Software Engineer III, Editing

Wikimedia Foundation

Software Engineer III developing collaborative experiences for Wikipedia at Wikimedia Foundation. Focusing on enhancing the VisualEditor capabilities and supporting volunteers across languages.

Posted 6/10/2026full-timeRemote • California, Florida, New York • 🇺🇸 United StatesJuniorMid-Level💰 $95,164 - $148,729 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies

JavaScriptPHPPythonRuby

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Improving the Wikipedia product experience by fixing bugs and implementing new functionality.
Iterating on new features through collaboration with fellow engineers, product managers, designers, other teams, and community members.
Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant code using Javascript and PHP.
Building on top of the MediaWiki API ecosystem.
Instrumenting components to monitor feature behavior and quality characteristics.

Requirements

What you’ll need

2–5 years related professional or open-source software engineering experience.
Experience with object-oriented development using a scripting language (such as JavaScript, PHP, Python or Ruby).
Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets.
Focused software engineering: you have experience of writing unit tests, and of structuring your work with version control.
A desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access.
An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels.
A strong aptitude in algorithms and data structures is essential!

Benefits

Comp & perks

Competitive salary
Opportunity for remote work
Diverse and inclusive work environment

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Hard Skills & Tools

JavaScriptPHPPythonRubyobject-oriented developmentunit testingversion controlalgorithmsdata structuresMediaWiki API

Soft Skills

written communicationcollaborationclear communicationsynchronous communicationasynchronous communication