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Learning Equality - San Diego - Python/Django and/or HTML/CSS/graphics - Nonprofit (paid) Foundation for Learning Equality is hiring developers and designers to grow our core team. Join us in our mission to take the online learning revolution offline! https://learningequality.org/about/jobs/ * Position: We're looking for a developer and/or designer to join our small team that builds open-source software to provide learners all around the world access to free, high-quality educational resources. If you have programming and/or visual design experience, and you want to change the world, keep reading! * Company: We are the Foundation for Learning Equality, a nonprofit team of hackers, educators, and humanitarians that eat the digital divide for breakfast. We believe that regardless of their nationality, gender, or social status, everyone around the world should have access to a free, high-quality education. And we need your help to make it happen! At FLE, you'll work on software platforms that will be used in some of the most remote places on earth. Our offline version of Khan Academy, KA Lite (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/), has been installed in over 120 countries (https://learningequality.org/ka-lite/map/). * Benefits: - Working and living in sunny San Diego. We can help out with relocation costs. - Flexible schedule and vacation time. - Like open source? That's all we do. Find everything we've ever hacked on here: https://github.com/learningequality and here: https://github.com/fle-internal - A bone-deep sense of purpose that rockets you out of bed in the morning. - And as if that weren't enough, you'll also receive a salary, 401(k) matching, and health care options * Core skills (at least 2 out of the 3 below): - Dev: Python, Django, JavaScript, and Git. Bonus points for: LESS and Backbone - Visual design: Photoshop or GIMP expertise, hopefully some HTML/CSS, and the soul of an artist - Spirit: you wake up every morning with the Rocky theme song playing in your head, because you know you're going to go out and make it an awesome day and leave the world in a better state than you found it, one good act at a time. * Valued experience (optional): - Education (teaching, tutoring, working in schools, etc) - Networking (protocols, APIs, Linux stack, etc) - Databases (schemas, efficiency, sqlite, etc) - Mobile (Android/Kivy development, responsive design, etc) - Video editing (we're making a documentary) - Hardware sourcing (finding providers, bulk ordering, build-to-order processes) - Quality Assurance (automated and/or manual testing) Sound exciting? Apply now! https://learningequality.org/about/jobs/