Software Engineer III, Editing

Summary

Join the Wikimedia Foundation's Editing Team as a Software Engineer III and contribute to the development and improvement of Wikipedia's VisualEditor, a rich-text editing platform. You will work collaboratively with engineers, product managers, designers, and community members to enhance user experience, implement new features, and fix bugs. This role involves writing multilingual, accessible, and performant code using JavaScript and PHP, building upon the MediaWiki API ecosystem, and instrumenting components for monitoring. The ideal candidate possesses 2-5 years of relevant experience, proficiency in object-oriented development, and strong written communication skills. The Wikimedia Foundation offers a remote-first work environment and a competitive salary.

Requirements

• 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

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

Preferred Qualifications

• 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 anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$ 88,975 to US$139,056  with multiple individualized factors, including cost of living in the location, being the determinants of the offered pay
• For applicants located outside of the US, the pay range will be adjusted to the country of hire
• We neither ask for nor take into consideration the salary history of applicants
• The compensation for a successful applicant will be based on their skills, experience and location