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Lead Software Engineer (6-Month Contract)

Posted 2024-07-11

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📍 Location: Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Costa Rica, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Ghana, Greece, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Kenya, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Peru, Poland, Singapore, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States of America, Uruguay

💸 Salary: 60 - 93 USD per hour

🔍 Industry: Nonprofit / Free Knowledge / Software Development

🗣️ Languages: English

🪄 Skills: PHPSoftware DevelopmentGitJavascriptC (Programming language)

Requirements:
  • Education and/or experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (e.g., PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript).
  • Interest in front-end web application development skills.
  • Experience with collaborative open-source communities.
  • Openness to working with a diverse and geographically distributed team.
  • Strong written communication skills as collaboration largely happens online.
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field or equivalent work-related experience.
Responsibilities:
  • Architect, develop, test, and deploy new features, improvements, and upgrades to various systems and tools used by the Wikimedia community.
  • Partner with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, testing, and evaluation of potential technical solutions.
  • Help identify and implement best practices in engineering processes across the team.
  • Ensure positive and constructive discussions with the community and the Foundation.
  • Work and communicate effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones.
  • Actively share knowledge and collaborate with team members.
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💸 60 - 93 USD per hour

🔍 Nonprofit / Technology / Open Source

  • Education and/or experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript.
  • Interest in front-end web application development skills.
  • Experience with collaborative open-source communities.
  • Openness to working with a diverse and geographically distributed team.
  • Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online.
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or a related field, or the equivalent in work-related experience.

  • Architect, develop, test, and deploy new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by the Wikimedia community.
  • Partner with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, testing and evaluation of potential technical solutions.
  • Help identify and implement best practices in engineering processes across the team.
  • Ensure positive and constructive discussions with the community and the Foundation.
  • Work and communicate effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones.
  • Actively share knowledge.

PHPSoftware DevelopmentGitJavascriptC (Programming language)Written communication

Posted 2024-07-11
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