Senior Software Engineer - Growth at Wikimedia Foundation

You are responsible for:

• Improving the Wikipedia new contributor experience by building new functionality primarily in the GrowthExperiments extension and fixing bugs for code that our team maintains
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other teams on shared projects
• Writing multilingual and accessible software using JavaScript, PHP and CSS
• Building on top of existing APIs in our ecosystem and writing new ones when needed, working with other engineers to reduce technical debt
• Instrumenting components to monitor user behavior and performance characteristics

Skills and experience:

• 5+ years related professional experience in frontend and backend programming
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components using well-documented and readable code
• Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural trade-offs

Qualities that are important to us:

• 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
• Interest in mentoring, or teaching and sharing about technical knowledge

Additionally, we'd love it if you have this:

• Experience working with internationally distributed teams or organizations
• Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience working with projects or communities in languages other than English
• Experience working with large, legacy codebases
• Bachelor's in a relevant field or equivalent experience