Software Engineer (Trust & Safety Team)

Job Description

Responsibilities

Developing, testing, and deploying new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by administrators and staff.Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant user interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, VueJS, and CSS.

Documenting your contributions to our codebase in our technical documentation and our features’ documentation.

Contributing to projects that require handling sensitive data and private information, complying with privacy and security regulations.

Providing support in abuse investigations on our platform, helping identify sources and causes of incidents, and proposing ideas to mitigate their impact.

Developing expertise in the Trust and Safety area, which includes, security, privacy, abuse mitigation, content moderation and legal compliance.

Extending the capabilities of the MediaWiki stack to serve diverse community needs by incorporating possibilities that are offered by new tooling or technical advances.

Working across teams to proactively reduce technical debt by refactoring code, updating testing frameworks, and reviewing code from other engineers.

Skills and experience

3+ years of related professional or volunteering experience in software engineering roles, including frontend and backend development, with an emphasis on backend.

Experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript). Most of our work is in PHP and JavaScript.

Experience converting design mockups into functional components, incorporating performance and accessibility into the features using well-documented and readable code.

Focused software engineering: writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing tradeoffs.

Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets.

Additionally, we’d love it if you have this

Experience with MediaWiki development or as a contributor to Wikimedia projects.

Experience with legacy codebases and/or experience in free/open source software development experience.

Experience with online community moderation, vandalism prevention and other Trust and Safety concepts and practices