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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 accessibility-first reading tools across iOS, Android, Mac, Chrome, and Web.
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—covering code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability. You will drive accessibility efforts by integrating and validating support for Windows accessibility APIs, ensuring 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 own the full lifecycle of features from conception through design, implementation, testing, release, and maintenance, ensuring quality 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 with Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, and XAML; deep understanding of Windows application architecture and interop between managed and native code; proven track record shipping production-quality desktop applications; strong experience with Windows accessibility APIs; excellent software engineering fundamentals; experience leading technical design and mentoring engineers; and strong cross-functional communication skills. Preferred experience includes automated UI testing, performance optimization, localization/internationalization, telemetry and crash reporting, CI/CD workflows for desktop apps, and long-term ownership of feature areas.
