Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join their Editing Team, reporting to product engineering management. In this role, you will be responsible for improving the Wikipedia product experience by engineering software that supports user experiences, collaborating with others, and writing accessible and performant code.
Responsibilities
- Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality
- Iterating on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, other teams, and community members
- Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant code using Javascript and PHP
- Building on top of the MediaWiki API ecosystem
- Instrumenting components to monitor feature behavior and quality characteristics
Skills
- 2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience
- Experience with object-oriented development using a scripting language (such as JavaScript, PHP, Python or Ruby). Most of our work is in JavaScript, PHP and CSS
- Focused software engineering: you have experience of writing unit tests, and of structuring your work with version control
- Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets
- A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access
- An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels
- A strong aptitude in algorithms and data structures is essential!
- A desire to write well-documented and maintainable code
- The willingness to participate in technical discussions, proposing solutions to technical challenges, participating in code reviews and receiving feedback
- An eagerness and curiosity to solve technical problems, trying things out and investigating issues, and supporting the work of others
- Experience building a rich-text editor
- Experience working with large, legacy codebases
- A history of editing on Wikimedia projects
- A history of open-source contribution
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or mathematics, or equivalent experience
Benefits
- The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries
- Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive, equitable, and consistent with our values and culture.
- For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire.
- Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR) and must have current work authorization in their location.
- If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability, you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.
- More information at U.S. Benefits & Perks: https://wikimediafoundation.org/about/jobs/#section-12
Company Overview
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia. It was founded in 2003, and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, with a workforce of 501-1000 employees. Its website is http://wikimediafoundation.org.