Software Engineer - Moderator Tools

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a product software engineer to join the Moderator Tools team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out components for our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a remote environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open-source code for collaborative experiences supporting over 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 Moderator Tools team, we build and improve tools for Wikimedia's volunteer patrollers and administrators, improving their ability to review and take action on bad content across Wikimedia projects. Wikipedia's reliability and trustworthiness is in large part a result of the efforts of these volunteers, who review new edits, revert vandalism, block bad actors, and protect important content. We recently completed a project to enable communities to configure automated detection and reversion of bad edits, giving them more capacity for content moderation tasks. We are currently focusing on projects that improve patrolling experiences while maintaining other projects that support moderators and editors. You are responsible for: Work on our upcoming project to create a centralized place to organize moderation activities Improving the content moderation experience by building new functionality primarily for patrolling interfaces such as Special:RecentChanges, Special:Watchlist, etc. Fixing bugs for code that our team maintains, including the Automoderator wikimedia extension and The Wikipedia Library codebases. Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other teams on shared projects. Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant user interfaces using JavaScript, PHP, VueJS, and CSS. Building on top of existing Design System Library components in our ecosystem and writing new ones when needed. Building on top of existing MediaWiki APIs in our ecosystem. Extending the capabilities of the MediaWiki stack to serve diverse community needs by incorporating possibilities that are offered by new tooling or technical advances. Writing unit and integration tests Proactively addressing security and code review feedback Working across teams to proactively reduce technical debt by refactoring code, updating testing frameworks, and reviewing code from other engineers. Instrumenting components to monitor user behavior and performance characteristics Skills and experience: 3-5 years related professional experience in programming roles with some understanding in fundamental frontend and backend concepts. Experience in JavaScript. Experience in PHP or Python. A demonstrated ability to deliver features collaboratively in a team environment. Experience converting design mockups into functional components Experience with incorporating performance and accessibility into features. Experience in writing well-documented and readable code Qualities that are important to us: A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access. An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels. A willingness to incorporate new technical approaches and engineering thought patterns towards solving problems. Interest in mentoring, or teaching and sharing technical knowledge.

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge freely. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.