Director of Engineering

April 1

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Wikimedia Foundation

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About the Wikimedia Foundation

Non-Profit • Free knowledge • Open Source Culture • Internet • Technology

501 - 1000 employees

💰 $2.5M Grant on 2019-09

📋 Description

• Leading a group of teams working to build, maintain, and improve the capabilities of MediaWiki, the open-source software platform that powers Wikipedia and other sites. • Living and demonstrating our values by fostering a working environment and team relationships that are aligned in our mission, welcoming to everyone who shares our vision and values, curious and open to new ideas, focused on delivering great work, and constantly improving. • Hiring, coaching, developing, and empowering engineering managers and highly senior individual contributors to enable their success in solving problems, delivering on team objectives, and coaching and developing their team members. • Engineering delivery of the teams in the MediaWiki Engineering group. • Collaborating with the Director of Product for MediaWiki on roadmaps and technical strategy. • Participating with other senior managers & directors across the department to establish strategic plans, align towards common objectives, and solve complex problems. • Participating in organizational development of methods, techniques, and evaluation criteria for projects, programs, and people to ensure the greatest impact for the Foundation. • Planning, staffing, budgeting, and managing expense priorities within the cost center for MediaWiki Engineering. • Collaborating and taking joint responsibility with fellow Engineering leaders to ensure the stability, reliability and optimal performance of production environments and services.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience leading teams that manage software engineering lifecycle processes and services in an organization with 100+ software engineers. • Experience leading or managing a backend platform organization. • Experience managing organizational interaction with a community of volunteer technical contributors. • Experience building and leading diverse, multi-national and remote-first teams. • Proven success at all stages of the engineering process and product lifecycle, leading to significant, measurable impact. • Experience with managing managers. • Ability to travel up to 2-3 times a year. • Ability to work flexible hours with an organization spread across several time zones.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive, equitable salaries • Inclusive and equitable workplace • Encouragement for diverse backgrounds to apply