Schoolhouse.world | Full-stack web developer | FULL-TIME | REMOTE (primarily U.S. time zones) | https://schoolhouse.world
We are a non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan (founder of Khan Academy) with the mission of connecting the world through learning. Our peer tutoring platform empowers students everywhere with free online tutoring over Zoom. We've hosted 30k+ tutoring sessions so far and are just getting started.
One week you might be building a new full-stack assessments feature for tutors and learners around the world, and the next you might be ensuring our database and backend infrastructure can scale to support hundreds of thousands of users.
— Qualifications: Have 1-3 years of software engineering experience (across internships or full-time positions) and can hit the ground running. Care about making education more accessible and equitable. Thrive in a fast-paced environment.
— $: Competitive salary with benefits.
— tl;dr: Foundational role in a mission-oriented startup leading a movement in peer tutoring.
Schoolhouse.world | Founding product designers | REMOTE | FULL-TIME and INTERNS | https://schoolhouse.world
We are a new non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan with the mission of connecting the world through learning. Our peer tutoring platform empowers students everywhere with free online tutoring over Zoom. It's still the early days — we currently have a couple thousand learners from 40+ countries, with plans to grow this platform to millions.
We are looking for a founding designer for our small, fully remote team. Our current platform was quickly built on Coda to respond to the pandemic, so we are looking for someone who is ready to take the vision we have developed in these last six months and bring it to life as a custom web app.
— Core responsibilities: Design our web app from the ground up––from UX architecture, to wireframes, to detailed prototypes.
— Qualifications: Demonstrated success creating easy and delightful web/mobile experiences, from end-to-end.
— $: Competitive salary.
— tl;dr: Foundational role in a mission-oriented startup leading a movement in peer tutoring.
Schoolhouse.world | Full-stack web developer & designers | REMOTE | FULL-TIME and INTERNS | https://schoolhouse.world
We are a new non-profit startup founded by Sal Khan with the mission of connecting the world through learning. Our peer tutoring platform empowers students everywhere with free online tutoring over Zoom. It's still the early days — we currently have a couple thousand learners from 40+ countries, with plans to grow this platform to millions.
We are looking to hire a small, fully remote team of full stack engineers and designers. Our first version was quickly built on Coda to respond to the pandemic, but we are now developing a new web app from scratch. We want people who thrive in a fast-paced environment and can do some of everything: designing the architecture of a web app, writing algorithms, crafting CSS media queries, deploying and scaling on AWS, etc.
— Stack: Currently JavaScript, Node, GraphQL, React, MongoDB, AWS. We’re early and nothing is set in stone. You will shape this.
— Qualifications: Full stack development, with scalability, devops, and security experience a huge plus. Can build things from scratch. Excited to learn anything and everything.
— $: Competitive salary.
— tl;dr: Foundational role in a mission-oriented startup leading a movement in peer tutoring.
Regarding the author's point that you "need to narrow down and focus on a small enough splice, such that when you tug at its strings, you have a real chance to get noticed" — reminds me of a friend who sends the occasionally newsletter.
Rather than boasting a large email list, the friend signs off every email with the line, "sent to 27 subscribers." You have no idea who those 26 other people are, but you know you were hand-picked. This is not a list you sign up for, but it's one where you are likely to pay attention.