Senior Android Engineer - Remote & Global Knowledge Platform

Wikimedia Foundation; Georgia; Remote; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to join the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. You will design and build high-quality Android features for a global, multilingual audience while contributing to performance and reliability.

This remote-first role requires collaboration with product managers, designers, and data scientists, and offers opportunities to influence the mobile experience of Wikipedia and related

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and 5-10+ years related professional experience with significant experience building Android applications.
• Strong professional experience and proficiency with Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose, and familiarity with architectural patterns in Android
• Experience of Android performance optimisation techniques to ensure smooth, responsive, and high-performing applications under a variety of conditions.
• Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to existing native mobile apps (iOS or Android)
• Experience in maintaining cross-platform mobile applications.
• Experience building mobile games or other interactive mobile experiences.
• Experience with data science, machine learning, and/or AI (e.g., Familiarity with Wikipedia / wikitext / markdown editing or content management systems (e.g., MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress)
• Experience with leveraging agentic coding to scale the work of small engineering teams.
• Bachelor's, master's, or doctorate degree in computer science, management information systems, or STEM field (or equivalent certification)
• Prior experience with MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects.

Responsibilities

• Identifies risks early, and helps the team make pragmatic tradeoffs across quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Implementation - Improving the mobile Wikipedia product experiences that serve a global, multilingual audience on Android. Leads system design for medium-sized projects and can design and build accessible, adaptable, scalable components.
• Quality, testing and observability - Consistently builds software that is easy to test, observe and debug. Instruments features that enable deeper analysis by Product Analysts.
• Cross-functional collaboration - Partners with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to shape pragmatic solutions that balance user needs, technical constraints, platform expectations, and delivery timelines.
• Prioritisation - Proactively identifies high-impact technical opportunities and risks across the engagement timeframe, works with the team to clarify priorities and sequencing.
• Commitment to the Foundation's Mission and Values

Skills

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Android performance optimization

Webview experiences

Cross-platform mobile apps

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related field

Master's degree in CS or related field

Tools

Android Studio

Gradle

Job description

The Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to join the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group. You will design and build high-quality Android features for a global, multilingual audience while contributing to performance and reliability.

This remote-first role requires collaboration with product managers, designers, and data scientists, and offers opportunities to influence the mobile experience of Wikipedia and related