Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Osaka, Japan

1 hour, 33 minutes ago
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, compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating Windows accessibility APIs and usability features.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning and UI/UX architecture.
  • Own features end to end from conception through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • Identify and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, and compatibility problems.
  • Provide technical leadership through mentoring, code reviews, and architecture-level decision-making.
  • Contribute to the long-term roadmap and technical direction for the Windows platform.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, and XAML.
  • Ideally, additional experience with native Windows code such as C++, Win32, WinRT, or COM.
  • 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 Windows accessibility APIs such as Microsoft UI Automation, with a commitment to inclusive software.
  • 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 the ability to collaborate cross-functionally and drive consensus.
  • A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Preferred: experience with automated UI testing, including unit tests, integration tests, or UI automation tests.
  • Preferred: experience optimizing desktop app performance, including memory usage, startup time, rendering, high-DPI support, and responsiveness.
  • Preferred: experience with localization, globalization, right-to-left UI support, and internationalization.
  • Preferred: familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
  • Preferred: experience shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
  • Preferred: demonstrated ownership of feature areas or modules, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

Benefits

  • Work on a high-impact product used by millions of people.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture.
  • 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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