Help us teach people to code
By: Richard Gill
Tags: Hiring, Jobs, Software Development

We’re pioneering a new for-profit model to train people to code. To meet demand and reach more people, we’re scaling up.

Our goals

Transform people who are unemployed / not fulfilling their potential, into coders with good career prospects. Make money by building software for profit using apprentices we’ve trained. Reinvest profit from 2 to reach as many people as we can.

How we’re doing it

We’ve designed a course to teach people to become fullstack node / react.js developers in ~4 months.

We’ve successfully trained 3 people using the course. They are now all working on building software for our clients.

Class of ‘17

Reaching more people

To reach more people we’re hiring Partners.

Partners are responsible for:

Managing a team of 3–4 apprentices. Training, code reviews, helping trouble shoot bugs etc.

Being ultimately responsible for delivering client projects. Estimating work, tracking progress, talking to clients, understanding the requirements and setting the technical direction.

This allows us to scale up and train 3–4 more apprentices for each new Partner. Which means we can help more people learn to code.

Partner with us

We’re looking for Partners:

With 3+ years commercial experience coding.

Who are strong coders, who work at a professional level in 2+ languages. They should care about good engineering and their craft, and wants to pass that knowledge on to others.

coders, who work at a professional level in 2+ languages. They should care about good engineering and their craft, and wants to pass that knowledge on to others. That have good communication skills and have excellent English.

Bonus points for experience with:

Managing people.

Working with clients.

Project management.

If you fit this description (or you don’t, but common sense tells you that you’d be a good fit) then let us explain why you should apply.

Why you should Partner with us

If you check the boxes above, congratulations, you’re probably a skilled developer who’s not short of options. Here’s why we think you should become a Partner:

You can make a material difference to the outcomes of your apprentices lives. They’ll rely on you to guide them and kick-start their career. Without you, their path will be different.

You can work remotely from anywhere with a decent timezone overlap from the UK (ZDEV is remote).

You have have a high level of autonomy on how to run your team / projects.

Competitive compensation, we’re open to allocating equity / profit shares.

We have a high level of flexibility on what you spend your time on. As long as your core responsibilities are met - you’ll get time and support to learn new things.

We’re looking to push into the technologies of the next 10–15 years (e.g Crypto, smart contracts and ML). (e.g. we’re actively learning Ethereum).

You can work with like minded people and learn from each other. (Here’s my LinkedIn)

We’ll get you whatever equipment / training you need. (Laptops, Desks, Co-working, Conferences.)

We’re a young company with a startup like culture and a lot of flexibility. We will use that flexibility to get the right Partners to join, so if you’re unsure about anything - just drop us a line.

If you think you’re interested email us at jobs@z-dev.io with: