Learning Equality | Full Stack Engineer | REMOTE (USA) or San Diego | Full-time
We're a cross-disciplinary team that believes in the transformative power of access to education. We're a nonprofit, we create open-source software, and our beneficiaries are in underserved communities such as rural schools, community centers, and refugee camps all over the world. We enable completely offline access (via local network, mobile app, and peer-to-peer/sneakernet distribution) to a wealth of free learning resources (things like Khan Academy) and tools to support students and educators.
We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer who identifies strongly with Learning Equality's mission to bring quality education to under-resourced communities around the world. We use Python/Django on the backend, and Vue.js on the frontend. Apply at: https://grnh.se/5b407e571us
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Learning Equality | Full-stack web developers & Python developers | San Diego | https://learningequality.org/ | ONSITE (preferred) or REMOTE | Full-time
# Who we are
We're a not-for-profit team that builds open-source educational software for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We believe in the transformative power of learning, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down barriers that prevent people from reaching their full potential.
We started 4 years ago with KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline-installable platform bundling Khan Academy content and our own student tracking tools, which is being used in nearly 200 countries and territories.
We're now in the process of releasing our second-generation platform, Kolibri (https://learningequality.org/kolibri/), which empowers users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, both online and offline. We're building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners. On the backend, we use Python/Django, and on the frontend we use Vue.js and (in one project) Backbone.js.
We recently received significant funding from Google.org to support our work (https://www.google.org/our-work/education/learning-equality/), and our team has doubled from 10 to 20 full-time staff in the past year. We're now building out further to support new initiatives, including a project for refugee education with UNHCR, and to continue to build towards our longer-term vision. It's an exciting period of growth, both for our team and for our impact, and there are lots of ways you could make a difference!
# Who you are
You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values (https://learningequality.org/about/values/). You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve the needs of a diverse set of users.
We're a nonprofit startup that builds open-source educational software for those with limited or no access to the Internet. We believe in the transformative power of learning, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down barriers preventing people from reaching their full potential. Our first platform, KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), has been used in over 175 countries.
We're now developing Kolibri (https://learningequality.org/kolibri/), which includes tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for HTML5 bundles, peer-to-peer device syncing, web-based visualizations for student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.
# Who you are
You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values.
You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve the needs of a diverse set of users.
# Positions
Frontend Web Developer: You have solid experience with web development using HTML5, JavaScript, modern JS frameworks (we use Vue.js), and CSS with pre-processors. You love building beautiful interfaces and collaborating with the UX team.
Python Developer / DevOps: You have skills and experience working with Python, in a variety of contexts. We use Django for the backend of Kolibri, and also leverage Python for automation of business processes, API/web scraping for pulling in new content, media processing/computer vision, and data analysis/machine learning.
We're a nonprofit startup that builds and supports open-source educational software for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We believe in the transformative power of learning, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down barriers preventing people from reaching their full potential.
We started 4 years ago with KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline-installable platform bundling Khan Academy content and our own student tracking tools. KA Lite has already been used in over 175 countries and territories.
We're now in the midst of developing a new platform, Kolibri (https://learningequality.org/kolibri/), that will empower users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, in both online and offline environments. We're building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.
# Who you are
You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values.
You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve the needs of a diverse set of users.
# Positions
Frontend Web Developer: You have solid experience with web development using HTML5, JavaScript, modern JS frameworks (we use Vue.js), and CSS with pre-processors. You love building beautiful interfaces and collaborating with the UX team.
Python Developer / DevOps: You have skills and experience working with Python, in a variety of contexts. We use Django for the backend of Kolibri, and also leverage Python for automation of business processes, API/web scraping for pulling in new content, media processing/computer vision, and data analysis/machine learning.
Additional _non-dev_ positions (Implementation/Partnerships and Content Managers) to be posted later this week.
