Senior Android Engineer — Remote, Global Impact

Wikimedia Foundation; Oklahoma City (OK); Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android, to advance the App Experience and App Growth within the Core Experiences engineering group. This remote, globally distributed team expects at least four hours of daily overlap between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC to coordinate across time zones.

The role emphasizes building scalable Android components, optimizing performance, and collaborating across product, design, analytics, and native app engineers to deliver high-quality

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher in a technical field with significant Android experience.
• Strong Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose skills and Android architecture familiarity.
• Experience optimizing Android performance across devices and conditions.
• Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to native apps (iOS/Android).
• Experience maintaining cross‑platform mobile apps and building engaging mobile experiences.
• Familiarity with data science/ML concepts and content management systems (MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress).
• Ability to scale team output with pragmatic design and shared knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Identify risks early and tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Lead design for medium projects and build accessible, scalable Android components.
• Write testable, observable code; instrument features for analytics.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and other engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
• Prioritize high-impact opportunities, clarify priorities and sequencing.
• Align with the Foundation's mission and values.

Skills

Android

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Performance optimisation

Cross‑platform

Webview

Mobile games

AI familiarity

Agentic coding

Architectural patterns

Collaboration

Education

BS in CS/MIS/STEM

MS/PhD

Tools

MediaWiki

Drupal

WordPress

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android, to advance the App Experience and App Growth within the Core Experiences engineering group. This remote, globally distributed team expects at least four hours of daily overlap between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC to coordinate across time zones.

The role emphasizes building scalable Android components, optimizing performance, and collaborating across product, design, analytics, and native app engineers to deliver high-quality