Remote Remote (Global) Employment USD 113,082 – 175,725 / year

Wikimedia Foundation is hiring a Senior Software Engineer, iOS

Responsibilities

  • Leads the execution of moderately complex technical initiatives from discovery to delivery, with guidance, by defining features, estimating effort, and managing scope.
  • Proactively flags potential risks and supports balanced decisions across quality, speed, maintainability, and user impact.
  • Enhances the iOS experience of a widely used knowledge application for a diverse, international audience.
  • Designs system architecture for mid-scale projects and develops components that are accessible, flexible, and scalable.
  • Builds and refines software systems to be testable, observable, and easy to debug.
  • Implements feature instrumentation to support in-depth analysis by data specialists.
  • Collaborates with product, design, analytics, and engineering teams to develop practical solutions aligned with user needs and technical realities.
  • Anticipates significant technical opportunities and risks over a quarterly timeline and helps define team priorities and sequencing.
  • Keeps team members aligned around goals, capacity, and expected outcomes.
  • Supports the professional growth and effectiveness of peers and junior engineers.
  • Provides mentorship through code reviews, technical design input, pair programming, delegation of ownership, and sound engineering judgment.
  • Fosters a culture where team members feel comfortable asking questions and voicing concerns.
  • Elevates team practices in code review, design, testing, documentation, accessibility, observability, and decision-making, promoting transparency and collaboration.
  • Plans tasks with consideration of upstream and downstream dependencies.
  • Contributes to hiring efforts and the onboarding of new team members.
  • Ensures consistent delivery of features with support from team leads.

Work Arrangement

Remote (Worldwide)

Other

At least four hours of your workday must fall between 14:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC.

About company
Wikimedia Foundation
The nonprofit organization that operates Wikipedia and the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects. It hosts Wikipedia and the Wikimedia projects, builds software experiences for reading, contributing, and sharing Wikimedia content, supports the volunteer communities and partners who make Wikimedia possible, and advocates for policies that enable Wikimedia and free knowledge to thrive.
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Job Details
Department App Growth team within the Core Experiences engineering group
Category mobile
Posted 6 days ago