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

1 week, 1 day 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 using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, and sometimes C++.
  • Define and enforce best practices for Windows desktop development, including code architecture, performance, memory usage, UI responsiveness, compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating support for Windows accessibility APIs and ensuring keyboard, focus, and screen-reader usability.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows roadmap.
  • Own features end to end from conception through design, 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, and contribute to architecture-level decisions.
  • Maintain quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.
  • Propose robust architectural or design solutions to improve the desktop experience.

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 code and native code.
  • Proven experience designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications with an emphasis 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 multithreading 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.
  • User-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible end-user experiences.
  • Experience with automated UI testing, performance optimization, localization/internationalization, telemetry, crash reporting, or CI/CD workflows is preferred.

Benefits

  • Salary range of $140,000 to $200,000 USD per year, plus bonus and stock, depending on experience.
  • Opportunity to define architecture and shape the future of a product used by millions of people.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with room to influence technical decisions.
  • Opportunity 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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