Software Engineer | Internationalization | Wikimedia Foundation | CA - San Francisco

Software Engineer | Internationalization | Wikimedia Foundation | CA - San Francisco

Software Engineer | Internationalization

Language Engineering | San Francisco or Remote

Wikimedia’s Internationalization team is looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join us to help build internationalization and localization features for Wikimedia websites to support 300+ languages. Your work will directly impact billions of people who use Wikipedia every day.  You’ll be joining an established agile engineering team which is globally distributed.

Responsibilities

• Develop features for Wikipedia and sister websites using Javascript and PHP
• Focus on scalable internationalization (i18n), localization (L10n) and translation
• Build software with a first-class multilingual user experience in mind

Requirements

• Solid software development experience using Javascript and/or PHP
• Experience building web-scale, performance oriented features 
• Use open source tools for code review, bug tracking, CI
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English
• BS, MS or PhD in Computer Science or related fields like mathematics, linguistics

Pluses

• It’s great to be multilingual! Tell us about languages you are fluent in
• Having edited Wikipedia in languages beyond English
• Experience working with MediaWiki software
• Familiarity with Web internationalization standards e.g. Unicode, CLDR, ICU
• Experience collaborating effectively within a globally distributed team
• Mobile first responsive design and multilingual UI design awareness
• Contribute to i18n or L10n open source projects
• Large-scale internationalization and localization software development experience
• Demonstrable track record of code contributions to open source projects

Show us your stuff! Please share any of your personal or collaborative project(s) or contributions you feel would be helpful to us in understanding your technical prowess. Links to your open source pet projects, GitHub, your technical blogs, publications would be great.


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