Remote Senior Android Engineer - App Experience & Growth

Wikimedia Foundation

Oklahoma

Remote

USD 130,000 - 180,000

Full time

6 days ago

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Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to advance the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. This fully remote role requires coordination across time zones, with at least four hours daily overlapping 15:00–21:00 UTC.

You’ll drive mobile Android development, design scalable components, optimize performance, and collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to deliver high-impact features for

Qualifications

Bachelor's and 5-10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building Android applications.
Strong professional experience with Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose and architectural patterns in Android.
Experience with Android performance optimisation techniques to ensure smooth, responsive apps.
Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to existing native mobile apps (iOS or Android).
Experience in maintaining cross-platform mobile applications.
Experience building mobile games or other interactive mobile experiences.
Experience with data science, machine learning, and/or AI (familiarity with Wikipedia/wikitext/Content management systems like MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress).
Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree in computer science, MIS, or STEM field.
Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects.

Responsibilities

Identifies risks early and helps the team make pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
Implementation – Improving the mobile Wikipedia product experiences on Android; leads system design for medium-sized projects and builds scalable components.
Quality, testing and observability – builds software that is easy to test, observe and debug; instruments features for deeper analytics.
Cross-functional collaboration – partners with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
Prioritisation – identifies high-impact technical opportunities and risks and clarifies priorities and sequencing.