高级软件工程师，Windows/桌面应用 - 布里斯班，澳大利亚
Senior Software Engineer, Windows/Desktop Applications - Brisbane, Australia
使命
Speechify的使命是确保阅读永远不会成为学习的障碍。
超过5000万人使用Speechify的文字转语音产品，将他们阅读的任何内容——PDF、书籍、Google文档、新闻文章、网站——转换为音频，这样他们就能更快地阅读、阅读更多内容并记得更多。Speechify的文字转语音阅读产品包括其iOS应用、Android应用、Mac应用、Chrome扩展和网页应用。最近，谷歌将Speechify评为年度Chrome扩展，苹果将Speechify评为2025年包容性设计奖得主。
如今，全球近200人以100%远程的方式在Speechify工作——Speechify没有办公室。这些人包括前端和后端工程师、人工智能研究科学家，以及来自亚马逊、微软和谷歌的人，还有来自斯坦福等顶尖博士项目、快速增长的初创公司如Stripe、Vercel、Bolt的成员，以及许多自己的公司创始人。
你将负责
- 使用Windows App SDK、WinUI（或相关UI框架）、C#、XAML，以及在需要时使用C++，主导原生Windows桌面应用程序的设计、架构和开发。
- 在整个代码库中定义并执行Windows桌面开发的最佳实践：代码架构、性能、内存使用、响应式UI、跨版本兼容性（Windows 10/11+）和可维护性。
- 推动无障碍工作：集成并验证对无障碍API（如Microsoft UI Automation或其他相关Windows无障碍框架）的支持，确保UI控件、焦点管理、键盘导航、屏幕阅读器支持以及对残障用户的可用性。
- 与产品设计师、用户体验研究人员、QA和其他利益相关者紧密合作，塑造功能规划、UI/UX架构和Windows平台的长期路线图。
- 对功能的全生命周期负责：从构思 → 设计 → 实现 → 测试 → 发布 → 维护。确保发布中的质量和一致性。
- 识别、诊断和解决复杂错误、性能瓶颈、内存泄漏、渲染问题或兼容性问题，并提出稳健的架构或设计方案。
理想的候选人应具备以下条件：
要求：
- 3年以上使用Windows App SDK、WinUI（或类似工具）、C#、XAML进行Windows桌面应用开发的经验——最好还具备原生Windows代码（C++、Win32/WinRT/COM）的相关经验。
- 对Windows应用架构有深入理解，包括互操作性机制。
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Mission
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 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
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 Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies
What You’ll Do
- Lead the design, architecture, and development of native Windows desktop applications using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or related UI frameworks), C#, XAML, and — when needed — C++.
- Define and enforce best-practices for Windows desktop development across the codebase: code architecture, performance, memory usage, responsive UI, cross-version compatibility (Windows 10/11+), and maintainability.
- Drive accessibility efforts: integrate and validate support for accessibility APIs (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or other relevant Windows accessibility frameworks), ensure UI controls, focus management, keyboard navigation, screen-reader support, and usability for users with disabilities.
- Collaborate closely with product designers, UX researchers, QA, and other stakeholders to shape feature planning, UI/UX architecture, and long-term roadmap for the Windows platform.
- Take ownership of full lifecycle of features: conception → design → implementation → testing → release → maintenance. Ensure 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.
An ideal candidate should have
Required:
- 3+ in Windows desktop application development using Windows App SDK, WinUI (or similar), C#, XAML — and ideally additional experience with native Windows code (C++, Win32/WinRT/COM).
- Deep understanding of Windows application architecture, including interop between managed code (.NET) and native code.
- Proven track record of designing, building, and shipping production-quality desktop applications, with an emphasis on reliability, performance, scalability, and maintainability.
- Strong experience with accessibility APIs on Windows (e.g. Microsoft UI Automation or similar), and a dedication to building accessible and inclusive software.
- Excellent software engineering fundamentals: OOP, design patterns, data structures, algorithms, memory management, multi-threading or asynchronous programming (where relevant).
- Experience leading technical design, mentoring other engineers, conducting code reviews, and making architecture-level decisions.
- Strong communication skills; ability to articulate tradeoffs, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and drive consensus.
- A user-centric mindset: focus on building polished, intuitive, and accessible experiences for end users.
Preferred / Bonus:
- Experience with writing automated tests for UI — unit tests, integration tests, UI automation tests; familiarity with relevant testing frameworks.
- Experience with performance optimization for desktop apps (memory usage, startup time, rendering performance, high-DPI support, responsiveness under load).
- Experience with localization/globalization, right-to-left UI support, internationalization, accessibility for multiple regions.
- Familiarity with telemetry, analytics, crash reporting, logging, and error monitoring in desktop applications.
- Previous experience in shaping CI/CD workflows, release pipelines, and deployment strategies for desktop applications.
- Demonstrated ability to take ownership of feature areas or modules and drive them long-term, including maintenance, refactoring, and technical debt management.
What we offer
- A high-impact role: you will define architecture, shape the future of our Windows product, and directly influence what millions of users see and experience.
- A collaborative, flat-structure engineering culture — you are not just a coder, but a builder and a decision-maker.
- Opportunities to lead — mentor others, steer technical direction, and grow into broader technical leadership (e.g. Tech Lead, Architect).
- Flexibility, autonomy, and responsibility: you define how to solve problems, own features end-to-end, and contribute to long-term product vision.
- A purpose-driven mission: building software that’s reliable, accessible, and user-centered — making a real difference for people.
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Originally posted on Himalayas