Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Bakersfield, CA, USA

1 hour, 1 minute ago
Full-time
Senior
Software Development
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

Description

  • Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications.
  • Define and enforce best practices for Windows desktop code quality, performance, memory usage, responsiveness, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating Windows accessibility APIs and supporting screen readers, keyboard navigation, and focus management.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning and Windows UI/UX architecture.
  • Own features end-to-end from conception through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, and compatibility problems.
  • Propose robust architectural or design solutions for platform and product challenges.
  • Mentor other engineers, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architecture-level decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI or similar, C#, and XAML.
  • Experience with native Windows code such as C++, Win32, WinRT, or COM is preferred.
  • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interoperability between managed .NET code and native code.
  • Proven experience designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications.
  • Strong experience with Windows accessibility APIs such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multi-threaded or asynchronous programming.
  • Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, reviewing code, and making architecture-level decisions.
  • Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive consensus.
  • User-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Experience with UI automated testing, performance optimization, localization/globalization, telemetry, CI/CD workflows, or release pipelines is preferred.

Benefits

  • United States base salary range of $140,000 to $200,000 per year.
  • Bonus eligibility.
  • Stock compensation.
  • 100% distributed, remote-first work environment with no office.
  • High-impact role with ownership over architecture and the Windows product experience.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into broader technical leadership roles.
  • Flexible autonomy and end-to-end ownership of features.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on building accessible, user-centered software.

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