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. 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.
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.
Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant code using Javascript and PHP.
Instrumenting components to monitor feature behavior and quality characteristics.
2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience.




~ Experience with object-oriented development using a scripting language (such as JavaScript, PHP, Python or Ruby). Most of our work is in JavaScript, PHP and CSS.
~ Focused software engineering: you have experience of writing unit tests, and of structuring your work with version control.
~ Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets.

Qualities that are important to us:
A strong aptitude in algorithms and data structures is essential
Additionally, we'd love it if you have this:
A history of editing on Wikimedia projects.
Bachelor's degree in computer science or mathematics, or equivalent experience.
Algorithms and data structures are extremely important in our products, so if this sounds interesting, come and talk to us
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. We host Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, build

📌 Software Engineer PHP (España)
🏢 Wikimedia Foundation
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