Software Engineer III, Content Transform Team

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Requirements:

• 2–5 years related professional experience in software engineering.
• Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance.
• Focused software engineering: enjoyment of writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs.
• Desire to contribute to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access.
• Strong communication skills in both synchronous and asynchronous channels.
• Familiarity with HTML5 spec and DOM manipulation.
• Expertise in Node.js and related technologies.
• Familiarity with Wikipedia/wikitext/markdown editing or content management systems.
• Experience with parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, compilers, or product cycles.
• Open source contribution history.
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification).

Responsibilities:

• Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality in wikitext processing.
• 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.