# Benefits
- Salary at the same levels as other core team members
- Retirement plan with matching employer contributions
- Full health care, dental, and vision insurance
- Education fund to support ongoing professional development
- Flexible and generous vacation policy and work schedule
- Well-stocked, bottomless cabinet filled with snacks and Guayaki
- Working in sunny San Diego (coverage of basic relocation costs, if needed)
We’re a small nonprofit committed to bringing the online education revolution to the 60% of the world without Internet. We started 3 years ago with KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline-installable platform bundling Khan Academy content and our own student tracking tools in an easy to install bundle. KA Lite has already reached over 2.1 million learners in 160+ countries.
We’re now starting to work on our next-gen offline ed-tech platform, Kolibri (https://learningequality.org/kolibri/), which aims to incorporate not only a wider set of content from partners, with alignment to local standards, but also allow anyone to create their own videos and exercises to meet the needs of their local context.
Positions
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Full-stack Web Developer -- You will need to have some experience doing full-stack web development -- the specific stack we use is Javascript, Backbone.js, jQuery, HTML, CSS/LESS , Python and Django. We’re designing Kolibri as a small core app with the majority of user-facing features implemented as plugins. As an initial project, you’ll be working on creating a plugin that ports one of KA Lite’s features into Kolibri.
Executive Assistant/Office Manager -- You will have two roles - As “Executive Assistant”, you will be responsible for supporting core team members with communications, planning, drafting, and research. As “Office Manager”, you’ll be responsible for making sure the office runs smoothly, including handling mail, ordering supplies, organizing events and so forth. This is a combined role, with the exact job title and focus areas negotiable based on skills and interests.
Benefits
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- Salary at the same levels as other core team members
- Retirement plan with matching employer contributions
Learning Equality - Python/Django/Backbone developer - San Diego (full-time or intern) or remote (contractor)
## Highlights
High-impact nonprofit; open-source; international education; social justice; great working/learning environment.
## About us
Learning Equality is a recently formed nonprofit that builds and supports open-source (https://github.com/learningequality/) educational software designed to increase learning opportunities for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We do this work because we believe deeply in the transformative power that learning can have on people's lives, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down the barriers that prevent many people from reaching their full potential and living empowered lives.
We started out as a group of students volunteering on the open-source KA Lite project (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline version of Khan Academy, which we first announced publicly in December of 2012. An enthusiastic global response led to a flood of requests for support, features, and partnerships, and we soon realized we needed to establish a solid foundation to support the project and the longer-term vision, so we incorporated as a nonprofit in April of 2013. We have been fortunate enough to raise some funding to support our continued work, and now have 3 full-time employees, as well as a number of contractors and interns, alongside a community of volunteers and open-source contributors. We are leasing offices in the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space on the UC San Diego campus, and collaborate closely with researchers and students across the campus.
We're now looking to grow our core team by hiring someone who will help us to drive our mission and projects forward, playing a strong collaborative and leadership role in both the development process and in the organization as a whole. We have a lot we want to accomplish, and want to continue building a positive, dynamic, and diverse team to help ensure our vision flourishes.
## Our plans
KA Lite has now been installed thousands of times in over 130 countries (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/), in contexts as varied as low-income schools in India, orphanages in Cameroon, prisons across the United States, refugee programs in Lebanon, and First Nations community centers in northern Canada. We plan to continue developing KA Lite, adding features and improving the user experience, and supporting deployments around the world.
Next up, we are preparing for the development of a platform, building upon the KA Lite codebase, that will empower users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, in both online and offline environments. This will involve building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.
## About you
* You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values (https://learningequality.org/about/values/).
* You are comfortable in a leadership role, e.g. taking responsibility for a core component of a project, and mentoring students, interns, and contractors.
* You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve user needs.
* You have skills and experience with web development/design, hopefully using some subset of the following stack: Python, Django, HTML5, Javascript, Backbone.js, and CSS/LESS (visual design tools also a plus).
* FLE is still a small startup, and we each wear many hats, and thus experience in any of the following areas would be valued (though in no way required): Education (e.g. teaching), Networking (protocols, APIs, etc), Databases (schemas, efficiency, replication, etc), Hardware sourcing (finding providers, bulk ordering, build-to-order processes), Quality Assurance (automated and/or manual testing).
