Overview

SKILVUL GROUP is a social enterprise with a mission to build accessible tech education for everyone.

Currently, we offer two main services - an end-to-end coding bootcamp (Impact Byte), and an online training & certification platform for on-demand digital skills (Skilvul), for anyone who wishes to become a programmer.At Skilvul Group, we treat each other with respect and communicate with empathy. We support each other even though it is not part of our job description.

We try to create a working culture where everyone is responsible for their own time. We require you to work efficiently and spend time wisely. We hope that nobody is working late here. We do not want to boss you around. In fact, you will be able to speak freely to anyone, including the top executives, about anything. We treat each others’ time valuable and ask kindly for each other’s attention and help despite positions.

We expect you to prioritize and fulfill your responsibilities, but you are also welcome to pursue your hobbies, spend time with your family, hang out with friends, and do other stuff that you are passionate about. We hope that you can have a more meaningful and purposeful life by working at Skilvul Group.

Job Description

We are looking for a knowledgeable and experienced back-end developer and/or instructor to be a Mentor for our Coding Bootcamp Program: Back End Development. You will be working directly with the Technical Lead and Instructor to be a group mentor for our students. You must give live video mentoring via Zoom and chat via Slack/Discord for helping our students become job-ready Back End Developer.

This is a paid, remote, part-time position (20 hours per week, Monday - Friday) for 4 months from 29 August - 23 December 2022. Your scopes will include (but are not limited to):

What you'll do

• Giving live video mentoring via Zoom and chat via Slack/Discord for a group of students

• Collaborate with Technical Lead and Instructor to make sure learning outcomes are achieved

• Becoming a facilitator for students in the mentoring or 1on1 session

• Providing guidance, advice, feedback, and support to students in following the program

• Facilitating students while they are doing their work assignments and final project

• Have a strong desire to assist students from Senior High School, Vocational Students, College Students, Fresh Graduates, and already have a job from diverse backgrounds in developing digital products

What you'll need

• You should have at least 2 years of hands-on experience in developing and testing apps on Back End Development for medium to large scale applications

• Fluency and experience with JavaScript

• Must have a good understanding of Algorithms & Data Structures

• Strong knowledge of Node.js and Express Framework to build web service and RESTful API

• Experience with Object-Oriented Programming, RESTful, API, JSON/XML/HTML protocol, ORM, and Database Technologies: MySQL/PostgreSQL and MongoDB

• Experience using ORM Sequelize and Mongoose

• Fluency and experience developing Authentication & Authorization also with Middleware

• Experience in API design and development

• Familiar with API documentation

• Having the experience to deploy applications (Netlify for front-end and Heroku or AWS for back-end)

• Experience with developer tools such as Git, GitHub, Command-Line, and Postman

• Fluency and experience with unit testing using Jest

• Passion to share knowledge

• Attention to the details

What will make you stand out

• Professional experience building various web applications using JavaScript

• Having a previous experience on teaching or mentoring

• Experience with Docker

• Experience writing educational content that reaches a wide audience in a digital format

• A strong written & spoken English

• Good public speaking skill