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\nSummary\n\nOur small team is passionate about making knowledge discoverable. We are responsible for Wikidata Query Service (a graph database that allows users to run arbitrary SPARQL queries on Wikidata) and for the search engine used on Wikipedia and its sister projects.\n\nWe are looking for a software engineer to help us bring the Search Platform team to the next level.\n\nWe use open-source tools as much as possible, and always open source our own work. Java, Python, PHP, and Scala make up most of our code, but we value using the right tool for the job. Our world is vast and can be complicated, so we value communication, enthusiasm, and an eagerness to learn.\n\nYou are responsible for:\n\n\n* Work and communicate clearly and effectively within a small team that spans multiple time zones\n\n* Help maintain, scale, and extend query services at the Wikimedia Foundation — this includes the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and our Elasticsearch-based search engine\n\n* Improve the integration of Search, Wikidata Query Service, and the MediaWiki platform\n\n\n\n\nSkills and Experience:\n\n\n* Good working knowledge of software design principles\n\n* Good understanding of how to scale applications, in terms of load, complexity, and performance\n\n* Ability to work in a Linux server environment\n\n* Write code in Java and PHP that stands the test of time\n\n* Demonstrated experience in large-scale Java applications\n\n* Be willing to travel occasionally - sometimes internationally - for team and organizational meetings\n\n* Proficient English speaker\n\n\n\n\nAdditionally, we’d love it if you have:\n\n\n* Degree in computer science, statistics, math, physics or other quantitative discipline; equivalent experience learned hands-on on the job also works\n\n* Experience with graph databases\n\n* Experience working on open source, collaborative development projects\n\n* Understanding of free culture / free software / open source principles\n\n* Exposure to applied machine learning (ML), deep learning, or natural language processing (NLP)\n\n* Familiarity with statistics\n\n* Experience with an internet software environment operating at scale; for example, messaging platforms that process hundreds of thousands of events per second\n\n* Big thumbs ups if you are a contributor to Wikipedia\n\n\n\n\nShow us your stuff! If you have any existing open-source software that you've developed (this could be your own software or patches to other packages), please share the URLs for the source. Links to GitHub, etc. are especially useful.  \n\n\nU.S. Benefits & Perks*\n\n\n* Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)\n\n* The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more\n\n* The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary\n\n* Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.\n\n* Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.\n\n* For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program\n\n* Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses\n\n* Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available\n\n* Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax\n\n* Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people\n\n\n\n\n*Eligible international workers' benefits are specific to their location and dependent on their employer of record\n\nMore information\n\nWMF\nBlog\nWikimedia 2030\nWikimedia Medium Term Plan\nDiversity and inclusion information for Wikimedia workers, by the numbers\nWikimania 2019\nAnnual Report - 2017 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, Education, Java, PHP, Scala, Travel and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nSummary\n\nOur small team is passionate about making knowledge discoverable. We are responsible for Wikidata Query Service (a graph database that allows users to run arbitrary SPARQL queries on Wikidata) and for the search engine used on Wikipedia and its sister projects.\n\nWe are looking for a software engineer to help us bring the Search Platform team to the next level.\n\nWe use open-source tools as much as possible, and always open source our own work. Java, Python, PHP, and Scala make up most of our code, but we value using the right tool for the job. Our world is vast and can be complicated, so we value communication, enthusiasm, and an eagerness to learn.\n\nYou are responsible for:\n\n\n* Work and communicate clearly and effectively within a small team that spans multiple time zones\n\n* Help maintain, scale, and extend query services at the Wikimedia Foundation — this includes the Wikidata Query Service (WDQS) and our Elasticsearch-based search engine\n\n* Improve the integration of Search, Wikidata Query Service, and the MediaWiki platform\n\n\n\n\nSkills and Experience:\n\n\n* Good working knowledge of software design principles\n\n* Good understanding of how to scale applications, in terms of load, complexity, and performance\n\n* Ability to work in a Linux server environment\n\n* Write code in Java and PHP that stands the test of time\n\n* Demonstrated experience in large-scale Java applications\n\n* Be willing to travel occasionally - sometimes internationally - for team and organizational meetings\n\n* Proficient English speaker\n\n\n\n\nAdditionally, we’d love it if you have:\n\n\n* Degree in computer science, statistics, math, physics or other quantitative discipline; equivalent experience learned hands-on on the job also works\n\n* Experience with graph databases\n\n* Experience working on open source, collaborative development projects\n\n* Understanding of free culture / free software / open source principles\n\n* Exposure to applied machine learning (ML), deep learning, or natural language processing (NLP)\n\n* Familiarity with statistics\n\n* Experience with an internet software environment operating at scale; for example, messaging platforms that process hundreds of thousands of events per second\n\n* Big thumbs ups if you are a contributor to Wikipedia\n\n\n\n\nShow us your stuff! If you have any existing open-source software that you've developed (this could be your own software or patches to other packages), please share the URLs for the source. Links to GitHub, etc. are especially useful.  \n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is... \n\n...the nonprofit organization that hosts and operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. Our vision is a world in which every single human can freely share in the sum of all knowledge. We believe that everyone has the potential to contribute something to our shared knowledge, and that everyone should be able to access that knowledge, free of interference. We host the Wikimedia projects, build software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, support the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocate for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive. The Wikimedia Foundation is a charitable, not-for-profit organization that relies on donations. We receive financial support from millions of individuals around the world, with an average donation of about $15. We also receive donations through institutional grants and gifts. The Wikimedia Foundation is a United States 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization with offices in San Francisco, California, USA.\n\nThe Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.\n\nU.S. Benefits & Perks*\n\n\n* Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)\n\n* The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more\n\n* The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary\n\n* Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.\n\n* Family friendly! 100% paid new parent leave for seven weeks plus an additional five weeks for pregnancy, flexible options to phase back in after leave, fully equipped lactation room.\n\n* For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program\n\n* Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses\n\n* Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available\n\n* Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax\n\n* Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people\n\n\n\n\n*Eligible international workers' benefits are specific to their location and dependent on their employer of record\n\nMore information\n\nWMF\nBlog\nWikimedia 2030\nWikimedia Medium Term Plan\nDiversity and inclusion information for Wikimedia workers, by the numbers\nWikimania 2019\nAnnual Report - 2017 \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, Education, Java, PHP, Scala, Travel and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nreDock Inc. is looking for a senior Java / Kotlin full stack developer (Java / Kotlin / Scala on the backend and JavaScript / React on the frontend) to help us build our core product. Our software leverages machine learning, search, and other techniques to extract corporate content into meaningful segments that can be repurposed to accelerate document creation. As a motivated full-stack developer in a startup environment, you will have tremendous say in the work you do and the direction of our product.\n\nOur target stack is Kotlin, JavaScript ES6 with React and GraphQL, SQL, graph database, and ElasticSearch backends, running on Linux with Docker and Kubernetes.\n\nYou will primarily build the backend services for our product, such as to manage content, search it efficiently, handle import and export capabilities, deal with user authentication and authorization, and more. You will integrate your software with systems like ArangoDB, ElasticSearch and Kafka. You will also build out our GraphQL API, and implement React components on the frontend. If you have the ability and the interest, you may also be involved with the devops for our solution, and with training and using machine learning for classification, segmentation, and analysis of our data.\n\nAbout You\n\nAs a candidate, you love writing software. You always pay attention to the details. Your code is consistent, beautiful and bulletproof. Your log messages are useful. Your terminal window is always a keystroke away. You likely know regular expressions almost as well as you know your native language. You love playing with and prototyping new technology and frameworks. You understand the difference between sync, async, blocking and non-blocking code. You love tinkering with stuff. You like a challenge when solving problems and live for that “aha!” moment when you solve a doozy. You are always striving to expand your knowledge and toolset. You have strong opinions and an active mind. You will have great examples of bringing tremendous value to the organizations you have worked for.\n\nQualifications\n\n\n* At least 4-5 years of relevant work experience\n\n* Degree in Computer Science/Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Mathematics, or equivalent experience\n\n* Expert backend development on any JVM language (Java, Kotlin, Scala, Groovy, Clojure)\n\n* Strong frontend development, ideally with JavaScript ES6, React or Angular, and related libraries and tools\n\n* Experience with designing APIs using REST, SOAP/XML, and possibly GraphQL\n\n* Relational database design and SQL\n\n* Unit testing tools such as JUnit\n\n* Professional application development experience\n\n* Linux/UNIX use and maintenance\n\n* Strong English communication skills, written and verbal. Must be able to communicate effectively with both technical and non-technical colleagues\n\n* A mature individual that can work unattended and meet deadlines in a home office environment\n\n\n\n\nNice to Haves\n\n\n* Know or can learn .NET, Python, Go\n\n* Experience with search tech like Lucene, ElasticSearch, or Solr\n\n* Expert source control, ideally Git or other DVCS\n\n* Non-relational (NoSQL) database design and query, including document and graph databases\n\n* Experience with functional and Reactive programming\n\n* Experience building micro-services architectures using tools like gRPC and Kafka\n\n* Experience with the Gradle build tool, and continuous integration with Jenkins or TeamCity\n\n* Devops experience, containers e.g. Docker, Kubernetes\n\n* Familiarity with machine learning\n\n* Contributions to open source projects\n\n* Active on sites like StackOverflow\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Java, Senior, Full Stack, Developer, Digital Nomad, React, DevOps, English, JavaScript, Elasticsearch, Git, Scala, Linux and Backend jobs that are similar:\n\n $62,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n