Software Engineer - Android

Come build the premier mobile Wikipedia experience! The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an Android Software Engineer to join our team reporting to the Mobile Apps Engineering Manager. You will work closely with the rest of our small collaborative group to iterate on new ideas for the Wikipedia Android app. In this role you will create new features fix bugs and define the future of Wikipedia on mobile devices.

Each day millions of people use the open source Wikipedia app in over three hundred languages. Help us thoughtfully craft user experiences that empower and delight our users as they read and contribute to the world’s largest resource for free knowledge.

You are responsible for:

• Writing clean concise code in Kotlin

• Working with other engineers through discussions code review and more

• Collaborating with designers product managers and other engineers to iterate on new features

• Ensuring the quality of the app through thoughtful code architecture decisions and automated testing

• Triage issues reported by our users and debug track or resolve them

Skills and Experience:

• At least 1 year of professional Android development experience in Kotlin. (Our Android engineers are excited to share knowledge and tips they’ve picked up over the years - and also look forward to learning from you!)

• At least one app in Google Play Store that you’ve contributed to. (We’d love to see what you’ve been working on.)

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills (Our team is remote but we still enjoy close collaboration!)

Qualities that are important to us:

• A desire to learn and discover - about both Android development and our broader technology stack about what the root cause of an obscure bug is about how the Wikipedia communities operate and more.

• Constantly improving your craft in pursuit of creating the best possible user experiences and solving complex problems

• Proactively finding and reporting potential bugs or user experience issues for discussion with the team

• We are a global organization with flexible work schedules but we’re also collaborative. To ensure there are enough opportunities to communicate this role needs at least four hours of your work day to occur between 14:00 UTC and 22:00 UTC.

Additionally we’d love it if you have:

• At least 2 years of experience in software development

• Familiarity with modern best practices for Android app architecture

• Familiarity with Material 3 Google’s open-source design system and its implementation.

• Written unit and UI tests

• Built web services or APIs for use in mobile apps

• Built frontend web applications using JavaScript HTML and CSS

• Experience collaborating with a globally distributed team

• A history of open source contributions

• Contributed to Wikipedia or other free knowledge projects

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$85925 to US$134289 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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