Responsibilities:

• Ensure students are technically prepared for success in their job search and on the job. 
• Deliver one-on-one technical coaching and support to students, developing their coding skills and understanding of and ability to effectively communicate about difficult technical concepts.
• Intentionally push students to become increasingly autonomous engineers; support them in reading & accurately interpreting documentation and error messages, improve their debugging skills, and become courageous coders.
• Provide expert technical and project management guidance to small groups of students building exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies.
• Accurately and proactively evaluate, track & communicate student technical progress. This includes grading students’ work, delivering feedback, and modeling successful behavior.
• Build and execute effective individual student remediation plans to ensure that all of our students become successful software engineers.
• Identify and respond to cohort-wide remediation needs, crafting supplemental lectures & lesson plans addressing cohort-specific needs.
• Contribute to curriculum initiatives that address popular technologies.
• Contribute to local evangelism and enrollment initiatives, such as attendance at meetups, speaking at conferences, leading workshops, etc.
• Serve as a technical partner while collaborating with all other departments that ensure job search success.

Qualifications:

• Expert-level software engineer, particularly regarding Javascript knowledge, related emerging technologies, and relevant development tools
• Experience with industry-standard software development practices and methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Kanban
• Skilled at teaching in an immersive remote learning environment
• Skilled and engaging facilitator/lecturer
• Ability to analyze and model student progress and remove educational roadblocks
• Possesses a strong growth mindset: seeks feedback, admits to and learns from failure, autonomously learns and grows while seeking appropriate support from coworkers and manager
• Motivated by and derives satisfaction from high-ownership work environments and has a passion for education
• Aligned with our overall instructional philosophies
• Highly autonomous, conscientious, reliable, self-motivated and solution-oriented
• Strong collaboration skills, high self-awareness, flexible, open-minded and positive
• Empathetic and charismatic
• Able to work occasional evenings/Saturdays.

Experience:

• Completed a software engineering education program + 2 years relevant work experience; or,
• Holds a high school diploma + 4 years relevant work experience.