Software Engineer Instructor

<div class="content-intro"><p class="p1"><strong data-stringify-type="bold">Since 2011, General Assembly has transformed tens of thousands of careers through pioneering, experiential education in today’s most in-demand skills. As featured in The Economist, Wired, and The New York Times, GA offers training in web development, data, design, business, and more, both online and at campuses around the world. Our global professional community boasts 60,000 full- and part-time alumni — and counting. In addition to fostering career growth for individuals, GA helps employers cultivate top tech talent and spur innovation by transforming their teams through strategic learning. More than 21,000 employees at elite companies worldwide have honed their digital fluency with our upskilling and reskilling initiatives. GA has also been recognized as one of Deloitte’s Technology Fast 500, and Fast Company has dubbed us leaders in World-Changing Ideas as well as the #1 Most Innovative Company in Education.</strong></p> <p class="p1"><br><strong data-stringify-type="bold">GA is at the leading edge of creating practical solutions to one of the most pressing challenges of our time - the future of work. As recognized by The World Economic Forum, BCG, the OECD and more, these are big challenges to which only a few companies are offering real solutions. In this role, you'll be speaking every day to corporate leaders who rely on GA to help them apply these solutions to their workforce of the future.</strong><span class="c-message__edited_label" data-sk="tooltip_parent">&nbsp;</span></p></div><p><strong>We are looking for instructors</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Our Software Engineering Immersive course is a life-changing educational experience where our students learn the skills and mindsets to take on new careers as web developers. We are looking for a lead instructor with strong full-stack web development experience to play a key role in teaching and leading the instructional team.&nbsp;</span></p> <p><strong>Why teach our Software Engineering Immersive?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">If you are looking to make a life-changing impact by sharing your love for software development with the next generation of developers, we’d love for you to consider joining our team. This is also an opportunity to support General Assembly's programs in our newest region in the Middle East, Bahrain! We deliver more than just skills training, and are looking for teachers who share our vision for a community of lifelong learners pursuing work that they love. As an Instructor Lead for our flagship full-time web development program, you will join us to:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work closely with one or more co-instructors to guide students through a rigorous, transformational journey towards apprenticeship in software development.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Become a better leader, and mentor as you learn from veteran instructors and our world-class instructional coaches.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspire and support students as they identify their passions and drive their own continued learning beyond the curriculum.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Adapt our global curriculum and use it to guide your teaching, building your own lesson plans as needed and contributing back your lessons learned over time.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facilitate a safe, supportive, and energetic community that welcomes the various needs and learning styles of your students.</span></li> </ul> <p><strong>What do we teach?</strong></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We adapt both our global curriculum and local approach to the technical trends and hiring environment of the times and cities we work in, but today our primary educational approach centers around JavaScript. In general, our curriculum is scaffolded to follow the historical evolution of web development. We start by teaching the fundamentals of programming and web design through JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. About 25% of our course (normally unit 2 of 4) focuses on Rails MVC or Django or similar frameworks, using that context to introduce databases, security, and other foundational knowledge. The rest of the course (units 3 and 4) focuses back on JavaScript. We cover API development in Node, then tackle one or more front-end MV* frameworks (Backbone, Angular, Ember, React). We also cover all sorts of other things that junior web developers need to know, like source control, team collaboration, and developer workflow.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">We give students the chance to spend focused time building at least 4 major projects, in addition to other smaller projects and labs. About 20% of overall class time is spent on dedicated project work.</span></p> <p><strong>Skills and Qualifications:</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are the person that your colleagues naturally gravitate to when they are trying to figure something out.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You are eager to shape the skills, minds, and careers of the newest generation of web developers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have at least 3+ years of experience working on a software development team.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">WDI/SEI Alumni a strong plus.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">You have working experience in both front-end and back-end development, and are fluent in:</span></li> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">HTML and CSS</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Full-stack JavaScript (strong JavaScript highly preferred)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one JS MV* framework (Angular, Backbone, or React preferred)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">SQL databases (we generally use PostgreSQL)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">NoSQL (we generally cover MongoDB and Redis)</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">At least one additional object-oriented language (Ruby or Python preferred)</span></li> </ul> </ul> <p><strong>Responsibilities and Duties</strong></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Teach Sunday-Thursday, 9am-5pm (local time), for the 12 week duration of the program.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Instructors will need to commit a few hours per week supporting students, preparing lessons and materials, leveraging existing GA curriculum content.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work closely with co-instructors or teaching assistants to provide students with meaningful and prompt feedback on their progress.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Work alongside GA staff and teaching team to best meet the needs and learning styles of your students.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Guide students through development of a stellar final project that will showcase their abilities to hiring managers.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Facilitate a dynamic, collaborative, and positive classroom community.</span></li> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Inspire students to persevere through the challenges of learning a new skill set.</span></li> </ul> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">General Assembly will cover all travel-related expenses for qualified candidates.</span></p><div class="content-conclusion"><p class="p1">Unless otherwise noted, remote positions can be performed from the following approved General Assembly operating countries.</p> <p class="p1">United States of America (states of operation may vary), Canada (provinces of operation may vary), United Kingdom, Australia, and Singapore.</p></div>