Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Milan, Italy

52 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, UI responsiveness, cross-version compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating support for Windows accessibility APIs and inclusive UI behaviors.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning and Windows platform roadmap.
  • Own the full feature lifecycle 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.
  • Propose robust architectural and design solutions to improve reliability and product quality.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical direction and architecture decisions.

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 required.
  • Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed .NET code and native code.
  • Proven experience designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications.
  • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows, such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar frameworks.
  • Strong software engineering fundamentals, including OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multi-threading or asynchronous programming.
  • Experience leading technical design, conducting code reviews, mentoring engineers, and making architecture-level decisions.
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to articulate tradeoffs and collaborate cross-functionally.
  • A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Preferred experience with automated UI testing, performance optimization, localization and right-to-left UI support, telemetry and crash reporting, and CI/CD or release pipelines for desktop apps.

Benefits

  • High-impact role with direct influence on the Windows product and millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture.
  • Opportunities to lead, mentor, 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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