Software Engineer III - Content Transform Team

Software Engineer III Content Transform Team

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team reporting to engineering management. As a software engineer you will be responsible for engineering software that supports our product user experiences. In this role you will work in a fully-remote environment (with occasional travel for team department or organization events) where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a half a billion pages accessed per day and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance.

On the Content Transform team we work to support and evolve all things wikitext the markup language behind Wikipedia. We aim to make wikitext easier to write faster to parse and less error-prone for humans. We also strive to support editing and content analysis tools with structured representations. We also maintain the web services associated with content rendering and transformation.

You are responsible for:

• Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality in wikitext processing

• Iterating on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers product managers designers client teams and community members

• Writing PHP and JavaScript which supports hundreds of world languages

• Creating and maintaining internet APIs with server scripting languages

• Instrumenting components to monitor feature and quality characteristics

• Leveraging caching and persistence technologies

Skills and experience:

• 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

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

Additionally we'd love it if you have this:

• 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). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source PHP MySQL and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of extensions and skins and has a vibrant volunteer community.

• 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

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

About the Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that 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 freely. We host Wikipedia and 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 donations 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.

As an equal opportunity employer the Wikimedia Foundation values having a diverse workforce and continuously strives to maintain an inclusive and equitable workplace. We encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply. We do not discriminate against any person based upon their race traits historically associated with race religion color national origin sex pregnancy or related medical conditions parental status sexual orientation gender identity gender expression age status as a protected veteran status as an individual with a disability genetic information or any other legally protected characteristics.

The Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first organization with staff members including contractors based 40+ countries * . Salaries at the Wikimedia Foundation are set in a way that is competitive equitable and consistent with our values and culture. The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$88975  to US$139056 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.

*Please note that we are currently able to hire in the following countries: Australia Austria Bangladesh Belgium Brazil Canada Colombia Costa Rica Croatia Czech Republic Denmark Egypt Estonia Finland France Germany Ghana Greece India Indonesia Ireland Israel Italy Kenya Mexico Netherlands Nigeria Peru Poland Singapore South Africa Spain Sweden Switzerland Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States of America and Uruguay.  Our non-US employees are hired through a local third party Employer of Record (EOR).

We periodically review this list to streamline to ensure alignment with our hiring requirements.

All applicants can reach out to their recruiter to understand more about the specific pay range for their location during the interview process.

If you are a qualified applicant requiring assistance or an accommodation to complete any step of the application process due to a disability you may contact us at [email protected] or +1 (415) 839-6885.

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