Previous experience conducting user interviews virtually, attending weekly meetings, and collaborating with team members to create effective insights.

Gathering and evaluating user requirements, in collaboration with product managers, designers, and developers.
Must be able to attend weekly team meetings and commit five to 10 hours a week.
Conduct research on user experience and target audience.
Formulate insights based on user research results.
Proficient with UI/UX tools e.g., Figma
Preferred experience conducting user interviews and/or crafting interview dialogues.
Have a few years of experience OR have worked on a couple of projects.
Bring vigor, passion, motivation, and energy.
Willing to work in an Agile/Scrum development environment involving weekly standups and bi-weekly sprints.

Play a role in building the site you're currently on!

By joining this project you'll become part of a large, technically advanced team working toward huge impact. Our team works with modern web technologies and uses widely accepted standard practices in agile software development. 

This project is currently split into two sub-teams: the front end and the back end. We do weekly sync-ups  where the entire group gets together to be briefed on the overall status of the project and give input on product direction, then sub-team focus sessions are held to give hand on support to individual team members and small groups. The leaders of this project, along with all of our members, are open to guiding people of all skill levels as they work toward building cool new features into the platform!



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Platform Website

UX Researcher

About The Role
- Must be able to understand the vision of the project at a high level, and be able to develop and implement a maintainable, flexible, and extendable backend of the platform/product.
- Must be willing to work closely with the Product Owner, UI/UX Lead, and Frontend Lead to bring platform functionality to life.
- Go-to person for backend-related needs.
- Be willing to assist Jr. Backend Developers in understanding their role and deliverables.
- Be willing to assist with code reviews and Pull Requests related to backend work.
- Lead roles will probably require at least 10 hours per week to be effective, however, this could be more or less based on experience, organization, and communication ability.


Our goal is to design a platform that brings together all the different tools necessary to deliver an engaging, memorable, unique, educational experience. These tools will be geared towards technology and programming content.

In addition, this project aims to provide a place for junior developers to explore, implement, and share their knowledge with the platform community.

Further, in order to achieve our primary goals, we believe that the platform should include various gamification aspects, achievements, and a sense of progression and accomplishment.

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BaseCamp

Lead Developer (BaseCamp Project)


About The Role

We are looking for a technical lead who is willing and eager to learn various web technologies while helping a team of ambitious developers implement features!

Expectations
- Lead web application development and system integration efforts
- Provision, Administer, and Maintain a Next.js application
- Debug and Fix Production issues
- Assist in requirements gathering and communicating them to other team members
- Perform verification and validation of requirements
- Contribute to the development of technical documentation
- Manage Github or similar code repositories
- Backend experience (preferred)
- Experience with CMS's (preferred)


About The Project
By joining this project you'll become part of a team pursuing the best site user experience for our team leaders, team members, and even donors! Our projects rely on innovation. We're seeking people with an interest to build better and better versions of our project/team management and recruitment tools.

If you think you're up for the challenge then don't be hesitant and join us on this journey where you'll learn all different kinds of skills, from agile software development to communicating with other project leaders along with other leaders across the organization.



About The Organization
Dev Launchers is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing people from diverse backgrounds to tackle future-proof careers. We are made up of people just like you.

Dev Launchers facilitates ambitious open-source software projects, along with other projects centered around communities and products. We use those same projects to train our members in skills in the realm of software, leadership, community management, product development, marketing, and anything else that may be required to launch real-world products.

We are dedicated to preparing our members for success!

React Project Lead

About The Role

We are looking for a junior web developer who is willing and eager to learn various web technologies mainly in the field of React while working within a team of ambitious developers! In this role we expect you to be

- Self-efficient learner
- Communicating with us on a weekly basis to see the progress you've been making
- Be able to commit at least 5 hours a week

About The Project
By joining this project you'll become part of a team pursuing the best site user experience for our team leaders, team members, and even donors! This project relies on innovation. We're seeking people with an interest to build better and better versions of our project/team management and recruitment tools.

If you think you're up for the challenge then don't be hesitant and join us on this journey where you'll learn all different kinds of skills from agile software development to communicating with various project leaders.

About The Organization
Dev Launchers is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to preparing people from diverse backgrounds to tackle future-proof careers. We are made up of people just like you.

Dev Launchers facilitates ambitious open-source software projects, along with other projects centered around communities and products. We use those same projects to train our members in skills in the realm of software, leadership, community management, product development, marketing, and anything else that may be required to launch real-world products.

We are dedicated to preparing our members for success!

Join Us!

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