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Kuwait Jobs Today: Wikimedia Foundation announces new job opportunities. Are you looking for job opportunities in Kuwait? Wikimedia Foundation announces the opening of recruitment for many jobs in various specializations in Kuwaiton today’s date. These opportunities are available to all nationalities. Learn about the available jobs and how to apply through the following advertisement.
- Architect, develop, test, and deploy new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by the Wikimedia community
- Partner with Foundation staff and volunteers on software design, development, testing and evaluation of potential technical solutions
- Help identify and implement best practices in engineering processes across the team
- Ensure positive and constructive discussions with the community and the Foundation
- Work and communicate effectively within a small team distributed across multiple time zones
- Actively share knowledge and
- Education and/or experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript)
- Interest in front-end web application development skills
- Experience with collaborative open-source communities
- Openness to working with a diverse and geographically distributed team
- Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online
- Bachelor’s degree in CS or related field or the equivalent in work-related experience
- Collaborative – We love to have regular pair programming sessions to solve problems together and would be happy to see you enjoy them too.
- Flexible – This team works on many different features and codebases. Being able to adapt your skills to the task and learn quickly is important.
- User-focused – Our primary goal is to provide our users with tools and features that cannot get without our help.
- Open-minded – The team is comprised of people from several different countries and cultures. Be open to new ways of communicating and working.
- Developing, testing, and deploying new features, improvements and upgrades to various systems and tools used by administrators and staff.
- Writing multilingual, accessible, and performant user interfaces using PHP, JavaScript, VueJS, and CSS.
- Documenting your contributions to our codebase in our technical documentation and our features’ documentation.
- Contributing to projects that require handling sensitive data and private information, complying with privacy and security regulations.
- Providing support in abuse investigations on our platform, helping identify sources and causes of incidents, and proposing ideas to mitigate their impact.
- Developing expertise in the Trust and Safety area, which includes, security, privacy, abuse mitigation, content moderation and legal compliance.
- Extending the capabilities of the MediaWiki stack to serve diverse community needs by incorporating possibilities that are offered by new tooling or technical advances.
- Working across teams to proactively reduce technical debt by refactoring code, updating testing frameworks, and reviewing code from other engineers.
- 3+ years of related professional or volunteering experience in software engineering roles, including frontend and backend development, with an emphasis on backend.
- Experience with Object-Oriented development using a scripting language (such as PHP, Python, Ruby, or JavaScript). Most of our work is in PHP and JavaScript.
- Experience converting design mockups into functional components, incorporating performance and accessibility into the features using well-documented and readable code.
- Focused software engineering: writing unit and integration tests, proactively addressing security and code review feedback, and thoughtfully balancing tradeoffs.
- Strong written communication skills as our collaboration largely happens online, on chats, wikis, documents and tickets.
- The desire to make meaningful contributions to knowledge equity, free culture, and open access.
- An emphasis on communicating clearly in both synchronous and asynchronous channels.
- The willingness to participate in technical discussions, proposing solutions to technical challenges, participating in code reviews and receiving feedback.
- An eagerness and curiosity to solve technical problems, trying things out and investigating issues, and supporting the work of others.
- The skill to effectively work with documentation, writing clearly and concisely, and navigating existing documentation in search for answers.
- A sensitivity for the problems we are solving, empathy for our users, and the tact to handle the content and information we process.
To apply for the aforementioned jobs, you can follow these steps:
- To go to the application page. (Job opportunities for Wikimedia Foundation)
- Click on a job title to view details.
- Please click the Easy Apply button at the top of the page.
- Enter the required information in the pop-up screens.
- Click Review to review the form.
- Job source: The official website of the company
- Posted Date: 23-7-2024 (Please check the date before applying).
- Required Nationalities: All nationalities.
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