Job Title
Senior Front-End Software Developer
Reports To
Director of Features Engineering
You are
A great engineer who loves to hack JavaScript. You’ll join the team that’s building Wikipedia’s next editor. Think of the best web-based document collaboration tool you know -- and then consider building one that's totally open source. Challenge accepted?
Who we are and what we’re doing
Other companies and organizations promise you'll change the world. We are doing it. From Albuquerque to Zanzibar, Wikipedia is where the world turns to understand almost any topic -- more than 500 million people every month. The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia with a small staff.
But we need more help now, to grow and diversify the editing community beyond those who have the stam! ina to figure out geeky code. We won't be satisfied until everyone in the world can contribute to Wikipedia, any time, on any device, in their own languages.
This presents a great challenge for frontend engineers. Not only do we need something as easy to use as a typical word processor, it also has to be backwards compatible with the terabytes of complicated “wikitext” we already have.
We've already made a good proof of concept, but now we need more specialists. For this job we're specifically looking for someone to work on the Wikipedia text processing "engine". While your code will run in the browser, you will be focused on creating an efficient system to process transactions on the document, and maybe even coordinate an editing session with other users elsewhere on the Internet. So when an engineer makes a button that adds footnotes to the page, they will be calling the general-purpose API that you wrote.
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