Senior Android Engineer - Remote, Global Impact

Wikimedia Foundation

Yuma (AZ)

Remote

USD 120,000 - 170,000

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 aligning work hours with 15:00–21:00 UTC to coordinate across global teams.

You will lead Android development using Kotlin and Jetpack Compose, tackle performance optimisations, and collaborate with product, design, and analytics to deliver high‑quality mobile experiences for a multilingual

Qualifications

Bachelor's and 5–10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building Android applications.
Proficiency with Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose and Android architecture patterns.
Experience Android performance optimization to keep apps responsive across conditions.
Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to native apps (iOS or Android).
Experience maintaining cross‑platform mobile applications.
Experience building mobile games or interactive mobile experiences.
Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems like MediaWiki/Drupal/WordPress.
Experience with scaling small engineering teams through agentic coding.
Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate degree in CS, MIS, or STEM (or equivalent).
Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects.

Responsibilities

Identifies risks early and helps make pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, velocity and user impact.
Leads design for medium-sized Android projects and builds accessible, scalable components.
Focuses on quality, testing and observability; instruments features for deeper analytics.
Partners with product managers, designers and other engineers to balance user needs and constraints.
Prioritises high-impact opportunities and clarifies priorities and sequencing.
Aligns work with Wikimedia Mission and Values.