Software Engineer ID-10566

Requirements
Responsibilities
  • 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.
Desired Qualifications
  • Experience with MediaWiki development or as a contributor to Wikimedia projects.
  • Experience with legacy codebases and/or experience in free/open source software development experience.
  • Experience with online community moderation, vandalism prevention and other Trust and Safety concepts and practices
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