Senior Android Engineer (Remote) - App Experience & Growth

Wikimedia Foundation; Heber (UT); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to enhance the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences group. This remote-first role requires daily overlap with overlapping hours for global collaboration.

You will design scalable Android components, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑quality mobile experiences for a multilingual audience.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5–10+ years building Android apps.
• Strong Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose skills and Android architecture patterns.
• Experience with Android performance optimization for varied conditions.
• Experience adding WebView-wrapped experiences to existing native apps (iOS or Android).
• Experience maintaining cross‑platform mobile apps.
• Experience building mobile games or interactive experiences.
• Experience with data science, machine learning, or AI (familiar with Wikipedia content systems).
• Experience leveraging agentic coding to scale small engineering teams.
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate in CS/IS/STEM (or equivalent).
• Prior MediaWiki/Wikimedia project experience.

Responsibilities

• Identifies risks early and helps tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Improvement of mobile Wikipedia experiences on Android; leads system design for medium projects and scalable components.
• Quality, testing and observability: builds software that is easy to test, observe, and debug; instruments features for analysis.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
• Prioritisation of high-impact technical opportunities and clear sequencing of work.
• Commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation's mission and values.

Skills

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Android performance

Cross-platform mobile

ML familiarity

Education

Bachelors in CS/STEM

MS/PhD preferred

Tools

MediaWiki familiarity

Android Studio

Git

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to enhance the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences group. This remote-first role requires daily overlap with overlapping hours for global collaboration.

You will design scalable Android components, optimize performance, and collaborate with cross‑functional teams to deliver high‑quality mobile experiences for a multilingual audience.