## About the job
* We're looking to fill a full-time position (likely starting with a 3-month trial contract, as negotiated), with a modest salary, 401(k) matching, and health care options. If you feel you might not yet have enough experience for the full-time position, but are excited about what we're doing, contact us anyway, as we have an internship program that could be a way to learn, and get your foot in the door!
* We offer flexible schedules and vacation time. We emphasize a healthy work-life balance, accomplishing as much as we can while also taking care of ourselves and our families, and having fun!
* Your exact title in the organization would be determined in collaboration with you, on the basis of the skills you bring to the table, and the focus of the role you'll be playing on the team. See our team page for some examples of current and past titles (https://learningequality.org/about/team/).
* You'd be working in sunny San Diego, at our offices on the lively UCSD campus. We can help out with relocation costs, and in certain cases we may be able to look at options for remote contract work if you're unable to move.
Cool! Yep, you can install it on anything that runs Python (it's all written in pure Python, with no libraries that have binary dependencies). We run it on Raspberry Pi's, netbooks, server racks, Sandisk Connect hotspot devices, old Pentium III's, and now (thanks to python-for-android) even standalone on Android devices (which should be released soon). We want to support any old, existing hardware, as well as the cheapest stuff available off the shelf today.
We'd be curious to hear what state this was in. KA Lite is being used in prisons all across Idaho, and many in Washington state, some in New Mexico, Virginia, and a few others. In some cases, this is grassroots. We're figuring out ways to help overcome institutional resistance to make sure it can be accessed by as many prisoners as possible.
We would love to answer any questions about KA Lite or Learning Equality, and where we're headed. I'll be on a plane for the next few hours, but others on the team can chime in and I can respond a bit later as well.
Learning Equality - Python/Django/Backbone OSS developer - San Diego (full-time or intern) or remote (contractor)
## About us
Learning Equality is a recently formed nonprofit that builds and supports open-source (https://github.com/learningequality/) educational software designed to increase learning opportunities for communities with limited or no access to the Internet. We do this work because we believe deeply in the transformative power that learning can have on people's lives, and are passionate about social justice and breaking down the barriers that prevent many people from reaching their full potential and living empowered lives.
We started out as a group of students volunteering on the open-source KA Lite project (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), an offline version of Khan Academy, which we first announced publicly in December of 2012. An enthusiastic global response led to a flood of requests for support, features, and partnerships, and we soon realized we needed to establish a solid foundation to support the project and the longer-term vision, so we incorporated as a nonprofit in April of 2013. We have been fortunate enough to raise some funding to support our continued work, and now have 3 full-time employees, as well as a number of contractors and interns, alongside a community of volunteers and open-source contributors. We are leasing space in the Qualcomm Institute Innovation Space on the UC San Diego campus, and collaborate closely with researchers and students across the campus.
We're now looking to grow our core team by hiring someone who will help us to drive our mission and projects forward, playing a strong collaborative and leadership role in both the development process and in the organization as a whole. We have a lot we want to accomplish, and want to continue building a positive, dynamic, and diverse team to help ensure our vision flourishes.
## Our plans
KA Lite has now been installed thousands of times in over 120 countries (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/), in contexts as varied as low-income schools in India, orphanages in Cameroon, prisons across the United States, refugee programs in Lebanon, and First Nations community centers in northern Canada. We plan to continue developing KA Lite, adding features and improving the user experience, and supporting deployments around the world.
Next up, we are preparing for the development of a platform, building upon the KA Lite codebase, that will empower users to create, curate, share, and learn from diverse forms of openly licensed content, in both online and offline environments. This will involve building tools for authoring videos and exercises, an app ecosystem for embedding and distributing HTML5 educational bundles, features for discovering and communicating with other devices peer-to-peer over a local network, interfaces and web-based visualizations for exploring student data, and systems for motivating, engaging, and guiding learners.
## About you
* You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values (https://learningequality.org/about/values/).
* You are comfortable in a leadership role, e.g. taking responsibility for a core component of a project, and mentoring students, interns, and contractors.
