MakeSchool is looking for a rails developer to teach the web development portion of our new gap year program (http://www.makeschool.com). You'll be teaching students aged ~18-25 how to build and ship their first website! Our curriculum will cover Ruby on Rails and HTML/CSS/JS, you'll get to heavily influence the curriculum for this year and the future. You'll also get to help guide the students' product ideas, help them understand how to effectively code on a team and prepare them to become professional developers or startup founders. Our students are some of the brightest in the nation, they've been coding for years, have already shipped iOS games and apps and have a passion for building great products. It's an exciting opportunity to help inspire the next generation of makers and help define the future of CS education.<p>What we’re looking for:
- Passion for teaching and teaching experience
- Strong CS background and industry experience building real products
- Significant experience with RoR/HTML/CSS/JS (bonus for having scaled a rails app)<p>The position would start mid-november at the latest, we'd be happy to have you start right away to help develop the curriculum. The teaching period will last 3 months, after which you would contribute to curriculum development, website development and a variety of other areas. Our team cares deeply about the problems in education we are trying to solve, and we'd love if you do too. We're a tight knit group of 8, our team has moved from Hawaii, Michigan, Germany and Boston to join us. It's a diverse, fast paced and fun environment.<p>Interested?
Contact ashu@makegameswith.us<p>--<p>About Us:
MakeSchool is building a replacement for the computer science degree. This summer we taught 120 high school and college students how to build iOS apps across SF, Palo Alto and NYC. We're currently piloting a 1 year college supplement where students learn mobile and web development, computer science theory, and development focused career skills. The year culminates with an internship at a tech startup. The next step is a 2 year college replacement that will prepare students for a career as a founder or developer. We're looking to build the college experience we wished existed. Our curriculum is used to teach courses at 3 of the top 4 universities for computer engineering. Over 300 students have taken our in-person courses and over half a million students have used our online tutorials. We were founded in 2012 and are funded by Y Combinator, Andreessen Horowitz, Alexis Ohanian, Tim Draper and more.