Remote
Remote
Senior
Full Time
💰$116,633 - $181,243
remoteopen_sourcesoftware_engineerseniorfull_time
Requirements
- •5+ years of related professional experience in software engineering
- •Experience with one or more of: parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, compilers, or bringing a language feature through a product cycle
- •Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from problem definition through implementation and delivery, including making and communicating architectural decisions and navigating ambiguity
- •Experience designing and maintaining reliable, performant software components used by other teams, products, or large numbers of users
- •Strong engineering practices: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and balancing architectural tradeoffs
- •Ability to work effectively across team and organizational boundaries, identify and resolve technical dependencies, and bring projects to completion with limited direction
- •Experience mentoring other engineers and raising the technical quality of a team, through code reviews, design discussions, documentation, or direct mentorship
What You'll Do
- •Designing and delivering improvements to Wikipedia's wikitext processing infrastructure, balancing user experience, performance, backwards compatibility, and maintainability
- •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
Nice to Have
- •Familiarity with the HTML5 spec and DOM manipulation
- •Expertise in Node.js and related technologies
- •Familiarity with Wikipedia/wikitext/markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
- •A history of open source contribution
- •Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, software engineering, or other STEM field (or equivalent certification)
Benefits
- •Competitive and equitable salary
- •Remote-first work environment
- •Work-life balance
- •Opportunities for team, department, or organization events
About Wikimedia
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
San Francisco, CA, US
500 - 1000
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