Job Description
DirectEd Development prides itself on delivering transformative, cost-effective and scalable education for high-potential young adults across Africa.
We are now opening up our program for outlier talents to join DirectEd’s transformative program as trainees, a program that gives you opportunities to tutor and lead younger students, build a variety of diverse products for DirectEd’s internal use and for clients whilst simultaneously engaging in advanced upskilling in state-of-the-art areas such as machine learning, cybersecurity and blockchain development.
This paid role suits early-career developers with 1-2 years of engineering experience and outstanding communication and leadership skills.
Objectives
- The Trainee Program has 2 on-the-job training components alongside the advanced training program we expect our Junior Tutors and Engineers to take part in. Together, they form a holistic program preparing the Trainee for a high-paying career as a remote IT professional working with European and US tech companies. Read more:
- The Advanced Training Program has several specialisation paths, at the moment the two are: Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence. As a Trainee, you will have to choose one of these.
Responsibilities
- See Junior Tutor and Junior Engineer.
- April - July: focus on our own development needs and on Tutoring students taking part in our 3-month-long DirectEd Bootcamp, DevOps and Product Management training (remote). Time split: 40/30/30. Probationary period, part-time
- August - October: Lead internship teams, engineering work of DirectEd’s website and Advanced Training Program. Time split: 70/20/10. Full time
- November - March: Lead internship teams, engineering work of DirectEd’s website and Advanced Training Program. Time split: 40/20/30.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Hard Skills
- Full stack web development experience using MERN Stack.
- Strong knowledge of Javascript.
- Familiar with version control systems such as GIT
- A strong understanding of Software development methodologies and Programming paradigms.
Soft skills