Full Time Instructor - Full Stack Web Development

Are you an Int-Sr level full stack developer who has a passion for helping train the next generation of devs? Are you a natural ‘teacher’ and are excited about the opportunity to build upon or gain experience in this area? Do you believe the best way of learning is by doing and learning from professionals? Are you eager to surround yourself in a culture of smart people? Do you love the idea of making a difference in the lives of students? Lighthouse Labs is an intense 10-week bootcamp that turns beginners into professional developers. We do this by using a hands on method, tons of 1 on 1 mentorship and by hiring amazing teacher/developers who want nothing more than to get the best out of ambitious, passionate & driven people. If this sounds like you we’d love to chat about our contract teaching opportunities at Lighthouse Labs!

Teachers are responsible for handling any and all questions that come up. This includes pair programming and debugging issues with students, which in most cases is more valuable for the students than giving them an answer. Also, code reviewing to help students refactor their code and giving instruction (“lecture”) every morning at 9am for an hour to two and occasionally an hour afternoon Breakout Session. The Full Time instructor will be teaching, mentoring and managing- constantly engaging with teachers and students to improve the quality, consistency and content of the program. You’ll have your hand on the pulse about what’s being covered on any given day and how students are doing.
As a Full Time Instructor, you would further be responsible for conducting technical interviews with students, overseeing prep work, assisting with project planning and ideation, proctoring tests, identifying struggling and successful students, and making student decisions along with the General Manager and Education Manager. You will also be able to work on the following:

When you'll be doing it:

• We offer a schedule and a consistent time commitment that works around your current job/ freelancing gigs/ side projects/ startup. (We want you to keep coding and contributing to community!). Weekly hours can range from 5-30 hours between 9am - 6pm.

Technical Qualifications:

• At least 5 years of professional experience in web development, specifically in JavaScript
• Preference for open source web languages and tools.
• We really like Javascript and Ruby, but are eager to chat if you're experienced with the following frameworks: Python, Java, Scala, Go
• We also really like jQuery, Rails, React, NodeJS + (Express or Koa) but many of our mentors also have other backgrounds such as Django, MeteorJS, Elixir + Phoenix, Scala, AngularJS, Ember
• Strong knowledge of *nix operating systems
• Have strong sense of open source development workflows using tools such as Github

Nice to Have:

• Teaching Experience
• Public speaking experience (giving talks at meetups, conferences, etc.)
• Experience with or strong understanding of how to create scalable web applications, not just startup MVPs

Perks

• As huge believers in continuous professional development, we encourage you to work on your own side projects
• We heavily encourage speaking and attending conferences, and have an annual budget devoted to it.
• We’re dog friendly :)

Gender, racial and ethnic diversity is important to us so we highly encourage people of diverse backgrounds to apply for this position!
If this sounds like you, please send us an email at: teaching [at] lighthouselabs [dot] ca