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Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Stony Brook, NY, USA

1 week, 4 days 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.
  • Define and enforce best practices for code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsiveness, cross-version compatibility, and maintainability.
  • Drive accessibility implementation and validation using Windows accessibility frameworks 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 to improve quality and reliability across releases.
  • Mentor other engineers and contribute to technical direction and architecture-level decisions.

Requirements

  • 3+ years of experience in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI or similar frameworks, C#, and XAML.
  • 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.
  • Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows, such as Microsoft UI Automation or similar.
  • 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 ability to collaborate across cross-functional teams 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 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 for 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

  • 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 used by millions of users.
  • Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture with shared decision-making.
  • Opportunities to mentor others and grow into technical leadership roles such as Tech Lead or Architect.
  • Flexibility, autonomy, and end-to-end ownership of feature delivery.
  • Purpose-driven mission focused on building reliable, accessible, user-centered software.
  • 100% distributed work environment with no office.

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