Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a
Software Engineer

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a software engineer to join the Trust and Safety Product team. The role involves building features to keep communities safe from abuse, harassment, vandalism, and harmful or illicit content. The work environment is fully-remote and geographically distributed. The job requires 3+ years of related professional experience in software engineering roles, with an emphasis on backend development.

Requirements

• 3+ years of related professional or volunteering experience in software engineering roles, including frontend and backend development, with an emphasis on backend
• Experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript). Most of our work is in PHP and JavaScript

Responsibilities

• Developing, testing, and deploying new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by administrators and staff
• Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant user interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, VueJS, and CSS
• Documenting your contributions to our codebase in our technical documentation and our features’ documentation
• Contributing to projects that require handling sensitive data and private information, complying with privacy and security regulations
• Providing support in abuse investigations on our platform, helping identify sources and causes of incidents, and proposing ideas to mitigate their impact

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with MediaWiki development or as a contributor to Wikimedia projects
• Experience with legacy codebases and/or experience in free/open source software development experience
• Experience with online community moderation, vandalism prevention and other Trust and Safety concepts and practices