Software Engineer II at Wikimedia Foundation

About the job

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Software Engineer to join the Technical Engagement group within the Technology Department. You'll work remotely with a full-time distributed team, with members spread between Europe and North America, and need to overlap (UTC-4 to UTC+2) working hours. Some examples of the type of work you'll be doing include helping develop a community-authored catalog of Wikimedia tools, built by and for the Wikimedia technical community.

You are responsible for:

• Contributing to a team developing new features, improvements and upgrades to the Toolhub Project

• Partnering with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, testing and evaluation of potential technical solutions

• Helping to identify, implement, and follow best practices in engineering processes across the team

• Ensuring positive and constructive discussions with the community and the Foundation

• Working and communicating effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones

• Working with the team's Product Manager to scope and plan the technical work

• Triaging, diagnosing, and fixing reported bugs

Skills and Experience:

• Education and/or experience with Object-Oriented development using Python and Javascript

• Front-end web application development skills

• Comfortable working and thriving within a Linux ecosystem

• Openness to working with a diverse and geographically distributed team

• Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online

• BS in Computer Science or a related field, or 1 year software development experience

• Motivation, passion and desire to learn new skills and technology and grow into valued contributor on our team

Qualities that are important to us:

• You share our values, appreciate our code of conduct, support our team norms, and work in accordance with all three

• Strong English language skills and ability to work independently, as an effective part of a globally distributed team

• Support of our users (volunteer and staff developers) using our service offerings

• Passionate about the value of learning and growing together

Additionally, we'd love it if you have:

• Experience with collaborative open source communities

• Code samples which you can show us

• Familiarity with a relational database technology, preferably MySQL/MariaDB

• Familiarity with web protocols and standards such as HTML, CSS, HTTP, and REST

• Experience contributing to open source projects

• Experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects

• Experience using the Django framework

• Experience using Vue.js, React, or a similar reactive DOM javascript framework

The Wikimedia Foundation is...
 

• the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.