Friday, September 7, 2012

Job opening - Senior Software Engineer (Platform) at Wikimedia Foundation (San Francisco, CA)

Job Summary



  • Take a leadership role in selected engineering efforts, including:

    • Maintain the quality and architectural coherence of software used by Wikimedia for assigned area

    • Communicate, educate and implement best practices and standards

    • On-board new engineering team members

    • Represent engineering team and assist team management in planning (estimation, risk evaluation, etc.), self-organization and identification/resolution of blockers

    • Work with other engineering leads to ensure common problems receive common solutions

    • Support the entire project team in technical matters (QA testers, product manager, etc.)



  • Design and develop necessary components to support MediaWiki extensions.

  • Develop new features and enhance existing features for Wikimedia sites.

  • Work on a variety of projects inc! luding but not limited to user-facing features, support systems such as fundraising, survey tools, etc., depending on priority.

  • Help improve efficiency, scalability, and stability of various system components.

  • Maintain software (for example, fixing bugs and updating deprecated APIs).

  • Conduct design and code reviews.

  • Support testing efforts for feature deployments.

  • Participate in periodic technology meetings for design, development and testing.



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