- 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.

Help us create the backend infrastructure for the website you're currently on!

In this project, you'll be helping develop the backend systems to allow our platform to make a huge impact! We'll be using Strapi which is a headless CMS that will help us develop at rapid speeds! We'll also be using other modern web technologies such as node js, PostgreSQL, Docker and using REST API principles to develop the backend.

We'll have weekly meetings where we meet with the front-end team to discuss the platform's direction and status and have a special backend-focused meeting where you can get one-on-one help. 

We accept people of all skill levels to come join and make our goals possible!

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Site Backend

Lead Developer - Backend Team

## Importance of The Role
Dev Launchers is building the platform that helps people from diverse backgrounds transition into a technical career. As the lead for the new Quality Assurance (QA) team, you will lead the technical direction of the testing architecture.

## Quality Assurance Team
This is a new team to build out the testing infrastructure for the platform. You will work with other teams to design unit, integration, end-to-end tests and production monitoring. You will help other teams adopt best practices in debugging and documentation. 

## What You Will Do
- Design easy to use and automated testing architecture
- Recruit and mentor team members
- Work with the Platform Enablement team to create a culture for high quality software
- Be the driver of technical decisions
- Collaborate with other project teams

## What You Will Learn
- Mentor and manage a team
- Collaborate with people around the world
- Deliver high quality software

## Who You are
### Required skills:
- Few years of QA experience
- Comfortable with making autonomous decisions
- Excellent communicator
- Curious to identity new problems and propose solutions

### Bonus skills:
- Familiar with front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS and React
- Familiar with backend technologies, such as REST API and Postgres
- Experience with Agile development methodology

## 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!



This team is all about creating a stable, well-defined framework for other teams in the organization to utilize. This is done via developing shared components and functionalities, along with providing support and guidance to other teams in order to assist them in getting up to speed using the framework. 

- Collaborate with our product and feature teams
- Ensure the platform is developed in line with customer requirements. Build the platform incrementally
- Build and deploy in increments and secure frequent feedback and validation from users and other cross-functional teams. Focus on usability
- Provide platforms that are easy to use via self-service capabilities and supporting documentation. Commit to support and maintenance
- Ensure the platform’s sustainability and uptime, and commit to appropriate service-level agreements. Lead by example 

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Platform Enablement Team

QA Lead

## Importance of The Role
Dev Launchers is building the platform that helps people from diverse backgrounds transition into a technical career. As the backend team lead, you will lead architectural designs and mentor a team of developers.

## Backend Team
We use Strapi as our API service and Postgres database to support multiple frontend projects. Currently the team has a product manager and 3 developers. 

## What You Will Do
- Partner with the product manager to build new features
- Recruit and mentor team members
- Work with the Platform Enablement team to make it easy for frontend teams to test API integrations
- Be the driver of technical decisions
- Collaborate with other project teams

## What You Will Learn
- Mentor and manage a team
- Collaborate with people around the world
- Deliver high quality software

## Who You are

### Required skills:
- Few years of software development experience
- Comfortable with making autonomous decisions
- Excellent communicator
- Curious to identity new problems and propose solutions

### Bonus skills:
- Familiar with front-end technologies, such as HTML, CSS and React
- Familiar with backend technologies, such as REST API and Postgres
- Experience with Agile development methodology

## 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!




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