Deadline: 27-Oct-22
Do you want to accelerate your software engineering career? Then Join the Andela movement to ensure that while the digital revolution may have begun in Silicon Valley, its future will be written in Kigali and other cities across Africa.
The Andela Technical Leadership Program is a 9 months career Accelerator program implemented by Andela in partnership with the Ministry of ICT & Innovation. The program aims at empowering Rwandan nationals with the prerequisite software engineering skills to become world-class engineers. It also blends in soft skills training that is essential for professionals to thrive in any work environment, especially when working with a distributed team.
Software engineers who successfully complete the 9-month program will:
- Gain the technical and professional skills demanded by the world marketplace.
- Gain the technical JavaScript skills you need to start your career as a FullStack Junior Developer.
- Get access to Andela’s pool of technical mentors.
- Have the fastest track to your employability as a software engineer in the African Tech Ecosystem.
Through intensive learning, you’ll master the professional and technical skills you need to succeed as a software developer with the world’s top engineering teams.
We’ll do this in partnership, you bring a relentless desire to learn and level up and we’ll provide access to online resources, mentorship, and a community of passionate software developers to support you at every step of your journey.
For technologists, Andela offers competitive long term career opportunities with leading organizations, access to a global community of professionals, and education opportunities with leading technology providers.
For companies, Andela provides access to a global network of fully integrated team members that unlock their business’ innovation and growth potential.
Benefits
- Fully Remote work culture – Andela hires globally and all of its roles are fully remote!
- Bring your own device stipend – buy your own laptop with funds from Andela.
- Quarterly work from home stipends.
- Flexible working hours.
- Equity (as a part of compensation package).
- Healthcare, 401k / pension (US only).
- Andela Affinity Groups.
- Growth & development paths.
- Generous Paid Time Off, Parental Leave, Compassionate Leave.
- And more to come! We’re on a journey to reimagine global benefits at Andela.
Curriculum
- Phase 1: Core Concepts
- Based on the results of the assessments, successful candidates will be invited to an 8-weeks bootcamp. This phase will help candidates understand their career goals while helping them build a solid foundation in web development and teamwork skills required to be successful in the project work phase. This will be achieved by independently building a capstone project with web technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
- Phase 2: Team Project
- Successful candidates at the previous stage will advance to a 14-weeks active development phase, the following technical skills will be covered:
- Backend
- PostgreSQL- An open-source SQL Database.
- Express JS – A fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for Node JS.
- Node JS – An open-source, cross-platform JavaScript run-time built on Chrome’s V8 JavaScript Engine.
- Docker – An independent container platform that enables organizations to seamlessly build, run and share any application, anywhere.
- Frontend
- Associated frontend technologies using React/Redux JS ( an efficient, and flexible JavaScript library for building user interfaces.) as the main framework.
- Phase 3: Apprenticeship
- The apprenticeship phase of the program takes 14 weeks and the apprentices get to work on real-world products with active users and integrate into distributed teams with Andela’s partner companies. Partner companies are the companies with whom Andela agree to have its Apprentices work to get the requisite experience they need.
Eligibility Criteria
Applicant should be:
- Rwandan Nationals.
- At least 18 years of age.
- Willing to commit at least 6 hours to this program a day.
- If you’re a university student, you must be in the final year of your education. University graduates are highly encouraged.
- Have basic skills in HTML, CSS & JS.
- Able to communicate in English.
For more information, visit https://andela.com/engineers/technical-leadership-program-rwanda