Codesmith – Software Engineering Instructor – New York City, NY

Job Description

Job title: Software Engineering Instructor

Company: Codesmith


Job description: Job description

Welcome to Codesmith

Codesmith is the top-ranked coding school in the US with the highest independently verified outcomes for graduates and graduates working in engineering roles at Google, Amazon, Facebook, and more. We are launching diverse new formats for learning online and in-person and are innovators in education.

The role

The Engineering Instructor role at Codesmith is a unique opportunity to take on a role in a fast-paced and mission-driven tech education startup as part of a team dedicated to democratizing elite education for a new era. We know our program’s results are largely due to the excellence of our instructors, making this role critical to our team and program.

In partnership with the Instruction team, the Engineering Instructor will be a pivotal voice in maintaining and furthering engineering excellence at Codesmith. The Engineering Instructor will continue to develop their own technical knowledge and communication while fostering the development of Codesmith students and the software engineering community at large.

If you thrive in an innovative work culture, have a passion for teaching and mentorship, and are excited by the idea of helping students achieve their software engineering goals, then this role is right for you.

What you’ll do

• Prepare and deliver lectures throughout the Codesmith programs on intermediate and advanced topics in software engineering and team-based engineering best practices
• Provides support in the development of student excellence and aspiration to ensure Codesmith continues to produce the highest achieving and most impactful community of engineers in the country
• Provide technical mentorship to students
• Collaborate with each Instruction team to plan for student needs
• Serve as a leader for Codesmith Engineering Fellows and Mentors and properly train them on new concepts or processes
• Assist with coordination of Fellow duties to include code review and academic progress check-ins
• Deliver high quality and impactful public talks related to advanced software engineering topics such as Callbacks & Higher Order Functions, Closure, and Asynchronous Javascript
• Fulfill any and all responsibilities of the Lead Engineering Instructor position on an as needed basis
• Be ready to jump in and assist on any responsibilities across the academic team
• Ownership of assessment grading, Academic Progress Check assignment and Feedback to Engineering Fellows and residents in the Codesmith program
• Maintain and further develop engineering insights through troubleshooting, debugging, maintaining and improving new and existing software within Codesmith codebases
• Serve as a developer advocate representing developers’ interests in the broader engineering community and create reliable feedback loops through Youtube, blogs, public workshops/talks, Stackoverflow dialogs, etc.
• Assist, when needed, with Codesmith’s Admission prep programs (JavaScript for Beginners & CS Prep)
• Contribute to the growth of the company through a successful team

You’ll be a good fit if …

• You have experience educating individuals on complex topics via a range of forums (lecturing, technical writing, mentoring on the job, etc.)
• You are passionate about becoming a thought leader in the software engineering space
• Understand Codesmith’s values and the Codesmith pedagogy and culture
• Have the ability to inspire people with Codesmith values
• Have the ability to explain complex concepts in a clear manner
• Provide authority, credibility, and empathy in your communication
• Readiness to manage and guide in an academic capacity
• Passion for mentorship and find joy in helping a student excel and grow
• Are driven and ambitious in the pursuit of your own professional development, but are able to put Codesmith’s deeper mission first
• Have the ability to multi-task and work successfully in a fast-paced environment
• Have the ability to quickly adapt to new circumstances as they arise and change your plans to navigate or overcome unanticipated obstacles
• Have at least one thing that you’ve pushed to an extraordinary level – maybe your academic success, a sports-related accomplishment, a company you worked for or started, an organization you’ve been a part of and/or contributed to – something that required drive and ingenuity for success

Our team, our goals, and our mission

Our goal: Building the complete graduate school of the 21st century – grad school is not about skills, it’s about values – rigor, community – but we do it with contemporary skills like coding, data science, and design. We have a clear mission, vision, and values. Our brand identity is super-personalized but substantive.

Our why: Codesmith was built to enable people to have the skills to make the impact they want, to do so at a high level of excellence, yet remain accessible and supportive of each other. Our four key company values emulate this:

• Execution and ownership is about strengthening the impact of our programs and products and using our own skills to the best of our abilities to do so.
• Collaboration and community means, even as we focus on execution, we remain a supportive community where it feels good to be achieving excellence because we’re doing it with others.
• Thoughtful communication is the glue that links Execution & Ownership and Collaboration & Community together. It is both a value and skill that needs to be nurtured.
• Aspiration for all is the notion that when your work exemplifies these values, there is no limit to the impact you can have within the company, team, and your career.

At Codesmith you will be constantly surprised at how quickly a good idea can be turned actionable, and how supportive a team environment can be. The essence of being part of the Codesmith team is understanding deeply where you’re going and then having the creative freedom to get you there.

Location

Remote

Salary

$130,000-$145,000

At Codesmith, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and team members without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity and inclusion among our team members is critical to our success as an educational company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.

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Expected salary: $130000 – 145000 per year

Location: New York City, NY