Software Engineer

Description:

You are responsible for:

• Developing, testing, and deploying new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by administrators and staff.
• Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant user interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, VueJS, and CSS.
• Documenting your contributions to our codebase in our technical documentation and our features’ documentation.
• Contributing to projects that require handling sensitive data and private information, complying with privacy and security regulations.
• Providing support in abuse investigations on our platform, helping identify sources and causes of incidents, and proposing ideas to mitigate their impact.
• Developing expertise in the Trust and Safety area, which includes, security, privacy, abuse mitigation, content moderation and legal compliance.
• Extending the capabilities of the MediaWiki stack to serve diverse community needs by incorporating possibilities that are offered by new tooling or technical advances.
• Working across teams to proactively reduce technical debt by refactoring code, updating testing frameworks, and reviewing code from other engineers.

Skills and Experience:

• 3+ years of related professional or volunteering experience in software engineering roles, including frontend and backend development, with an emphasis on backend.
• Experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript). Most of our work is in PHP and JavaScript.
• Experience converting design mockups into functional components, incorporating performance and accessibility into the features using well-documented and readable code.
• Focused software engineering: writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing tradeoffs.
• Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets.