About the job
At Speechify, we aim to eliminate the barriers that impede learning through innovative technology.
With over 50 million users benefiting from our text-to-speech solutions, we transform various reading materials—PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, and websites—into audio formats. This empowers our users to read faster, absorb more information, and retain knowledge effectively. Our suite of products includes applications for iOS, Android, Mac, a Chrome Extension, and a Web App. We are honored to have been recognized as the Chrome Extension of the Year by Google and awarded the 2025 Design Award for Inclusivity by Apple.
Our dedicated team of nearly 200 professionals operates in a fully distributed environment, with no centralized office. Our talent hails from leading tech companies such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, as well as esteemed academic institutions like Stanford, and successful startups including Stripe and Vercel.
- Lead the design and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI, C#, XAML, and occasionally C++.
- Establish and uphold best practices for Windows desktop development, ensuring optimal code architecture, performance, memory efficiency, UI responsiveness, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.
- Champion accessibility initiatives by integrating and validating support for accessibility APIs, ensuring compliance with UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader functionality, and overall usability for users with disabilities.
- Work collaboratively with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to influence feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and the strategic roadmap for the Windows platform.
- Take full ownership of features throughout their lifecycle: from conception and design to implementation, testing, release, and maintenance, ensuring high quality and consistency.
- Investigate, diagnose, and resolve intricate bugs, performance issues, memory leaks, and rendering challenges, proposing robust architectural or design solutions.

