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Speechify is a text-to-speech platform used by over 50 million people to convert PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites into audio. The company was named Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and received Apple's 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity. With ~200 employees globally in a fully distributed setting, Speechify is building accessible reading technology.
You will lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, and C++ as needed. Your responsibilities include defining and enforcing best practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase—covering code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.
A key focus area is accessibility: you'll integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (Microsoft UI Automation and related frameworks), ensure proper UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities. You'll collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the long-term Windows platform roadmap.
You'll own the full lifecycle of features from conception through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance, ensuring quality, reliability, and consistency. You'll identify and resolve complex bugs, performance bottlenecks, memory leaks, rendering issues, and compatibility problems, proposing robust architectural solutions.
Required qualifications include 3+ years of Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, and XAML, with ideally additional native Windows experience (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM). You need deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed and native code. You should have a proven track record shipping production-quality desktop applications emphasizing reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability. Strong experience with Windows accessibility APIs and dedication to inclusive software is essential. You'll need excellent software engineering fundamentals (OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading), experience leading technical design and mentoring engineers, and strong communication skills. A user-centric mindset focused on polished, intuitive, accessible experiences is critical.
Bonus qualifications include experience with automated UI testing, performance optimization for desktop apps, localization/globalization, telemetry and analytics, CI/CD workflows for desktop applications, and demonstrated ability to own feature areas long-term.
