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Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Austin, TX, USA

6 days, 6 hours ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
C# C++ CI/CD .NET
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Speechify

Speechify

Speechify is a top-rated text to speech AI app with voice cloning and dubbing features, serving over 10 million users including students and professionals.

Internet Software & Services
51-250
Founded 2017
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Description

  • Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, and C++ when needed.
  • Define and enforce best practices for Windows desktop development across architecture, performance, memory usage, responsiveness, cross-version compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating Windows accessibility APIs and ensuring keyboard navigation, focus management, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows roadmap.
  • Own features through the full lifecycle from conception and design through implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • Diagnose and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, and compatibility problems.
  • Propose robust architectural or design solutions for product and platform challenges.
  • Mentor other engineers, conduct code reviews, and help drive technical direction and architecture decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI or similar frameworks, C#, and XAML.
  • Additional experience with native Windows code such as C++, Win32, WinRT, or COM is ideally required.
  • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interoperability between managed .NET code and native code.
  • Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications with a focus on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows, such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar frameworks.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multithreading or asynchronous programming.
  • Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, performing code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive consensus.
  • A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible end-user experiences.
  • Preferred experience with automated UI testing, including unit tests, integration tests, and UI automation tests.
  • Preferred experience optimizing desktop app performance, including memory usage, startup time, rendering, high-DPI support, and responsiveness under load.
  • Preferred experience with localization, globalization, right-to-left UI support, and internationalization.
  • Preferred familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring for desktop applications.
  • Preferred experience shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop software.
  • Preferred ability to own feature areas or modules long term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.
  • Include links to a portfolio and LinkedIn when applying.

Benefits

  • United States base salary of $140,000 to $200,000 per year.
  • Bonus eligibility.
  • Stock compensation.
  • 100% distributed, remote-first work environment with no office.
  • Opportunity for high impact on a product used by millions of people.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with autonomy and ownership.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into broader technical leadership roles.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on accessibility and inclusive software.

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