Location:San Francisco, CA or Remote
Duration:4-5 months with possible extension
Hours:32-40 hours/week
Summary
We’re looking for a full stack software engineer who can build amazing technology that serves overhalf a billion pages per dayand who can maintain our maps infrastructure. Are you ready to write open source code that powers one of the most popular websites in the world?
You will do these things:
Create and maintain RESTful microservices in Nodejs and PHP
Maintain our multi-tier maps infrastructure
Author polished PHP that supports the Wikipedia experience
Transform content from disparate backend APIs
Curate and maintain a set of key performance indicators for core features
Profile, analyze, and optimize code performance
Leverage our various caching technologies
Inspect and modify JavaScript and CSS that drives the Wikipedia experience.
We’d like you to have these skills:
2 years scalable web application development
1 year of digital cartography / geospatial / maps experience with products consumed by end users
1 year of scalable RESTful services development
1 year scalable persistence (e.g., in-memory database) usage
A knack for modernizing code
API architecture
A penchant for traversing structured and not-so-structured markup and data
Interest in the intersection of performance and user perception
A love of knowledge and open access
Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit tests, reviewing code and responding to code reviews, and discussing architectural approach
Familiarity with HTML5, CSS, modern web standards
And it would be even more awesome if you have this:
Bachelor’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or equivalent
Specialized knowledge in parsing HTML and semi-structured documents
Experience with technology like Postgres, Cassandra, Express, and Mocha (and now for more buzzwords! MongoDB, Restify, Jasmine)
Experience with Responsive Web Design approaches
Familiarity with React or AngularJS or other similar frameworks
Experience using CI tools like Travis or Jenkins
Exposure to data science
A history of open source contribution
Experience with Wikipedia editing / MediaWiki / Wikitext
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia, the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects, and our mission of free knowledge for every single person. We help bring new knowledge to people around the world, lower barriers to participation, and make it easier for everyone to share what they know. We do this by keeping the Wikimedia projects fast, secure, and available to all, protecting the values and policies that allow free knowledge projects like Wikipedia to thrive, building new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites, and by supporting the communities of volunteers who make the projects possible.
At the Foundation, we build technology to help people everywhere access Wikipedia, across devices and in nearly 300 languages. We engineer privacy for our readers and editors so they can safely and securely explore Wikipedia. We createprogramsand initiatives to make Wikipedia freely available to more people in more parts of the world. We buildnew toolsfor the community of editors so they can continue to improve and grow Wikipedia. Roughly a quarter of our budget goes to supporting the community that make the site possible, including throughgrantmaking programsthat enable volunteers and enrich the information on the sites.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
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