Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform Team
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Based in BrazilFull-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Required Skills
- Node.jsPHPJavascriptSoftware ArchitectureUnit Testing
Requirements
- 5+ years of relevant professional software engineering experience, with a track record of delivering production software at meaningful scale.
- Experience with one or more areas such as parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, compilers, or taking language features through a complete product lifecycle.
- Demonstrated ability to independently lead complex technical projects, make architectural decisions, communicate trade-offs, and deliver outcomes with limited direction.
- Experience designing and maintaining reliable, high-performance software components used by other teams, products, or large user populations.
- Strong software engineering practices, including automated testing, code review, security awareness, and thoughtful architectural decision-making.
- Strong ability to work across organizational and team boundaries, identify technical dependencies, resolve blockers, and bring projects to completion.
- Experience mentoring engineers and helping improve team-wide technical quality through reviews, design discussions, documentation, or direct mentorship.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to work effectively in both synchronous and asynchronous environments.
- Self-motivated and comfortable navigating ambiguity while maintaining ownership and momentum.
- Familiarity with HTML5 specifications and DOM manipulation is a plus.
- Expertise with Node.js and related technologies is advantageous.
- Familiarity with wikitext, Markdown editing, content management systems, or technologies such as MediaWiki, Drupal, or WordPress is desirable.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver improvements to large-scale wikitext processing infrastructure, balancing user experience, performance, backwards compatibility, and long-term maintainability.
- Own complex technical projects from problem definition through architecture, implementation, testing, and production delivery.
- Collaborate closely with engineers, product managers, designers, client teams, and community members to iterate on features and resolve technical challenges.
- Develop and maintain PHP and JavaScript software supporting content experiences across hundreds of languages.
- Design, implement, and maintain reliable internet-facing APIs using appropriate server-side technologies.
- Build and improve components that are performant, maintainable, and consumed by other teams, products, and large numbers of users.
- Instrument systems and components to monitor performance, quality, reliability, and feature characteristics.
- Leverage caching and persistence technologies to improve the scalability and responsiveness of content services.
- Make and communicate architectural decisions while navigating ambiguity and balancing competing technical trade-offs.
- Contribute to strong engineering practices through unit and integration testing, code reviews, security improvements, documentation, and maintainability initiatives.
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