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 2-3 years of engineering experience and outsized ambition to grow in their leadership, communication and managerial capabilities.
Objectives
- The Trainee Program has 2 on-the-job training components alongside an advanced training program which we 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 about some of the different roles that Trainee may take on during tbis time:
- The position comes with generous stipends, depending on the Trainees previous experience and time commitment per week. It is part time initially. Range: $170-$400.
- Trainees have direct access to our CTO, Nicholas Hrynuik who has nearly 10 years experience building software with Silicon Valley startups.
Responsibilities
- See Junior Tutor and Tech Lead Trainee.
- Probationary period phase 1. Lead apprenticeship teams which entails DevOps, code reviews and pair programming/debugging sessions with students . 25h per week of core work and 5h of additional upskilling (3 months).
- Probationary period phase 2. Conditional on satisfactory performance: Lead apprenticeship teams which entails DevOps, code reviews and pair programming/debugging sessions with students . 50h per week (3 months) and 10 hours per week of advanced upskilling content expected.
Required Skills and Qualifications
Hard Skills
- Full stack web development experience using MERN Stack and NextJS. On occasion we seek other tech stacks too, such as C++/Unity, blockchain and Cloud.
- Strong knowledge of Javascript and Typescript
- Familiar with version control systems such as GIT
- A strong understanding of Software development methodologies and Programming paradigms.
Soft skills