Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - St. Petersburg, FL, USA

2 hours, 32 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 implementation and validation across Windows accessibility APIs, keyboard navigation, focus management, and screen-reader support.
  • Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders on feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows roadmap.
  • Own features end to end from conception through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance.
  • 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.
  • Help shape long-term product quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.

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 interoperability 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.
  • 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 collaborate cross-functionally and drive consensus.
  • A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences.
  • Preferred experience writing automated UI tests, including unit, integration, and UI automation tests.
  • Preferred experience with desktop app performance optimization, including memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, and responsiveness under load.
  • 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 software.
  • Preferred ability to own feature areas or modules long term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.

Benefits

  • United States base salary range of $140,000 to $200,000 per year.
  • Bonus opportunity.
  • Stock compensation.
  • Fully distributed, 100% remote work environment with no office.
  • High-impact role with direct influence over product architecture and user experience.
  • Collaborative, flat engineering culture with opportunities to lead and mentor.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and end-to-end ownership of work.
  • Mission-driven work focused on accessibility and helping users learn without reading barriers.

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