Head of Desktop Engineering

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Head of Desktop Engineering

Cyprus or Remote

CTO Office

We are looking for a Head of Desktop Engineering to take ownersip of some of the most widely used creative software in the world - MuseScore Studio and Audacity, two large, long-lived, open-source C++ desktop applications used by millions of musicians and audio creators.

Key responsibilities

Required experience

• 8+ years in C++ desktop product engineering, 2–3 of them leading engineers.

• Shipped cross-platform desktop software (Windows, macOS, Linux) to a large consumer install base.

• Able to run a build-vs-adopt engine evaluation and defend it at C-level; JUCE/Tracktion experience directly relevant.

• Large legacy codebases refactored under a live user base.

• Desktop distribution: installers, auto-update, signing and notarisation, licence enforcement, crash reporting.

• Plugin hosts (VST3/AU/LV2) desirable.

• Led a horizontal or guild where engineers report elsewhere day-to-day.

• Hands-on with agentic coding stacks applied to C++.

• Open-source experience desirable.

• Muse leadership match.

• Real-time audio depth is desirable: driver modes (WASAPI shared vs exclusive, ASIO, CoreAudio, ALSA/PipeWire), buffer sizing, round-trip latency measurement, lock-free callbacks, thread priority.

Benefits