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Wikimedia Foundation · 1 day ago

Engineering Manager - Feature Engineering

Atlanta, GA

Full-time

Remote

Mid 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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Engineering managementFullstack web developmentUser-facing web applicationsOpen source developmentMediaWiki familiarityJavaScriptPHP

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

Glassdoor

3.9

Wikimedia Foundation encourages the development and distribution of free educational content with projects such as Wikipedia.

Founded in 2003

San Francisco, California, USA

501-1000 employees

http://wikimediafoundation.org

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