Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Lima, Peru

54 minutes 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 code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsiveness, compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating Windows accessibility APIs and ensuring strong keyboard, focus, and screen-reader support.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and stakeholders on feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows roadmap.
  • 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.
  • Mentor other engineers, conduct code reviews, and contribute to architecture-level decisions.
  • Support long-term ownership of feature areas through maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI or similar, C#, and XAML.
  • Additional experience with native Windows code such as C++, Win32, WinRT, or COM is ideally preferred.
  • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed .NET code and native code.
  • Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multi-threading or asynchronous programming.
  • Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, 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 automation, unit, or integration testing for desktop applications is a plus.
  • Experience with desktop performance optimization, including memory usage, startup time, rendering, high-DPI support, and responsiveness under load, is a plus.
  • Experience with localization, globalization, right-to-left UI support, and internationalization is a plus.
  • Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring is a plus.
  • Experience shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications is a plus.

Benefits

  • High-impact role with direct influence on the Windows product used by millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with room to contribute as a builder and decision-maker.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into technical leadership roles such as Tech Lead or Architect.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility to own features end to end.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on reliable, accessible, user-centered software.

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