Senior Engineer, PC Apps

Date: Apr 3, 2026

Location: Dublin, IE

Company: Dolby Laboratories, Inc.

 

Join the leader in entertainment innovation and help us design the future. At Dolby, science meets art, and high tech means more than computer code. As a member of the Dolby team, you’ll see and hear the results of your work everywhere, from movie theaters to smartphones. We continue to revolutionize how people create, deliver, and enjoy entertainment worldwide. To do that, we need the absolute best talent. We’re big enough to give you all the resources you need, and small enough so you can make a real difference and earn recognition for your work. We offer a collegial culture, challenging projects, and excellent compensation and benefits, not to mention a Flex Work approach that is truly flexible to support where, when, and how you do your best work.

 

 

The Role

For Dolby’s client-side applications, you will play a key role in ensuring the quality, stability, and technical excellence of consumer-facing software delivered at scale.  

Your primary focus will initially be on applications within Dolby’s PC portfolio, while also having opportunities to contribute to other client applications across platforms as the portfolio and business needs evolve.  

As a Senior Software Engineer, you own the design and delivery of complex features or subsystems, make independent technical decisions, and actively mentor other engineers. This is a hands-on senior individual contributor role, focused on long-term technical ownership. 

 

 

What we offer  

  • Work on a portfolio of client-side applications, including consumer facing products used by millions of users worldwide.  

  • A collaborative engineering environment that values technical ownership, clarity, and longterm maintainability.  

  • Modern development workflows, including automation and CI/CD.  

  • Opportunities to grow through deep technical ownership, mentoring, and senior level technical leadership.  

  • Flexibility to apply your skills across different applications as products, platforms, and technologies evolve.  

 

 

What you will do  

  • Spend the majority of your time designing, implementing, and reviewing production quality code.  

  • Own and lead the technical design and implementation of complex features or sub-systems across client applications.  

  • Take end-to-end ownership of assigned technical areas, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and longterm support.  

  • Make independent technical decisions while balancing quality, performance, reliability, and delivery.  

  • Build and maintain automated tests at multiple levels to ensure confidence in changes and system stability.  

  • Contribute to CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows to support predictable, high quality delivery.  

  • Collaborate closely with QA, product, design, and other engineering teams.  

  • Provide hands-on mentoring through code reviews, pairing, and technical discussions.  

  • Contribute to raising team-wide engineering standards and a strong engineering culture.  

 

 

What you bring  

Required  

  • Strong professional experience in software development, with a proven track record of building and maintaining production quality applications.  

  • Hands-on experience with C# and modern object oriented design, including ownership of complex features or sub-systems over time.  

  • Familiarity with Universal Windows Platform (UWP). 

  • Experience building Windows desktop or platform-level applications.   

  • Understanding of C++, with the ability to read, debug, or collaborate around native components when needed.  

  • Experience owning software end-to-end, including design, implementation, testing, deployment, and longterm support.  

  • Ability to work independently, make informed technical decisions, and balance quality, performance, and delivery trade-offs.  

  • Experience collaborating effectively with QA, product, and design partners in a cross-functional engineering environment.  

  • Clear communication skills and the ability to mentor other engineers through code reviews and day-to-day collaboration.  

 

Nice to have  

  • Interest in modern Windows application development and platform evolution, including WinUI and Windows SDK based approaches.  

  • Experience working on applications or systems that evolve over time, including architectural or platform transitions.  

 


 

 

 

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