Senior Android Engineer - Remote, Global App Experience

Wikimedia Foundation; Vermont; Teletrabalho; USD 140 000 - 190 000; Tempo integral

Resumo da oferta

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 remote role requires at least four hours daily between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.

The ideal candidate will drive Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, optimize performance, integrate webviews, and contribute to cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and analytics partners.

Qualificações

• Bachelor's degree and 5–10+ years Android app development experience.
• Strong Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose skills.
• Experience optimizing Android performance for varying conditions.
• Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to native apps.
• Experience maintaining cross-platform mobile apps.
• Experience building mobile games or interactive experiences.
• Familiarity with Wikipedia/WikiText/Markdown editing or CMS (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress).
• Experience collaborating with product, design, analytics and native engineers.
• Prior Wikimedia MediaWiki experience.

Responsabilidades

• Identifies risks early, and helps the team make pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Improving the mobile Wikipedia product experiences on Android; leads system design for medium-sized projects; builds accessible, scalable components.
• Quality, testing and observability—builds testable, observable, debuggable software; instruments features for Product Analysts.
• Cross-functional collaboration with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
• Prioritisation—identifies high-impact opportunities and risks; clarifies priorities and sequencing.
• Commitment to the Foundation's Mission and Values.

Conhecimentos

Android development

Kotlin

Jetpack Compose

XML

Performance optimization

Webview integration

Cross-platform apps

Mobile games

Wiki formats

MediaWiki familiarity

Formação académica

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or STEM

Equivalent certification

Ferramentas

MediaWiki

Drupal

WordPress

Descrição da oferta de emprego

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 remote role requires at least four hours daily between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.

The ideal candidate will drive Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, optimize performance, integrate webviews, and contribute to cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and analytics partners.