Wikimedia Foundation · 1 day ago
Engineering Manager - Feature Engineering
United States
Full-time
Remote
Mid, Senior Level
$128K/yr - $201K/yr
3+ years exp
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Responsibilities
Collaborating with your team and cross-functional stakeholders to plan, prioritize, and delegate work, balancing project goals with technical requirements and team skillsets.
Driving execution–ensuring projects are on track, key performance metrics are being met, and work is being actively unblocked.
Communicating proactively on progress, risks, and outcomes to stakeholders.
Ensuring the engineering team is engaged and productive, and understands the big picture of the project and how their efforts contribute to it.
Coaching your team, conducting performance reviews, providing career guidance, and building a professional and inclusive work culture.
Managing risk and succession planning for the project, documenting and implementing lifecycle management and best practices for the software we build.
Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers with the goal of quickly making them productive and engaged members of your team.
Participating in strategic direction-setting, team formation, and staffing allocation.
Qualification
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Required
3-5 years of experience as an engineering manager or equivalent experience
Technical expertise in fullstack web development
Experience working with engineering teams with a focus on building user-facing web applications and services.
An established track record and prior success in working with a multicultural, distributed team.
Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
Excellent interpersonal skills–the ability to interact constructively and develop productive working relationships with management, peers, direct reports, and communities, including non-technical staff.
Experience with open source development methodologies and open source community.
Robust analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills with the ability to deliver on detail as well as strategy.
Must be comfortable with evolving requirements and priorities in a dynamic environment.
Preferred
Experience with remote work and the level of engagement and communication it takes to build a geographically distributed team that is functional and healthy
Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems and platforms and managing the risks and opportunities associated with them.
Alignment with our mission and values.
Resilience—we work on new and interesting problems in public and collaborative ways.
Working together for outcomes, and being willing to change course.
Sharing a culture of constructive criticism and respect.
Experience editing Wikipedia or with the Wikipedia, Wikidata, or Wikimedia Commons communities or other collaborative enterprises.
Familiarity with MediaWiki.
Experience supporting and leading teams developing Web-scale deployments in javascript and PHP.
Company
Wikimedia Foundation
Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.
501-1000 employees
H1B Sponsorship
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Trends of Total Sponsorships
2023 (4)
2022 (3)
2021 (2)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
$158.98MKey Investors
Alfred P. Sloan FoundationCraig Newmark PhilanthropiesGoogle.org
2020-01-01Grant· $2.1M
2019-09-10Grant· $2.5M
2019-01-22Grant· $1.1M
Leadership Team
Lisa Gruwell
Chief Advancement Officer and Deputy to the CEO
Janeen Uzzell
Chief Operating Officer
Recent News
2024-12-04
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