Supercool Developer

  United States

San Francisco

Term: Throughout the year 
Length of Position: 1-6 months
Durations of Program: 9-12 weeks, 3-6 months, 7-12 months, 1-2 years and over 2 years
Typical Duration of Program: 1-2 years

Description: Developer Intern Wanted

Dear supercool underdogs, web socialists and hidden champions!

We are searching for Developers who would like to do an "Internship" at Supercool School.

Supercool School is a highly purpose-driven startup that was founded by a team of underdogs from Europe and India to change the world using the amazing powers of learning.
We are building the first demand-based online learning marketplace that empowers people to request classes, join them as students or teach them using a simple webcam. Launching our alpha version on Facebook five months ago, Supercool School has attracted over 3.000 users that requested over 300 classes ranging from "How to start a business in China" to "Advanced Java" and "Thai Soup Recipes". We're going to have our global website launch in January 2009 and are already involved in some super secret projects with well known global organizations.
We are driven by our believe in the power of learning. We believe that education is the answer to all the challenges that we face today. And even though we don't have all the solutions yet, we believe that they can be found in the hearts and minds of the people. So empowering them to learn and to develop their true potential means empowering the world to become all it can be: a better place for all of us.

We don't care for your degree, your age or your nationality ...
BUT that you're inspired and committed to accomplish great things with us.

Responsibility:

- Modular feature and product development

Frame:

- You can start immediately
- You can work from home or in the office
- The office is in downtown San Francisco

We offer:

- A bad ass business model to change society
- An international team
- No hierarchy
- A T-Shirt
- Future full time employee in any business field + stock options
- Work with state of the art technologies (VOIP, video stream, API, Widget, Ruby, etc.)
- A lot off responsibility and challenges
- A bright future

Qualifications: Essential hard skills are:

- Experience with Windows and Linux development environments
- Basic knowledge of web based database driven applications
- Knowledge of especially Ruby on Rails + HTML, Javascript, CSS and SQL

Essential soft skills are:

- Purpose driven personality
- Constructive team player
- Independent, enduring and self initiative personality

Nice to haves:

- Project Experience
- Every language is a plus (especially: Greek, German, Russian, Hindi)

Cost in US$: 0

Salary / Pay: Equity of the company!

Experience Required: yes

self initiative!

Typical Volunteer: A typical volunteer/intern/employee at Supercool School is a passionate, engaged, entrepreneurial and ambitious person.

Age Range: 18-30

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to United States Independently

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 5-20

Application Process Involves:

• Online Application plus Application Assessment
• Phone Interview
• Resume

Supercool School's Mission Statement: Supercool School makes online learning social by democratizing the learning process and empowering everyone to demand, create and participate in live and interactive online classes.

Year Founded: 2008