The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Software Engineer to join the Trust and Safety Product team. This fully-remote role involves building features to keep our communities safe from abuse, harassment, vandalism, and harmful content. The team works on tools related to user privacy and protection, contributing to features, participating in code reviews, and collaborating with various specialists. The work extends into areas like privacy, security, abuse mitigation, content moderation, and legal compliance.
Responsibilities:
- Developing, testing, and deploying new features.
- Writing user interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, VueJS, and CSS.
- Documenting contributions.
- Contributing to projects handling sensitive data.
- Providing support in abuse investigations.
- Developing expertise in Trust and Safety.
- Extending MediaWiki capabilities.
- Reducing technical debt.
Skills and Experience:
- 3+ years of software engineering experience.
- Experience with Object-Oriented development with PHP or JavaScript.
- Experience converting design mockups into functional components.
- Strong written communication skills.
Qualities:
- Desire to contribute to knowledge equity.
- Clear communication skills.
- Willingness to participate in technical discussions.
- Eagerness to solve technical problems.
- Skill to work with documentation.
- Sensitivity for the problems being solved.
