The Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit organization that builds and maintains the infrastructure behind free, multilingual knowledge online. It hosts Wikipedia, where volunteers around the world create, edit, and verify articles, and supports collaborative projects designed to make knowledge more representative of human diversity. Funded primarily by donations, the Foundation works to keep free and open knowledge accessible to everyone. Its work spans nonprofit, education, and media contexts.
Senior Android Software Engineer (Contract, US Remote) – Wikimedia Foundation
Build and improve Android experiences for Wikipedia readers around the world. Deliver accessible, scalable mobile features for Wikimedia’s free knowledge projects.
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RemoteContractSeniorEnglish RequiredAndroid EngineerSoftware EngineerDescription
- Contribute to the App Experience and App Growth teams in the Core Experiences engineering group.
- Take medium-complexity projects from technical discovery through delivery.
- Turn initiatives into features, estimate effort, manage scope, assess risks, and make practical tradeoffs.
- Enhance Wikipedia’s mobile experience for a global, multilingual Android audience.
- Guide system design for medium-sized projects and create accessible, adaptable, scalable components.
- Develop software that is testable, observable, and easy to debug.
- Add instrumentation to features so Product Analysts can conduct deeper analysis.
- Work with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers.
- Spot technical opportunities and risks, clarify priorities and sequencing, and align teams on outcomes.
- Apply standards for code review, technical design, testing, documentation, accessibility, observability, and decision-making.
- Plan work with attention to its upstream and downstream effects.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree and 5–10+ years of relevant professional experience, including substantial Android application development.
- Professional proficiency with Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose.
- Familiarity with Android architectural patterns.
- Experience optimizing Android performance.
- Ability to work independently in a lean environment.
- Commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission and values.
- Availability for at least four overlapping work hours between 15:00 and 21:00 UTC.
- Applicants working outside the US must have current work authorization in their hiring location.
- Preferred experience includes webview-based native apps, cross-platform mobile apps, mobile games or interactive experiences, data science, machine learning or AI, Wikipedia, wikitext, Markdown or content management systems, agentic coding, MediaWiki or Wikimedia projects, and open-source contributions. A bachelor’s, master’s or doctoral degree in computer science, MIS or STEM (or equivalent certification) is also preferred.
Benefits
- Fully remote work.
- Pay adjusted to the hiring country for applicants outside the US.
- Compensation determined by skills, experience, and location.
- Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace.
- Disability accommodations available during the application process.