* You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve user needs.
* You have skills and experience with web development/design, hopefully using some subset of the following stack: Python, Django, HTML5, Javascript, Backbone.js, and CSS/LESS (visual design tools also a plus).
* FLE is still a small startup, and we each wear many hats, and thus experience in any of the following areas would be valued (though in no way required): Education (e.g. teaching), Networking (protocols, APIs, etc), Databases (schemas, efficiency, replication, etc), Hardware sourcing (finding providers, bulk ordering, build-to-order processes), Quality Assurance (automated and/or manual testing).
## About the job
* We're looking to fill a full-time position (possibly starting with a 3-month trial period contract, as negotiated), with a modest salary, 401(k) matching, and health care options. If you feel you might not yet have enough experience for the full-time position, but are excited about what we're doing, contact us anyway, as we have an internship program that could be a way to learn, and get your foot in the door!
* We offer flexible schedules and vacation time. We emphasize a healthy work-life balance, accomplishing as much as we can while also taking care of ourselves and our families, and having fun!
* Your exact title in the organization would be determined in collaboration with you, on the basis of the skills you bring to the table, and the focus of the role you'll be playing on the team. See our team page for some examples of current and past titles (https://learningequality.org/about/team/).
* You'd be working and living in sunny San Diego, at our offices on the lively UCSD campus. We can help out with relocation costs, and in certain cases we may be able to look at options for remote contract work if you're unable to move.
Learning Equality - San Diego - Python/Django and/or HTML/CSS/graphics - Nonprofit (paid)
Foundation for Learning Equality is hiring developers and designers to grow our core team. Join us in our mission to take the online learning revolution offline!
* Position:
We're looking for a developer and/or designer to join our small team that builds open-source software to provide learners all around the world access to free, high-quality educational resources. If you have programming and/or visual design experience, and you want to change the world, keep reading!
* Company:
We are the Foundation for Learning Equality, a nonprofit team of hackers, educators, and humanitarians that eat the digital divide for breakfast. We believe that regardless of their nationality, gender, or social status, everyone around the world should have access to a free, high-quality education. And we need your help to make it happen!
* Benefits:
- Working and living in sunny San Diego. We can help out with relocation costs.
- Flexible schedule and vacation time.
- Like open source? That's all we do. Find everything we've ever hacked on here: https://github.com/learningequality and here: https://github.com/fle-internal
- A bone-deep sense of purpose that rockets you out of bed in the morning.
- And as if that weren't enough, you'll also receive a salary, 401(k) matching, and health care options
* Core skills (at least 2 out of the 3 below):
- Dev: Python, Django, JavaScript, and Git. Bonus points for: LESS and Backbone
- Visual design: Photoshop or GIMP expertise, hopefully some HTML/CSS, and the soul of an artist
- Spirit: you wake up every morning with the Rocky theme song playing in your head, because you know you're going to go out and make it an awesome day and leave the world in a better state than you found it, one good act at a time.
* Valued experience (optional):
- Education (teaching, tutoring, working in schools, etc)
- Networking (protocols, APIs, Linux stack, etc)
- Databases (schemas, efficiency, sqlite, etc)
- Mobile (Android/Kivy development, responsive design, etc)
- Video editing (we're making a documentary)
- Hardware sourcing (finding providers, bulk ordering, build-to-order processes)
- Quality Assurance (automated and/or manual testing)
We're a cross-disciplinary team that believes in the transformative power of access to education. We're a nonprofit, we create open-source software, and our beneficiaries are in underserved communities such as rural schools, community centers, and refugee camps all over the world. We enable completely offline access (via local network, mobile app, and peer-to-peer/sneakernet distribution) to a wealth of free learning resources (things like Khan Academy) and tools to support students and educators.
We are seeking a Full Stack Engineer who identifies strongly with Learning Equality's mission to bring quality education to under-resourced communities around the world. We use Python/Django on the backend, and Vue.js on the frontend. Apply at: https://grnh.se/5b407e571us