Senior Software Engineer, Android – Contract

🔥 13 hours ago

🌵 Arizona, California, +28 more states – Remote

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💵 $56 - $87 / hour

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🟠 Senior

🤖 Android Engineer

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Wikimedia Foundation

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2003

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

📱 Media

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

Non-profit • Education • Media

Wikimedia Foundation is a nonprofit charitable organization dedicated to the growth, development, and distribution of free, multilingual content. It provides the essential infrastructure for free knowledge, including hosting Wikipedia, the free online encyclopedia that is created, edited, and verified by a global community of volunteers. Supported primarily through donations, Wikimedia Foundation promotes collaborative projects that aim to share knowledge reflecting human diversity and strives to protect everyone's right to access free and open knowledge.

📋 Description

• Support the App Experience and App Growth teams within the Core Experiences engineering group • Deliver medium-complexity initiatives from technical discovery through delivery • Break initiatives into features, drive estimation, manage scope, identify risks, and make pragmatic tradeoffs • Improve mobile Wikipedia experiences for a global, multilingual Android audience • Lead system design for medium-sized projects and build accessible, adaptable, scalable components • Build software that is testable, observable, and debuggable • Instrument features to enable deeper analysis by Product Analysts • Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers • Identify technical opportunities and risks, clarify priorities and sequencing, and align teams on outcomes • Follow standards for code review, technical design, testing, documentation, accessibility, observability, and decision-making • Plan work with awareness of upstream and downstream effects

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 5-10+ years of related professional experience, with significant experience building Android applications • Strong professional experience and proficiency with Kotlin, XML, and Jetpack Compose • Familiarity with architectural patterns in Android • Experience with Android performance optimization techniques • Experience working in a self-driven, lean environment • Commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation's mission and values • At least four hours of the workday between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC • For non-US employees, current work authorization in the hiring location • Preferred: experience with webview-wrapped native mobile apps, cross-platform mobile applications, mobile games or interactive experiences, data science/machine learning/AI, Wikipedia/wikitext/markdown or content management systems, agentic coding, MediaWiki/Wikimedia projects, open-source contributions, and an optional bachelor's/master's/doctorate in computer science, MIS, or STEM (or equivalent certification)

🏖️ Benefits

• Fully remote work • Pay adjusted to the country of hire for applicants outside the US • Compensation based on skills, experience, and location • Equal opportunity and inclusive workplace • Disability accommodations during the application process