Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Plano, TX, USA

1 hour, 12 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 Windows desktop code quality, performance, memory usage, compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating Windows accessibility APIs and improving keyboard, focus, and screen-reader support.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning and UI/UX architecture.
  • Own features through the full 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 for long-term platform health.
  • Mentor other engineers and help steer technical direction across the Windows platform.

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 ideal.
  • 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 with strong reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Strong experience with Windows accessibility APIs such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals, including object-oriented programming, 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 with the ability to explain tradeoffs, collaborate cross-functionally, and drive consensus.
  • User-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Preferred: experience writing automated UI tests, including unit, integration, or UI automation tests.
  • Preferred: experience optimizing desktop app performance, including startup time, rendering, responsiveness, high-DPI support, and memory usage.
  • Preferred: experience with localization, globalization, right-to-left UI support, and internationalization.
  • Preferred: familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring.
  • Preferred: experience shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop apps.

Benefits

  • Competitive U.S.-based salary of $140,000 to $200,000 per year, plus bonus and stock depending on experience.
  • High-impact role with the opportunity to influence a product used by millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with meaningful ownership.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into broader technical leadership roles.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility in how you solve problems and own features end to end.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on reliable, accessible, user-centered software.
  • Fully distributed work environment with no office.

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