Associate, Web Development

Teach For India is on a journey to reach an India free of poverty and filled with love by ending educational inequity in our country. Fifteen years into our journey we are a movement of ~5000+ Alumni working at all levels of the education system, who are reaching 1 in 10 children across the country. These Alumni have graduated from our two-year Fellowship Program where they taught in under-resourced classrooms to put ~33,500 low-income children on a different life path. Today, we have ~1000 Fellows and are the largest pipeline of driven, skilled talent into the educational ecosystem in India. Over 16,000 Teach For India students have appeared for the 10th grade board examinations till date, with an impressive 95% pass rate across cities as of November 2024.

In 2022, we embarked on Phase 4, our fourth strategic phase. We have a bold and ambitious ten-year journey ahead of us that aims to grow 50,000 leaders, who will work collectively, and with love, to transform the lives of 1 in 10 low-income children in our regions, through an education that unleashes the potential of self, others and India. In this decade, five key priorities will lead us to this vision.

Our work will only be completed when we have built a movement of leaders that is large enough to ensure that every child in India attains an excellent education.

We pride ourselves as being a passionate, idealistic, mission-driven team of individuals. We’re committed to learning and excellence in our roles, and to being deeply rooted in our core values.

Reporting to: Manager, Technology (Web Development)

As a Web Developer, your responsibilities will be to:

• Design, implement, and deliver web applications, working on front-end components, web services, data structures and integration with third-party applications.
• Identify and implement the latest software technologies and frameworks to give the best-in-class user experience for all Teach For India web applications.
• Contribute to the architecture and design of different technical systems across verticals – process flow documents, requirements and architecture definition.
• Ensure the reliability of web applications by writing automated tests.
• Contribute to the design and implementation of enterprise application modules built on Salesforce.com

As an Associate at Teach For India

• Contribute to the team goals and priorities beyond individual goals and priorities.
• Serve as an ambassador of the Teach For India brand and an advocate for our work and for educational equity in our country through both internal and external communication after committing time in our classrooms to understand our work more deeply.
• Support with key organisational areas such as Recruitment, Selection, Fundraising, Volunteering, Movement Building.

• 0-3 years of professional experience
• Experience of having planned and executed complex projects with multiple priorities in a college or work setting
• Experience of having collaborated effectively with a broad range of individuals and groups
• Experiences of having taken initiative in the past
• Experience in server-side technologies using NodeJS, database technologies (MongoDB is a plus), Javascript (frameworks like ReactJS is a plus), and testing frameworks (Jest and Testing-Library are a plus)
• Experience in capturing user stories, software requirements and documenting specifications. (e.g. Use Case Diagrams, SRS and RFPs)
• Excellent technical and software development skills. Experience of entire software development life cycle preferably agile development methods (e.g Scrum)
• Strong problem solving and critical thinking skills
• Ability to be resourceful, take responsibility and find effective solutions to problems

Note: We want to hear your unique voice and perspectives through the process, hence all applicants are expected to personally author statements of purpose/essays in the application form. Any use of AI or Chat-GPT based tools may lead to disqualification from the process.