Remote Senior Android Engineer – Kotlin & Scalable UI

Wikimedia Foundation; Colorado; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-first

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to support the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. Our teams aim to make our apps the destination for knowledge lovers and to grow our active readership.

It’s a remote-first organization with a required daily overlap window between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC for collaboration. You will lead medium-sized Android projects, optimize performance, and contribute to accessible, scalable

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 5-10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building Android applications.
• Strong proficiency with Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose, and familiarity with Android architectural patterns.
• Experience with Android performance optimisation techniques for diverse conditions.
• Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to existing native mobile apps.
• Experience with data science, ML, or AI concepts in a mobile context.
• Prior MediaWiki/Wikimedia project experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identifies risks early and helps the team trade off quality, velocity, maintainability and user impact.
• Implementation - improve Android product experiences for a global audience and design scalable components.
• Quality, testing and observability - build testable, observable code and instrument features for analysis.
• Cross-functional collaboration - partner with product, design, analysts, and native app engineers to plan solutions.
• Prioritisation - clarify priorities and sequencing across engagement timelines.

Skills

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Android architecture

Android performance optimisation

Cross-functional collaboration

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate in CS/MIS/STEM

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to support the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. Our teams aim to make our apps the destination for knowledge lovers and to grow our active readership.

It’s a remote-first organization with a required daily overlap window between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC for collaboration. You will lead medium-sized Android projects, optimize performance, and contribute to accessible, scalable