Location: Remote
Summary
Wikimedia projects are built to be collaborative, multilingual and usable by people from around the world. The New Readers Engineering team works on products that deliver compelling experiences to Wikipedia readers in emerging markets, driving increased adoption and retention of Wikipedia.
We are currently working on product intervention explorations that will be gradually rolled out for users later in the year. As a Software Engineer on the team you will be working with Software Engineers, Product Managers, Designers and QA Engineers to develop user interface features, fix bugs, review code and participate in engineering discussions that influence our project decisions. You will be mostly working on PHP, JavaScript, CSS, HTML5.
Our team is fully remote and team members work from various places around the world.
As a Software Engineer, we would like you to do:
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Requirements
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The Wikimedia Foundation is...
...the nonprofit organization that hosts and 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 be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
U.S. Benefits & Perks*
*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
Posted Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. Software Engineer (New Readers) on August 13, 2019 via
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