Do you want to be challenged and work with awesome people who you can trust to get the job done?
Do you want to work on a product that people love to use and improves their lives?

Wikia is a collaborative publishing platform that enables communities to discover, create, and share content on any topic in any language. Engineers at Wikia do more than just put out fires and fix bugs. They build new and amazing features for one of the largest user-generated media company from the Top 40 site (Quantcast) with 310,000 passionate communities attracting more than 63,5 million global unique visitors each month.

For our office in Poznań we are looking to fill the position:

Community Engineer

The ideal candidate is able to manage tasks and priorities dynamically, as well as willing to learn and try new things. Effective and efficient communication skills are also important.

Responsibilities

• Maintaining a complex system running MediaWiki and various extensions
• Helping with problem assessment and bug reporting
• Developing features to assist & automate Community Support
• Leading communication between Developers, Community Support and Users
• Limited data mining
• Ad hoc bug fixing

Requirements

• Modern web standards: HTML5, CSS3, you know... the works ;)
• PHP & JavaScript
• Basic backend stuff (Linux & MySQL)
• How to effectively talk to humans in fluent English

Bonus points

You get bonus points if you:

• understand this:
  
$('#cs').css('left', Math.min($('#cs').get(0).offsetLeft, ($(window).width() -
$('#cs').get(0).offsetLeft - $('#cs').width() - 10)) + 'px');
• understand this:
  [[foo|bar]]? {{sofixit}} --~~~~
• are a user
  (give us a link to your user page on Wikia, Wikipedia or another wiki site)

Benefits & Perks

Wikia offers a salary of 4000–8000 PLN per month (gross, depending on experience), plus stock options. You’ll also get to expand your knowledge and skills with at least two fully paid professional conferences as well as two visits to our San Francisco office per year, team lunches, company trips and full pantry complete with delicious coffee, coke and cookies.

And of course, there’s plenty of testing devices to play with!

How to apply

Contact information:

Agnieszka Chojnowska

hr-pl@wikia-inc.com

Please send your CV in English.

And include the following legal gibberish somewhere in your CV:

Wyrażam zgodę na przetwarzanie moich danych osobowych dla potrzeb niezbędnych przy realizacji procesu rekrutacji zgodnie z Ustawą z dn. 29.08.97 o Ochronie Danych Osobowych (DZ.U. nr 133, poz. 883).

If you're an active Wikipedia or Wikia editor, please enclose your user name in the resume.