Full-Time Engineering Manager

SummaryThe Wikimedia Foundation is looking for an experienced Engineering Manager to lead our Testing Platform team.

Team Purpose: Provide the foundation for software engineers to self-service on quality practices by providing tools and frameworks to write tests and testing environments to execute them.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborating with team and stakeholders to plan, prioritize, delegate work, balance project goals with technical requirements and team skill sets.
• 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, understanding the big picture.
• Coaching team, conducting performance reviews, providing career guidance, building a professional and inclusive work culture.
• Managing risk and succession planning for the project, documenting and implementing lifecycle management and best practices.
• Interviewing, hiring, onboarding, and mentoring engineers to quickly make them productive and engaged members.

Skills and Experience:

• Several years of engineering experience, including management/leadership.
• Several years of hands-on experience developing, designing, reviewing web applications.
• Experience in building and operating resilient software systems and services using scalable infrastructure technologies (e.g. Kubernetes).
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills in English.
• Experience with multicultural, remote, and distributed teams.
• Robust analytical, problem-solving, and conceptual skills.
• Work flexible hours with core overlap time from 2-6 pm UTC.

Qualities:

• Alignment with mission and values.
• Experience with open source development methodologies and open source community.
• Excellent communication and follow-up skills.
• Experience with remote work, engagement, and communication to build a geographically distributed team.
• Experience with large-scale, global developer ecosystems and platforms.
• Resilience, working on new and interesting problems.
• Passionate about developing people and platforms, fostering a product-minded culture.

Additional Skills (Preferred):

• Experience working in platform teams and scaling impact across the organization.
• Experience editing Wikipedia or with Wikimedia communities.
• Familiarity with MediaWiki.

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