Software Engineer III, Content Transform Team - Remote

Overview

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to engineering management. As a software engineer, you will be responsible for engineering software that supports our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a fully-remote environment (with occasional travel for team, department, or organization events), where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a half a billion pages accessed per day, and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

In Short

• Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality in wikitext processing
• Iterating on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, client teams, and community members
• Writing PHP and JavaScript which supports hundreds of world languages
• Creating and maintaining internet APIs with server scripting languages
• Instrumenting components to monitor feature and quality characteristics
• Leveraging caching and persistence technologies

Requirements

• 2–5 years related professional experience in software engineering
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance
• Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs

Benefits

• Work in a fully-remote environment
• Opportunity to contribute to open source projects
• Support for work-life balance