Software Engineer III

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Content Transform team as a Software Engineer III and contribute to improving Wikipedia's user experience. Working fully remotely (with occasional travel), you'll collaborate with a team to enhance wikitext processing, implement new features, and maintain web services. You'll write PHP and JavaScript code, create APIs, and leverage caching technologies. This role requires 2-5 years of software engineering experience and a focus on writing high-quality, testable code. The Wikimedia Foundation values a diverse workforce and offers competitive salaries and benefits.

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
• 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
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)

Responsibilities

• Improve the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality in wikitext processing
• Iterate on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, client teams, and community members
• Write PHP and JavaScript which supports hundreds of world languages
• Create and maintain internet APIs with server scripting languages
• Instrument components to monitor feature and quality characteristics
• Leverage caching and persistence technologies

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with the HTML5 spec and DOM manipulation
• Expertise in Node.js and related technologies (and some experience in GIS, OSM)
• Familiarity with Wikipedia/wikitext/markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience with one of: parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, compilers, or bringing a language feature through a product cycle
• A history of open source contribution

Benefits

• Fully remote work environment (with occasional travel)
• Competitive salaries