Hello folks,
we have 12 open positions in Wikimedia engineering right now, and a few more will go up in coming weeks. If you have connections, we'd appreciate your help hiring for these roles, forwarding this note to appropriate listservs, tweeting it, etc.
The full listing is at http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings , but here are some key roles that we need help with:
1) Product Managers: We're looking for great people to act as product owners for three very important initiatives:
- New editor engagement: helping Wikimedia to attract, nurture and retain new contributors. - Analytics: supporting the development of systems and tools for measuring our impact. - Mobile: helping us reach hundreds of millions of people on mobile devices and engaging hundreds of thousands of them to contribute in useful ways.
The product manager role at WMF entails grooming and prioritizing the product backlog, engaging with the Wikimedia community, commissioning and organizing research, hands-on testing, but also helping with across-the-board priorities triage for ongoing product development.
These folks don't have to be product managers by trade, but they need to be comfortable negotiating compromise while holding the product vision. They need to treat engineers as equal partners, and be excellent communicators. Ideally they have strong domain expertise relevant to their focus area.
We have two of these currently posted: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Product_Manager_(Features) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Product_Manager_(Analytics)
The mobile one will go up soon, and we'll refine the definition further. But please use these as reference points for now.
2) Analytics Engineers: We're hiring for two systems engineers to build out our analytics infrastructure. What exists so far is still fairly rudimentary, so we need to build scalable logging and tracking systems for various purposes, e.g.
- geographic breakdown of access and editing activity - usage data for specific features; A/B testing of features - search activity, real-time editor retention measures, new activity visualizations, and more ..
The ideal candidate here likely is someone who's very strong building out large scale distributed systems, and has experience with NoSQL technologies, distributed computing, etc.
The relevant JD is here: http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Systems_Engineer_-_Data_Ana...
3) A strong QA Lead who can help us write and perform test plans with shoestring and duct tape, i.e. using a combination of test automation, work with outside vendors, and volunteer-driven testing to strengthen our product quality. The relevant JD is here:
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/QA_Lead
4) Strong frontend and backend engineers: for features development, code review, deployment and release management support, and so forth. Demonstrable open source experience is always a major plus, and while PHP is learnable, not being predisposed against it helps. :-)
http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_Frontend...) http://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Job_openings/Software_Developer_Backend_...)
Your outreach and support is always appreciated.
All best, Erik