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Summary
About the Role
About You
- 3+ years in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, and XAML.
- Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed and native code.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications.
- Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals including OOP, design patterns, and multi-threading.
- Experience leading technical design and mentoring other engineers.
- Strong communication skills and a user-centric mindset.
- Experience with writing automated tests for UI.
- Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps.
- Experience with localization/globalization and accessibility for multiple regions.
- Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
- Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows and deployment strategies.
Benefits
- High-impact role defining architecture and shaping the future of Windows products.
- Collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture.
- Opportunities to lead and mentor others.
- Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility in problem-solving.
- Purpose-driven mission focused on building reliable and accessible software.
The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning. Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text to speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text to speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its App of the Day. Speechify also provides a voice over, voice cloning, and dubbing studio for businesses and creators and a text to speech API for developers. Through its products, Speechify is the largest provide of Speech AI in the world. Cliff Weitzman founded Speechify to overcome his own dyslexia. Growing up, Cliff’s dad would read him Harry Potter because he couldn't do it himself. Cliff’s dad was his hero. But without reading, Cliff couldn't become the person he wanted to be. So, he learned to code and created Speechify to read books to himself. Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Revolut, Stripe, and Bolt, and many founders of their own companies. Programming languages across Speechify include React, Typescript, NodeJS, Kotlin, Python, and Go. We’d love to meet you! Please apply here: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/speechify.