Python Developer / DevOps

Learning Equality, a California-based nonprofit organization, is dedicated to creating tools for the sharing and creation of open-licensed educational content for use by anyone around the world, with special emphasis on reaching the 60% of the world that does not have Internet access, and those with limited-bandwidth, expensive, or unreliable connections.

You care deeply about making the world a better place, believe in the power of learning, strive to promote equality, and resonate with our statement of core values. You love to build things, and like to think carefully about how best to serve the needs of a diverse set of users.

You will be working on Kolibri, a rewrite of KA Lite that aims to bring a wide variety of educational content to people who don't have Internet access. You will be working closely with the core dev team out of our offices in San Diego. We are looking for core team members who identify strongly with Learning Equality's mission to bring basic education to under-resourced communities around the world.

Required Qualifications

You have skills and experience working with Python, in a variety of contexts. We use Django for the backend of Kolibri, and also leverage Python for automation of business processes, API/web scraping for pulling in new content, media processing/computer vision, and data analysis/machine learning.

Optional Qualifications

Learning Equality is still a small organization, and we each wear many hats, so experience in any of the following areas would also be valued (though in no way required):

• SysOps/server administration/Linux
• Continuous integration/build systems (e.g. Jenkins)
• Performance and optimization, targeting low-resource embedded systems
• Education (e.g. teaching, tutoring, research)
• Networking (protocols, firewall configuration,, etc)
• Databases (schemas, efficiency, replication, etc)
• Quality assurance (automated and/or manual testing)
• Internationalization / translation
• HTML5, Vue.js (or other MVC framework), and CSS/Stylus, which we use on the frontend