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\nSenior Software Engineer (Product Infrastructure)\n\nSummary\n\nWe’re looking for a full stack software engineer who can build amazing technology that serves over half a billion pages per day. Are you ready to write open source code that powers one of the most popular websites in the world? \n\nResponsibilities:\n\n\n* Create and maintain scalable, performant, well-designed services to expose content and business logic for our Product teams\n\n* Author readable, well tested, performant and maintainable code to support the Wikipedia experience\n\n* Review and discuss code from your colleagues and volunteers\n\n* Collaborate with engineers across the Product and Technology departments to determine our infrastructural needs\n\n* Write specifications for technical projects based on product and engineering use cases\n\n* Mentor other engineers and advocate for best engineering practices\n\n* Maintain a suite of APIs and software components used by our Product teams\n\n\n\n\nSkills and experience:\n\n\n* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field; or equivalent professional experience\n\n* 5+ years related professional experience\n\n* Technical leadership, including involvement in definition of software architecture\n\n* 3+ years of experience developing scalable web services\n\n* 1+ year of experience utilizing scalable persistence\n\n\n\n\nQualities that are important to us:\n\n\n* You are not scared to dive in and change code you did not write\n\n* Empathy for your users and collaborators\n\n* Ability to communicate ideas clearly\n\n* A love for open knowledge and open source\n\n\n\n\nWe’d like you to have these skills: \n\n\n* Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field; or equivalent professional experience\n\n* 5+ years related professional experience\n\n* Technical leadership, including involvement in definition of software architecture\n\n* 3+ years scalable web development\n\n* 2+ years of scalable RESTful services development\n\n* 1 year scalable persistence (e.g., in-memory database) usage\n\n* A knack for modernizing code\n\n* API architecture\n\n* A penchant for traversing structured and not-so-structured markup and data\n\n* Interest in the intersection of performance and user perception\n\n* A love of knowledge and open access\n\n* Focused software engineering: you enjoy writing unit tests, reviewing code and responding to code reviews, and discussing architectural approach\n\n* Familiarity with HTML5, CSS, modern web standards \n\n\n\n\nAdditionally, we’d love it if you have:\n\n\n* Experience evolving and improving working code\n\n* API design and architecture skills\n\n* Familiarity with HTML5, CSS, and modern web standards\n\n* Experience with technologies like PHP, Node.js, Express.js, Python, Puppet, Docker, MySQL, Postgres, etc.\n\n* Experience working in a Linux server environment\n\n* Experience using CI tools like Jenkins\n\n* A history of open source contribution\n\n* Specialized knowledge in parsing HTML and semi-structured documents\n\n\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 \nThis is Wikimedia Foundation \nFacts Matter\nOur Projects\nFundraising Report \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Senior, Engineer, Developer, Digital Nomad, Education, HTML and Linux jobs that are similar:\n\n $60,000 — $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