Anika Legal (Volunteer) | Melbourne, Australia | Part time (10h/wk) | Mostly remote, some onsite required | <a href="
Anika Legal is a free online legal service for Victorian renters. We currently specialise in tenancy rights and tenancy repairs. We are mostly a volunteer organisation (including me), with 3 full time paid staff and 20+ volunteers. This is an unpaid volunteer role. We are a registered charity in Australia.
Our service currently works like this:
- A client submits their problem to us on our website
- A paralegal, typically a volunteer law student, engages with the client and gives advice which is then approved by our supervising lawyer
We have been running for ~18 months and are currently focusing on scaling our services and becoming self-funded. We plan to fund our services by providing a practical legal training unit to universities, who will pay per-student. We hope to scale our operations by keeping our services and training fully-online and adopting productivity boosting technologies.
The tech team is just me at the moment (<a href="). You would be the second addition to the team, so I can't really speak to our engineering culture yet. That said, you will be given autonomy and will contribute to key decisions about our work. Work is done during personal time with a time commitment between 2-10 hours per week. This may change as we launch our first pilot course with a university in June - there may be more work to do as we hit some unforseen issues.
I can say there are some good things about volunteering with Anika:
- You're helping vulnerable people deal with stressful rental problems with your webdev skills
- You get to wear lots of hats: a little bit of CTO, business analyst, frontend, backend and infra
- The culture is really good: high trust, friendly, ambitious
Tech Stack: Python/Django, Postgres, AWS, Docker, CircleCI, Ansible, React, WD-40 and duct tape
You will need to bring your own laptop. Running our current code on Windows might be a struggle. Mac / Linux should be OK.
Please read the position description here, instructions on how to apply within: <a href="