Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Madrid, Spain

1 hour, 4 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 across the Windows platform, including support for accessibility APIs, keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen readers.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and roadmap decisions.
  • Own features end-to-end from conception and design through implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, and compatibility problems.
  • Lead technical design discussions, mentor engineers, conduct code reviews, and make architecture-level decisions.
  • Help shape long-term technical direction and the future of the Windows product.

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 strongly preferred.
  • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interoperability between managed (.NET) and native code.
  • Proven experience 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 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 the ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive consensus.
  • A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Experience with automated UI testing, performance optimization, localization/globalization, telemetry, CI/CD workflows, or release pipelines is preferred.

Benefits

  • High-impact role with direct influence on Speechify’s Windows product and millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with decision-making ownership.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into broader technical leadership roles.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility to own features end-to-end.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on reliable, accessible, user-centered software.

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