Wikimedia Foundation
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology
501 - 1000
Software Engineer, Trust and Safety
July 28
🏡 Remote – New York
Wikimedia Foundation
Imagine a world in which every single human being can freely share in the sum of all knowledge.
Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology
501 - 1000
Description
• Responsible for building features to keep communities safe from abuse, harassment, vandalism, and harmful content. • Working on a broad set of tools related to user privacy and protection. • Collaborating with various teams including database administrators, security engineers, and legal teams.
Requirements
• 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.
Benefits
• Competitive and equitable salaries • Work-life balance • Fully remote work environment • Diverse and inclusive workplace
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