Wikimedia Foundation
Technology
SoftwareEngineerIII,Editing
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“Software Engineer III, Editing at Wikimedia Foundation. Skills: Software engineering, Open source, Algorithms, Data structures. Improve Wikipedia product experience. Fix bugs”
What You'll Achieve.
Keep Wikipedia accurate; Keep Wikipedia up to date; Improve quality of information; Improve integrity of information
Industry & Context.
Solve technical problems; Investigate issues
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
2-5 years related professional experience, 2-5 years open-source software engineering experience, Object-oriented development experience, Experience with scripting language, Experience writing unit tests, Experience structuring work with version control, Aptitude in algorithms and data structures
Nice to Have
Experience building rich-text editor, Experience with large, legacy codebases, History of editing on Wikimedia projects, History of open-source contribution, Bachelor's degree in computer science, Bachelor's degree in mathematics, Equivalent experience to Bachelor's degree
What You'll Do.
Improve Wikipedia product experience
Implement new functionality
Iterate on new features
Write multilingual code
Write accessible code
Write performant code
Build on MediaWiki API ecosystem
Instrument components
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Collaboration with engineers; Collaboration with product managers; Collaboration with designers; Collaboration with other teams; Collaboration with community members; Online collaboration
Communication Scope
Written communication; Synchronous channels; Asynchronous channels
Full Job Description
Software Engineer III – Editing Team Summary The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to product 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 distributed environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting a worldwide top-ten website (over a half a billion pages accessed per day), and you get to do it at a place that believes we're all more successful when everyone has a good work-life balance. On the Editing Team, we support new and experienced volunteers working in 300+ languages with the tools they need to keep Wikipedia accurate and up to date. The team's main area of focus is the flagship VisualEditor, our industry-leading rich-text editing platform which we have been extending to serve new use cases (e. g. DiscussionTools to support on-wiki communication) and unlock new capabilities that lower the barriers people encounter when contributing to Wikipedia. The latest capability being Edit Check, an open-ended system designed to surface actionable pieces of feedback and suggestions that help volunteers improve the quality and integrity of the information Wikipedia offers. You are responsible for: Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality. Iterating on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, other teams, 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. Skills and experience: 2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience. Experience with object-oriented development using a scripting language
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