Senior Software Engineer, iOS (Contract) (Fully Remote)

Wikimedia Foundation; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Wikimedia Foundation is a remote-first nonprofit operating Wikipedia and related projects. We seek a software engineer to deliver medium complexity initiatives from discovery to delivery, with a focus on improving mobile Wikipedia experiences for a global, multilingual audience on iOS.

You will lead system design for medium-sized projects, build accessible, scalable components, and collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to balance user needs with

Responsibilities

• Deliver medium complexity initiatives from technical discovery through delivery.
• Break down initiatives into features, drive estimation and manage scope.
• Identify risks early and help the team make pragmatic tradeoffs.
• Improve mobile Wikipedia product experiences for a global, multilingual audience on iOS.
• Lead system design for medium-sized projects.
• Design and build accessible, adaptable, scalable components.
• Consistently build software that is easy to test, observe and debug.
• Instrument features enabling deeper analysis by Product Analysts.
• Partner with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers.
• Shape pragmatic solutions balancing user needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.

Job description

• Deliver medium complexity initiatives from technical discovery through delivery.
• Break down initiatives into features, drive estimation and manage scope.
• Identify risks early and help the team make pragmatic tradeoffs.

Implementation:

• Improve mobile Wikipedia product experiences for a global, multilingual audience on iOS.
• Lead system design for medium-sized projects.
• Design and build accessible, adaptable, scalable components.

Quality, testing and observability:

• Consistently build software that is easy to test, observe and debug.
• Instrument features enabling deeper analysis by Product Analysts.

Cross-functional collaboration:

• Partner with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers.
• Shape pragmatic solutions balancing user needs, technical constraints, and delivery timelines.

Wikimedia Foundation

The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit that operates Wikipedia and other free knowledge projects. As a remote-first charitable organization with staff in 40+ countries, we rely on donations and value a diverse, inclusive workforce.