Concord: Senior Backend Node API Developer - Xprize for Literacy

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Have you ever wanted to do something AMAZING to change the world but didn't know where to start?

Here is an opportunity to help underprivileged children, to help under-served children, to help ALL children, and to help adults who can't read.

You can be a part of an amazing convergence of forces that is about to change the literacy paradigm in the United States.

The Barbara Bush Foundation and Dollar General are sponsoring the $7million XPrize for Adult Literacy to incent teams from around the world to develop solutions to the literacy crisis in America. The American Youth Literacy Foundation is 100% committed to winning this competition utilizing a Real Speech(tm) reading curriculum that we have been field proving for 7 years and that we believe will exponentially improve the way reading is taught in America's public schools. With our patented technology we are able to teach most children how to read in 12 hours or less!

The XPrize rules require us to build an android-based, smart phone/tablet (phablet) application that teaches illiterate and low literate adults how to read without any teacher or adult supervision (something akin to how Duo-Lingo teaches foreign language).

Our mission over the next 9 months is to:

* Build this application

* Adapt our proven reading curriculum to a digital format

* Beta test in real world learning environments

* Create new, compelling curriculum to synchronize with the digital format, and

* Work as a team of highly creative and talented people to bring this app to fruition.

Currently we have more than 20 members on our team including highly skilled front and back end developers, ux designers, product developers, curriculum developers, graphic designers and more. However, we are still looking for some key people to take the lead as "Senior Backend Node API Developers."

Senior Backend Node API Developer Skills Description

An individual who can work with our team to help people learn to read by authoring a RESTful API in Node.js using Express & Sails to power a cloud based interactive learning application.

Experience:

• Node.js

• Express.js

• Or Sails.js

• Well versed in the design and implementation of RESTful APIs

• Comfortable administering Linux & Apache environments

• Experience working with MongoDB or other NoSQL DBs to create scalable data architectures

• Ability to work with team members using Agile development methodologies

• Good handle on Git and some familiarity with Git Flow, pull requests and release version management on a project where there are multiple developers adding features to the codebase simultaneously

• Familiarity with TDD (Test Driven Development)

• Experience deploying applications to the cloud Digital Ocean or AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, CloudFront)

• Experience with clustering, replication, build automation & Continuous Integration scripts (Jenkins C.I or similar)

• Experience generating metrics from user data and large scale data analysis

• Experience handling voice recognition libraries is a plus

  You can make a huge difference in helping us solve the literacy crisis by joining our XPrize volunteer team. This is going to be an incredibly exciting and rewarding experience for a small group of developers and designers. If this is something that you feel passionate about and want to get involved in then please reply today. We need your help. Your contribution, small or large, in the development of this app, could make a difference in literally, millions of lives. Thank you! We truly look forward to hearing from you : )

  Please provide cover letter and resume for this opportunity and we will contact you directly.

  -The American Youth Literacy Foundation Adult Literacy XPrize Team