Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform Team
About the role
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).
On the Content Platform 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.
In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment. Preferred timezone for this candidate will be GMT-4 to GMT+2.
You are responsible for:
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
Skills and experience:
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
Experience designing and maintaining reliable, performant software components used by other teams, products, or large numbers of users
Strong engineering practices
Ability to work effectively across team and organizational boundaries
Experience mentoring other engineers
About the Wikimedia Foundation: The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA.
The anticipated annual pay range of this position for applicants based within the United States is US$116,633 to US$181,243.
Minimum requirements
- 5+ years professional software engineering experience with parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, or compilers
- Proven ability to lead complex technical projects from definition to delivery
- Experience designing reliable, high-performance software components and mentoring engineers
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