Software Engineer III, Editing
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Wikimedia FoundationSoftware Engineering
US States: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, District of Columbia*, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico*, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. Countries: Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Germany, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Italy, Kenya*, Mexico, Morocco, Netherlands, Poland, Singapore*, South Africa, Spain, Switzerland and the United Kingdom.Full-TimeSenior
Salary95,164 - 148,729 USD per year
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Job Details
- Experience
- 2–5 years
- Required Skills
- PHPJavascriptAlgorithmsData StructuresUnit Testing
Requirements
- 2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience.
- Experience with object-oriented development using a scripting language (such as JavaScript, PHP, Python or Ruby).
- Focused software engineering: experience of writing unit tests, and of structuring your work with version control.
- Strong written communication skills.
- Strong aptitude in algorithms and data structures.
- Desire to write well-documented and maintainable code.
- Willingness to participate in technical discussions and code reviews.
- Experience building a rich-text editor (preferred).
- Experience working with large, legacy codebases (preferred).
- History of editing on Wikimedia projects (preferred).
Responsibilities
- 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.
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