Software Engineer III

Responsibilities

• Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality
• Iterating on new features through collaboration with engineers, product managers, designers, and community members
• Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant code using JavaScript and PHP
• Building on top of the MediaWiki API ecosystem
• Instrumenting components to monitor feature behavior and quality characteristics

Requirements

• 2–5 years of professional or open-source software engineering experience
• Experience with object-oriented development using JavaScript, PHP, Python, or Ruby
• Experience writing unit tests and using version control
• Strong written communication skills for online collaboration
• Strong aptitude in algorithms and data structures

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience building a rich-text editor
• Experience working with large, legacy codebases
• History of editing on Wikimedia projects
• History of open-source contribution
• Bachelor's degree in computer science, mathematics, or equivalent experience

About the Company

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.