | San Francisco, CA |
About Town
Were an applied AI company building a powerful assistant that makes it easy for anyone to create and use software in their everyday work. Town starts from who you are - it builds a persistent model of you (your voice, judgment, relationships, priorities) and does real work on your behalf across every tool you use: email, calendar, docs, Slack, CRM. It doesnt wait to be prompted. It observes, learns, and acts.
We most recently raised a $55M Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, with participation from Forerunner Ventures and continued support from First Round Capital, Alt Capital, and Conviction - plus angels including Adam DAngelo, Soleio Cuervo, and Immad Akhund.
About the role
Town is most powerful when its ambient - always there, aware of what youre working on, one keystroke away. The native macOS app is how that happens. Were looking for a Desktop Engineer to own Towns macOS client: a fast, deeply-integrated, always-on app that lives in your menu bar, understands the context around you, and acts the moment you need it.
Youll own the native client end to end - architecture, OS integration, performance, and the release pipeline - and set the craft bar for what a Town desktop experience feels like. The bar is someone who has shipped a real Mac app that people loved to use, and sweats the details that make native software feel effortless.
What youll do
Build and own Towns native macOS app in Swift, SwiftUI, and AppKit - architecture, features, and polish.
Go deep on the OS: menu-bar and background agents, global shortcuts, notifications, EventKit, and the Accessibility APIs that let Town understand and act across other apps.
Make an always-on client thats genuinely fast and light - low memory, low battery, no jank.
Own the release pipeline: code signing, notarization, sandboxing/entitlements, crash reporting, and seamless auto-update.
Handle sensitive user data on-device with the security and privacy it deserves, in partnership with our security work.
Work closely with the backend and AI teams to bring Towns agent to the desktop natively.
Set the craft and performance bar for the desktop experience - and lay the groundwork for future platforms.
You might thrive here if you...
Have extensive experience building native macOS (and/or iOS) applications, with depth in Swift.
Are fluent in both AppKit and SwiftUI and know when to reach for each.
Have worked below the UI layer: OS-level APIs, background processes, IPC/XPC, notifications, accessibility.
Care about performance and polish
Have shipped and owned a Mac app end to end, including signing, notarization, and updates.
Want to own a product surface from zero and move at startup speed doing it.
Location
In-person in San Franciscos Financial District, five days a week. Everyone is here to do their best work and make this product a success.