Senior Software Engineer, Core Experiences
Wikimedia Foundation
WorldwideFully remoteContractSeniorInformation Technology
USD 56–87 an hourPosted 4 hours ago4h agoApply link checked 4 hours ago
Why we think you can apply
- Hiring model
- Open worldwide · the employer states no country restriction
- Work from
- Anywhere, the UAE included
Posted 4 hours ago · apply link checked 4 hours ago
About the role
Responsibilities
- Deliver medium complexity initiatives from technical discovery through delivery
- Create mobile Wikipedia product experiences for a global, multilingual audience across web and app surfaces
- Create RESTful APIs and scalable data pipelines to serve mobile and web client experiences
- Build software that is easy to test, observe, and debug
- Partner with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to shape pragmatic solutions
- Identify high-impact technical opportunities and risks and align the team on outcomes and capacity
- Comply with team standards in code review, technical design, testing, and documentation
Requirements
- Bachelor's and 5-10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building production web applications and services
- Strong professional experience with JavaScript/TypeScript, JavaScript frameworks such as Vue.js, and backend languages such as PHP
- Experience building responsive or mobile-first web experiences with attention to performance, accessibility, and usability
- Experience in designing and integrating with server-side APIs
- Experience delivering in a self-driven, lean environment
- Commitment to the Foundation's Mission and Values
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to existing native mobile apps
- Experience launching and maintaining native or cross-platform mobile applications
- Experience building mobile games or interactive mobile experiences
- Experience with data science, machine learning, and/or AI
- Familiarity with Wikipedia, wikitext, markdown editing, or content management systems
- Experience leveraging agentic coding to scale engineering teams
- History of open source contributions
- Experience working in a fully remote, distributed team
About the Company
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.
What we look for
- Bachelor's degree
- 5-10+ years professional experience building production web applications
- JavaScript/TypeScript
- Vue.js
- PHP
- Responsive or mobile-first web experience design
- Server-side API design and integration
JavaScriptTypeScriptRESTvue.jsPHP
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