Senior Software Engineer, MediaWiki Content Platform Team Summary
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 well 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 Content Platform team, we work to support and evolve all things wikitext , the markup language behind Wikipedia. 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.
In this role, you will work in a mostly-remote environment.



Designing and delivering improvements to Wikipedia's wikitext processing infrastructure, balancing user experience, performance, backwards compatibility, and maintainability
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
5+ years of related professional experience in software engineering
~ Demonstrated ability to own complex technical projects from problem definition through implementation and delivery, including making and communicating architectural decisions and navigating ambiguity
~ Experience designing and maintaining reliable, performant software components used by other teams, products, or large numbers of users
~ Strong engineering practices: you enjoy writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code

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