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Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - San Francisco, CA, USA

2 months, 2 weeks ago
United States
Full-time
Senior
Software Engineer
Software Development
C# C++ CI/CD .NET
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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
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Description

  • Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, and C++ when needed.
  • Define and enforce best practices for Windows desktop development across architecture, performance, memory usage, responsiveness, compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating support for Windows accessibility APIs and ensuring usability for users with disabilities.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows roadmap.
  • Own features through the full lifecycle from conception and design to 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 other engineers, conduct code reviews, and make architecture-level decisions.
  • Contribute to long-term product quality by proposing robust architectural and design solutions.

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 strong reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
  • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar.
  • Excellent software engineering fundamentals, including OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multithreading or asynchronous programming where relevant.
  • 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 building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Experience with automated UI testing, performance optimization, localization/globalization, telemetry, CI/CD workflows, or release pipelines is preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $140,000-$200,000 USD per year, plus bonus and stock, depending on experience.
  • High-impact role with direct influence on the Windows product and millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with opportunities to help shape technical direction.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into broader technical leadership roles.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and end-to-end ownership of features and problem-solving.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on building reliable, accessible, user-centered software.

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