Software Engineer III, Editing

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join their Editing Team, responsible for engineering software that enhances user experiences on Wikipedia. The role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to improve the product experience, implementing new functionalities, and writing code that supports multilingual and accessible contributions.

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

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
• 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