Senior Software Engineer (Product Infrastructure)
Summary
We’re looking for a full stack software engineer who can build amazing technology that serves over half a billion pages per day. Are you ready to write open source code that powers one of the most popular websites in the world?
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain scalable, performant, well-designed services to expose content and business logic for our Product teams
Author readable, well tested, performant and maintainable code to support the Wikipedia experience
Review and discuss code from your colleagues and volunteers
Collaborate with engineers across the Product and Technology departments to determine our infrastructural needs
Write specifications for technical projects based on product and engineering use cases
Mentor other engineers and advocate for best engineering practices
Maintain a suite of APIs and software components used by our Product teams
Skills and experience:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field; or equivalent professional experience
5+ years related professional experience
Technical leadership, including involvement in definition of software architecture
3+ years of experience developing scalable web services
1+ year of experience utilizing scalable persistence
Qualities that are important to us:
You are not scared to dive in and change code you did not write
Empathy for your users and collaborators
Ability to communicate ideas clearly
A love for open knowledge and open source
We’d like you to have these skills:
Bachelor’s or master’s degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field; or equivalent professional experience
5+ years related professional experience
Technical leadership, including involvement in definition of software architecture
3+ years scalable web development
2+ years 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
Additionally, we’d love it if you have:
Experience evolving and improving working code
API design and architecture skills
Familiarity with HTML5, CSS, and modern web standards
Experience with technologies like PHP, Nodejs, Express.js, Python, Puppet, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, etc.
Experience working in a Linux server environment
Experience using CI tools like Jenkins
A history of open source contribution
Specialized knowledge in parsing HTML and semi-structured documents
U.S.Benefits & Perks*
Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
Flexible and generous time off – vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays – including the last week of the year.
Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.
For those emergency moments – long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
Great colleagues – diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
*Eligible international workers’ benefits are specific to their location and dependent on their employer of record
More information
WMF Blog Wikimedia 2030 Wikimedia Medium Term Plan Diversity and inclusion information for Wikimedia workers, by the numbers Wikimania 2019 Annual Report – 2017 This is Wikimedia Foundation Facts Matter Our Projects Fundraising Report
