Software Engineer III – Editing Team
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a software engineer to join our team, reporting to product 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 distributed environment, where we value teamwork and a consensus-oriented approach. You get to write open source code for collaborative experiences supporting a worldwide top-ten website (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 Editing Team , we support new and experienced volunteers working in 300+ languages with the tools they need to keep Wikipedia accurate and up to date. The team's main area of focus is the flagship VisualEditor , our industry-leading rich-text editing platform which we have been extending to serve new use cases (e.g. DiscussionTools to support on-wiki communication)



and unlock new capabilities that lower the barriers people encounter when contributing to Wikipedia. The latest capability being Edit Check , an open-ended system designed to surface actionable pieces of feedback and suggestions that help volunteers improve the quality and integrity of the information Wikipedia offers.
You are responsible for:
- 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.

Skills and experience:
- 2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience.
- Experience with object-oriented development using a

📌 Software Engineer III (España)
🏢 Wikimedia Foundation
📍 España