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Responsibilities Deliver medium-complexity initiatives from technical discovery through implementation, breaking work into features, estimating, managing scope, and identifying risks. Design and build accessible, adaptable, and scalable Android components for Wikipedia’s mobile product experiences. Lead system design for medium-sized projects and optimize Android application performance for smooth and responsive experiences. Build software that is testable, observable, and debuggable, including instrumentation for Product Analysts. Collaborate with product managers, designers, analysts, and native app engineers to shape pragmatic solutions. Prioritize technical opportunities, risks, sequencing, team capacity, and outcomes across the engagement. Follow standards for code review, technical design, testing, documentation, accessibility, observability, and decision-making. Plan work with awareness of upstream and downstream effects and contribute to knowledge sharing and team effectiveness. Requirements Bachelor’s degree and 5–10+ years of related professional experience, including significant experience building Android applications. Strong professional experience and proficiency with Kotlin, XML, Jetpack Compose, and Android architectural patterns. Experience optimizing Android performance to provide smooth, responsive, and high-performing applications. Experience working autonomously in a self-driven, lean environment. Commitment to the Wikimedia Foundation’s mission and values. Preferred qualifications include experience with webview-wrapped experiences, cross-platform mobile applications, mobile games, data science, machine learning, AI, prompt engineering, Jupyter notebooks, Wikipedia or wikitext, MediaWiki, Drupal, WordPress, agentic coding, Wikimedia projects, and open source contributions. Preferred education includes a bachelor’s, master’s, or doctorate in computer science, management information systems, or a STEM field, or equivalent certification. Benefits Fully remote work arrangement at a global organization. At least four hours of each workday must occur between 15:00 UTC and 21:00 UTC. Contract position with hiring available only in the listed US states, territories, and countries. Non-US employees are hired through a local third-party Employer of Record and must have current work authorization in their location. Applicants can contact recruiting for accommodation support during the application process.