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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Speechify does not discriminate on the basis of race, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, age, or other legally protected status.

Why us? 

Insurify is one of the America’s fastest-growing MIT FinTech startups and has been recognized as one of Inc. 5,000’s fastest-growing private companies in America in 2025, 2024, 2023, 2022 and 2021, Forbes Fintech 50 List for 2023, 2022, and 2021, Forbes Next Billion Dollar Startups of 2022 global and Top 100 InsurTech company. We’re changing the way millions of people compare, buy and manage insurance with artificial intelligence, technology, and superior product design.

Our company vision is to be recognized as the preeminent and most trusted digital agent for insurance comparison, purchase, and management. Our team is critical to achieving our vision and fostering the right culture is essential to our team’s success.

How you will make an impact:

• Lead cross-functional projects from ideation to execution with a high degree of independence and maximum impact
• Solve high velocity, high impact analytics problems
• Scale the business using data
• Work on a mix of analytics engineering, business analytics, and data science using SQL and Python
• Build scalable data infrastructure that solves real problems

Sample projects:

• Operate and improve a data product to serve evolving business needs
• Refactor data system to scale with increased volume and new requirements
• Build new data pipelines to support tracking of new business initiatives 
• Champion usage of new tools and systems to improve team processes
• Improve the prediction accuracy of our customer acquisition machine-learning bidding algorithms
• Perform customer segmentation analysis to discover where to improve Insurify products
• Improve alerting systems to help us triage data quality issues at scale

Key Skills + Background

• 3-4 years of experience, record of impact and success in a similar role (Analytics or Data Engineering, Data Science, Data Analysis)
• Expertise in and real-world experience with SQL
• Exposure to data warehousing and ETL concepts 
• Strong quantitative and programming skills - Python (preferred) R, Rust, Go, Ruby, C++ also good
• Bachelors / Masters in Mathematics, Engineering, CS, Economics, or other technical major
• Quick learning ability and a drive suitable for the startup hustle.
• A positive team player with a solid work ethic who is ready to pivot between projects, learn from mistakes, always move forward, and help build the next big thing in insurance!

Benefits

• Employee stock options
• 25 days annual leave
• Enhanced private medical, dental and vision insurance plans
• Yearly wellbeing budget or Multisport card
• Personal budget for learning and books
• Employee Assistance Program and other wellbeing perks
• Office kitchen and fun area with snacks and beverages
• Regular social events
• Friendly office culture
• Hybrid office