Responsibilities
- Drive the design, architecture, and implementation of native Windows desktop apps using Windows App SDK, WinUI or equivalent UI frameworks, with C#, XAML, and, when required, C++.
- Establish and uphold Windows desktop development best practices across the codebase, covering architecture, performance, memory footprint, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.
- Lead accessibility efforts by integrating and validating support for accessibility APIs such as Microsoft UI Automation, ensuring accessible controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen reader compatibility, and usable experiences for users with disabilities.
- Collaborate with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to influence feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the Windows platform's long-term roadmap.
- Own the full lifecycle of features from concept through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance, ensuring quality, reliability, and consistency across releases.
- Identify, diagnose, and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, or compatibility problems, and propose robust architectural or design solutions.
Requirements
- Minimum of 3 years in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI or similar, C#, XAML, with ideally additional experience in native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
- Strong understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed (.NET) and native code.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop software with emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Extensive experience with Windows accessibility APIs (such as Microsoft UI Automation) and a commitment to building accessible software.
- Solid software engineering fundamentals: object-oriented programming, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, and multi-threading or asynchronous programming as relevant.
- Experience leading technical design, mentoring engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate across cross-functional teams, and drive alignment.
- User-centric mindset focused on delivering polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.
Technologies
Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, C++, Win32/WinRT/COM, .NET, Microsoft UI Automation
Benefits
- A high-impact role: define architecture, shape the Windows product, and influence what millions of users see and experience.
- A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture where you are a builder and a decision-maker.
- Opportunities to lead, mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow toward broader technical leadership roles such as Tech Lead or Architect.
- Flexibility, autonomy, and ownership: solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
- A purpose-driven mission: building reliable, accessible, user-centered software that makes a real difference for people.
Mission
The mission of Speechify is to ensure reading is never a barrier to learning. More than 50 million people use Speechify's text-to-speech products to turn what they're reading, including PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites, into audio so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify's text-to-speech offerings include its iOS app, Android app, Mac app, Chrome extension, and Web app. Google named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple recognized Speechify with its 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work in a 100 percent distributed setting, with team members from Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and a range of startups and research programs.
