Join the LibreOffice Team as a Paid Developer focusing on RTL/CTL/CJK languages, full-time, remote (m/f/d)
2023-11-20Mike SaundersLove LibreOffice development? Want to turn your passion into a paid job? We are The Document Foundation (TDF), the non-profit entity behind LibreOffice. We’re passionate about free software, the open source culture and about bringing new companies and people with fresh ideas into our community.
To improve language support features in LibreOffice, the office productivity suite for over 200 million users around the globe, we’re searching for a developer (m/f/d) to start work (from home) as soon as possible. This is what you’ll do:
- Work on the LibreOffice codebase (mostly C++)
- Focus (initially) on right-to-left (RTL), complex text layout (CTL) and CJK (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) languages in the LibreOffice code
- Fix bugs, implement new features, and improve language support in LibreOffice
What we want from you:
- Very good C++ development skills
- Proven experience working on either RTL/CTL and/or CJK topics, or both
- Good understanding of Unicode and internationalization (i18n)
- Good understanding of text rendering and font issues
- Proven contributions to FOSS projects (show us your repos!)
- Good team-playing skills
- Experience with LibreOffice development is a plus
