What we’re about
An at-will, learn-on-the-"job" software development project, that you can use to get day-to-day experience as a software engineer. Learn to code (or code better) by taking assignments, and reporting on your work as you would in a professional Agile software team. We code in Java, and Javascript, using many popular frameworks and tools. We operate in two week sprints, and we believe in data structures, algorithms, and code reviews.
We aim to make you a believer, too. When you join, you tell us how much time you have available. Your assigned tasks will be appropriate to your level as a developer, all with the intention of making you stronger.
This group is sponsored by Savvato Software. We write the software that supports Savvato. Our first product will be a social network which makes it easier for people to connect with the people they wish they knew.
Imagine Billy detailed Alice's car. Using the app, Alice could co-sign Billy, indicating to everyone that she agrees that Billy is good at doing car detailing. Further, imagine Alice has created some impressive custom seat covers for her car. Billy could co-sign Alice, indicating that she does professional-level sewing. The more people they each get to co-sign attributes about them, the more confidence others can have about them when they seek out people with these attributes.
Two further factors make this intriguing.. First, in order to cosign someone's attribute, you need to pay a few cents to the network. This is one way that Savvato will make money, and it helps ensure that a person with a lot of cosigns is not spamming.
Also, these attributes could be about ANYTHING, so a search could be very specific! So Charles, could use the app to search for a car detailer who is vegetarian, and who enjoys NASCAR. And Billy, our vegetarian car detailer who enjoys NASCAR, if he finds that he is in high demand, he can set a fee to be contacted, to filter frivolous requests.
Java, Bitcoin's Lightning Network, Angular, MySQL, and Verified Credentials are a few of the technologies we will be using.
There will be more to it, but hopefully the product seems useful, and non-trivial. The potential learning opportunities available to you are deep, should you decide to work with us.
You will choose to be a developer on either the frontend or backend (or both!). Whichever you choose, you will learn by taking small development tasks, and doing the research necessary to implement them. We as a team are always available for you via our Slack channel.
OUR GOAL is to make it easier for you to get the real world job, by having already done the job. We are a mock job. You make the life decision to be an awesome (or at least paid) programmer, and we give you the structure of a real world development organization, with real world situations and pressures that you take upon yourself.
All programmers, of all skill levels, who wish to become better programmers, are welcome.
