Software Engineer - Growth Team

Software Engineer - Growth Team - Full Stack

Summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for product software engineers to join the Growth team, reporting to product engineering management. As a product engineer, you will be responsible for building out the user facing 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 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 Growth team, our mission is to support new account holders by designing and building engaging, intuitive, and inclusive products that make it easier to join the Wikimedia movement. We envision a thriving Wikimedia community where the barrier to entry for contributing to Wikipedia and other Wikimedia projects is as low as possible, thus allowing more people to successfully become active editors, and advance into roles that require more experience, leading to a sustainable and diverse knowledge commons. So far, our main projects have focused on machine-learning driven task recommendations and volunteer mentorship.

You are responsible for:

• Improving the Wikipedia new contributor and moderation experience by building new functionality primarily in the GrowthExperiments extension and fixing bugs for code that our team maintains.
• Collaborating with product managers, designers, and other teams on shared projects.
• Writing multilingual, accessible and performant user facing interfaces using JavaScript, 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.

Additionally, we'd love it if you have this:

• • Experience working with internationally distributed teams or organizations
  • Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
  • Experience with  Bash, VueJS, and/or Docker
  • Experience working with projects or communities in languages other than English
  • Experience working with large, legacy codebases

About the Wikimedia Foundation

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