Friday, March 24, 2017

Is this my future?

Is this who I will be, three or five years from now?
Software Developer Job for Non-Profit 
compensation: $85,000-$130,000, commensurate with experience
employment type: full-time
non-profit organization 
We are looking for a developer ready to join a fun, dynamic work space, someone who is ready to work in a team and to respond to assessments of data in interesting and productive ways.
This is an onsite full-time position with normal business hours based in Sacramento. We are looking for someone ready to work in agile and test-driven development methodologies, and who is fluent in RoR, Javascript, and CSS.
Ideal candidates will have solid problem-solving skills, will show flexibility in re-designing elements to respond to changes in user-needs.
The position may may include quarterly business trips to our headquarters in New York.
This is a terrific nonprofit doing important work.
Requirements
- 2+ years client-facing Ruby on Rails work
- Test driven development experience
- Agile development methodology experience
- 2+ years client-facing Javascript
- 2+ years client-facing CSS
- located in or willing to locate to the greater Sacramento area
Strongly Desired (but not required)
- Ruby >=1.9.3
- Rails >= 3.0
- Git
- PostgreSQL >= 9.1
- Vim
- Javascript
- REACT
- Bootstrap
- RESTful APIs
- RSpec
- HTML 5
- CSS/Sass
- JQuery
- Resque
- Redis
- Jasmine
- Elastic Search
- Experience buiding apps that are Accessible and Responsive
- Test Driven Development
- 3+ years experience
- 2+ years of Agile experience
- Has worked for clients (not just a product with no external stakeholders)
- Has worked on an app or web service with 3,000+ users
Benefits
- Full health coverage with medical, dental, & vision
- 401(k) plan
- FSA
- Company Educational Contribution
- Flexible Vacation Plan
Compensation is commensurate with experience.
We are excited to receive applications from all qualified candidates, including developers of any gender or sexual preference, ethnic or religious background, or level of seen or unseen disability.
Interested candidates may send a cover letter, resume, and GitHub handle (optional) to "Software Developer Job Applicant [your name]" (please use the email above.) Please also include 2-3 Professional References.
Principals only, please! We have no need for recruiters at this time.
Principals only. Recruiters, please don't contact this job poster.
do NOT contact us with unsolicited services or offers
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Aaaand then it's six weeks later.

What did I do during those six weeks? Gave myself enough legal training to be able complete a DIY divorce packet and hand it over to "the client."

Also, about 5 hours on Codecademy React.JS lessons. But those felt very decontextualized and arbitrary. After a four-week break, took another look at the FCCamp curriculum and decided it would make more sense to me to try tackling their "Back End" certificate next rather than the "Data Viz" certificate. Especially since their "Data Viz" is all kind beta/unpublished/skeletal anyway.

I feel disconnected and rusty :(