You’re Exploring A Career As NEXT Academy’s

CODING MENTOR/ SOFTWARE DEVELOPER

Department

Coding

Position

Full Time

As the world is becoming more digital, there is a dire need to be educated with tech skills to safeguard our future. NEXT Academy has been on a mission to educate people from various background to learn to code apps.

We have seen many graduates who started with zero knowledge currently employed as coders in various startups, MNCs and dev houses.

If you are a full stack coder who wants to give a different path in life a try, we welcome you onboard as a mentor!

As a mentor, we are up-to-date with the movement in the the tech scene and our goal is to help our students learn the concept and best practices in a practical way. It is not just merely teaching; we will ideate ways together to hack learning behaviours and to gamify their learning experience.

During downtimes, we will explore new tech and build some fun cool indie projects together. Everything we do serves as an inspiration to our students and to the public on the power of tech.


Objective

  • To inspire and nurture a new generation of coders

Key Functions

  • ‍Design and create course content
  • Conduct classes
  • Design learning experience
  • Explore new tech and build mini projects together with the team

Requirements

  • Know frontend programming (Frontend Basics: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Frontend Framework: ReactJS/ VueJS)
  • Know backend programming (Either JavaScript – NodeJS, Python – Flask, Django) (alternatively, you are adaptable to these languages and framework)
  • Great self-initiative and sense of responsibility
  • Have a heart for people
  • Data driven mindset (we will measure the progress of students)
  • Organized and detail-oriented
  • Passionate about the digital age and technology
  • Fluent in written and spoken English

Good to have

  • Have some teaching experience (or open to learn how to teach)
 

Compensation

  • Min. 2 years experience up to Mid-Senior Developer (RM5000 – RM9000)
 

Special Requirement

n/a

Job Referral

  • Know someone who can do this job?
  • Refer a friend for this job and you’ll get RM 500 in cold hard cash!
  • Just send them this link and ask them to fill in your email address in the application form.
  • We will email you once we hire and confirm your friend (after probation) for the job.

*Referral will only be paid out for successful hires that pass their probation period (typically 3 months)

About NEXT Academy

NEXT Academy is a school for people from all walks of life who are interested to learn to code, do digital marketing with the ultimate goal of becoming a world class software engineer, effective digital marketer and/or tech/online entrepreneur.

We also believe in equipping talent of all levels with the digital skills to innovate and thrive in their own career to propel overall business competitive and uniqueness.

Up till January 2017, we have graduated 500 software developer and digital marketers from 40 different countries. Many of them are now pursuing careers in the technology/digital industry as software engineers, project managers, designers, developers, digital marketers and entrepreneurs.

Companies such as Amazon, Google, AirAsia, Digi, Fave/KFIT, Grab, Tinkerbox and more have hired our graduates. Many of our graduates have also gone on to build their own startups generating millions in revenue and raised millions as well in the process.

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