SUMMARY

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to product 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 distributed environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting a worldwide top-ten website (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.
On the Editing Team, we support new and experienced volunteers working in 300+ languages with the tools they need to keep Wikipedia accurate and up to date. The team’s main area of focus is the flagship VisualEditor, our industry-leading rich-text editing platform which we have been extending to serve new use cases (e.g. DiscussionTools to support on-wiki communication) and unlock new capabilities that lower the barriers people encounter when contributing to Wikipedia. The latest capability being Edit Check, an open-ended system designed to surface actionable pieces of feedback and suggestions that help volunteers improve the quality and integrity of the information Wikipedia offers.

SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE:

• 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.

• 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.