Software Engineer III, Content Transform Team

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to engineering management. As a software engineer, you will be responsible for engineering software that supports our product user experiences. In this role, you will work in a fully-remote environment (with occasional travel for team, department, or organization events), where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting over a 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 Content Transform team, we work to support and evolve all things wikitext, the markup language behind Wikipedia. We aim to make wikitext easier to write, faster to parse, and less error-prone for humans. We also strive to support editing and content analysis tools with structured representations. We also maintain the web services associated with content rendering and transformation. You are responsible for: 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 Skills and experience: 2–5 years related professional experience in software engineering Experience building user-friendly features and software components with good performance Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing architectural tradeoffs 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 Additionally, we'd love it if you have this: Familiarity with the HTML5 spec and DOM manipulation Expertise in Node.js and related technologies (and some experience in GIS, OSM) Familiarity with Wikipedia/wikitext/markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress). We grow and care for MediaWiki and Wikimedia specific services. MediaWiki is an open source, PHP, MySQL, and JavaScript web application that powers Wikipedia and other Wikimedia Foundation websites. It has been incrementally developed for over 15 years to become a richly featured wiki engine and the basis for hundreds of extensions and skins, and has a vibrant volunteer community. Experience with one of: parser generators, interpreters, language runtimes, compilers, or bringing a language feature through a product cycle A history of open source contribution Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)

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.