Senior Android Engineer — Remote, Global Knowledge Growth

Wikimedia Foundation; Iowa; Remote; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

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 remote role requires daily collaboration between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC to align with a global team.

You will lead Android design for medium projects, optimize performance, and collaborate across product, design, and engineering to deliver accessible, scalable experiences for a multilingual audience.

Qualifications

• 5–10+ years of professional Android app development experience.
• Strong proficiency with Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
• Experience optimizing Android performance for diverse conditions.
• Experience adding WebView-wrapped experiences to native apps.
• Experience maintaining cross‑platform mobile applications.
• Experience building mobile games or interactive experiences.
• Familiarity with Wikipedia content systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress).
• Experience scaling small engineering teams with agentic coding approaches.
• MediaWiki or Wikimedia project experience is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Identify risks early and help tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Improve Android app experiences for a global multilingual audience; lead system design for medium projects.
• Build testable, observable, debuggable software; instrument features for analysis.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to balance needs and constraints.
• Proactively identify high-impact opportunities and clarify priorities/time sequencing.
• Commitment to Wikimedia Foundation's mission and values.

Skills

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Architectural patterns

Android performance optimization

WebView in native apps

Cross‑platform mobile apps

Mobile games / interactive experiences

Data science / ML / AI familiarity

MediaWiki / Wikimedia content systems

Agentic coding

Education

Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, MIS, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)

Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects

Job description

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 daily collaboration between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC to align with a global team.

You will lead Android design for medium projects, optimize performance, and collaborate across product, design, and engineering to deliver accessible, scalable experiences for a multilingual audience.