Senior Android Engineer - Remote (Kotlin, Jetpack)

Wikimedia Foundation; New Jersey; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to advance the App Experience and App Growth teams. This fully remote role requires overlapping hours with 15:00–21:00 UTC and focuses on building scalable Android experiences for a multilingual global audience.

The engineer will design medium‑sized projects, optimize performance, and collaborate with product and design teams to ship high‑quality features that support Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and 5–10+ years of professional Android experience.
• Strong Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose skills and Android architecture knowledge.
• Experience optimizing Android performance for diverse devices and conditions.
• Experience adding webview-wrapped experiences to existing native apps.
• Experience maintaining cross‑platform mobile applications and mobile games.
• Familiarity with Wikipedia-like data sources or CMS tools (MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress).

Responsibilities

• Identify risks early and balance quality, velocity, maintainability, and user impact.
• Lead Android system design for medium-sized projects and build scalable components.
• Ensure testability, observability, and easy debugging; instrument features for analytics.
• Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers.
• Help prioritise work with the team across engagement timelines.
• Uphold the Wikimedia Foundation's mission and values.

Skills

Android development

Kotlin

XML

Jetpack Compose

Performance optimization

Webview integration

Cross‑platform mobile

Mobile games

Data science / AI familiarity

Agentic coding

CMS familiarity (MediaWiki, Drupal, WP

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science / MIS / STEM

Master's or Doctorate in Computer Science or STEM

Tools

MediaWiki

Drupal

WordPress

Job description

Wikimedia Foundation is seeking a Senior Software Engineer, Android to advance the App Experience and App Growth teams. This fully remote role requires overlapping hours with 15:00–21:00 UTC and focuses on building scalable Android experiences for a multilingual global audience.

The engineer will design medium‑sized projects, optimize performance, and collaborate with product and design teams to ship high‑quality features that support Wikipedia and Wikimedia projects.