Desired Skills and Experience
- Design, develop, test, and deploy new features and improvements to MediaWiki.
- Triage, diagnose, and fix reported bugs in MediaWiki
- Maintain extensions to the PHP engine.
- Partner with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, review, testing and evaluation.
- Help identify and implement best practices in engineering processes across the team.
- Work and communicate effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones.
- Relevant Bachelor’s degree OR 5 years software development experience
- Proficient in PHP and MySQL
- Substantial code samples which you can show us
- Experience with Linux, memcached, Redis, content distribution networks
- Experience with C/C++ and JavaScript
- Familiarity with web protocols and standards: HTML, CSS, HTTP
- Experience with open source software development
- Experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects
- Fully paid medical, dental and vision coverage for employees and their eligible families (yes, fully paid premiums!)
- The Wellness Program provides reimbursement for mind, body and soul activities such as fitness memberships, baby sitting, continuing education and much more
- The 401(k) retirement plan offers matched contributions at 4% of annual salary
- Flexible and generous time off - vacation, sick and volunteer days, plus 19 paid holidays - including the last week of the year.
- 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.
- For those emergency moments - long and short term disability, life insurance (2x salary) and an employee assistance program
- Pre-tax savings plans for health care, child care, elder care, public transportation and parking expenses
- Telecommuting and flexible work schedules available
- Appropriate fuel for thinking and coding (aka, a pantry full of treats) and monthly massages to help staff relax
- Great colleagues - diverse staff and contractors speaking dozens of languages from around the world, fantastic intellectual discourse, mission-driven and intensely passionate people
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