Job Description:

Technical Mentor

RBK is a program for motivated students interested in careers in software engineering or computer programming . In four months, we transform ambitious amateurs to coding professionals.

 

We are the premier advanced immersive program that produces market-ready full-stack Software Engineers with key skill sets demanded by industry. Students train 12+ hours a day, 6 days a week, over 13 weeks in a curriculum focused on computer science fundamentals and JavaScript. 

Employees enjoy a fun, collegial startup environment genuinely committed to employee health and wellness, and filled with talented, hard-working and fun people. You will be surrounded by friendly, brilliant, and mission-driven professionals who work hard to provide the best student experience of its kind in the world. 

 

We are looking for a Technical Mentor to train the brightest students in the coding industry in JavaScript fundamentals and engineering best practices.

 

Technical Mentors are primarily responsible for ensuring students are technically prepared for a successful job search and career in the software industry. Technical Mentors are student-facing members of the team — building culture, coaching success behaviors, and talking code. The Technical Mentor works closely with a small classroom of students across the entire length of the program, and is responsible for the educational and hireability outcome of the student as well as the strength of the community. The Tech Mentor watches over their class of students and ensures on a day-to-day basis that everyone is learning rapidly and is on track for success. When a student gets a job after the program, it is the core teaching staff that they thank with the deepest emotion.

Responsibilities

• • Ensure students are technically prepared for the job search
  • Accurately, consistently, and proactively ensure student success and encourage autonomous learning
  • Provide expert technical and project management guidance to small groups of students building exciting projects using cutting-edge technologies
  • Proactively track & communicate student progress using program workflow, including grading, feedback, and modeling successful behavior
  • Train and coach 4-6 curriculum support facilitators
  • Promote Guided Discovery, eXtreme Learning and a Socratic dialog approach to learning
  • Remediation and Support: Build and execute student action and remediation plans to ensure that all of our students become successful software engineers
  • Curriculum Generation: Create & deliver materials and lectures addressing popular technologies and cohort-specific needs
  • Collaboration: Serve as technical partner to all other departments that ensure job search success

Qualifications

• • Expert-level software engineer, strong JavaScript knowledge, familiarity with emerging technologies like React, Redux, Typescript and Angular
  • Experience with industry-standard software development practices and methodologies like Agile, Scrum and Kanban
  • Ability to model student progress and remove educational roadblocks
  • Empathy and charisma
  • Passion for education and service
  • Skilled and engaging facilitator/lecturer
  • Can-do attitude and a sense of humor

Technical Requirements

The Tech Mentor must be expert in these technologies:

• React / Redux
• Angular
• MongoDB
• NodeJS
• SQL
• Express
• Docker
• Redis / Memcached

The Tech Mentor must be a master in these concepts:

• Advanced recursion
• Data Modeling and Classes
• Data Structures and Complexity Analysis
• Inheritance Patterns
• Algorithms
• ES6, APIs
• Servers and Node
• Server-side Techniques
• Databases
• Authentication
• Deployment
• Virtual servers
• Middleware

Masters not only know all the RIGHT ways but also all the WRONG ways.

Job Perks

• • Competitive salary and benefits
  • Fun learning environment where you can dive deep into the latest technologies and make an impact
  • Free meals during immersive phase (32 weeks per year)
  • Chance for promotion in a rapidly growing company
  • Working with an amazing team that has a reputation for producing some good human beings

Position is a 4 month consultant contract with option to renew and convert to full time annual salary after 4 month probation period. Salary commensurate with experience and commitment. 

 

To apply, please submit a letter of interest and qualifications to:

.             POSTULER              .

[email protected] 

Additionally, please answer the following questions in one to two sentences (less than 50 words):

• • What is your favorite open-source library that you regularly use in your job? 
  • Please explain how it’s useful to you.
  • During a code review, list the characteristics you tend to comment on.
  • Outline your favorite technical interview prompt.
  • Explain why virtual servers are useful and give an example of how you have used Docker or similar to solve a problem.

 

RBK provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability.