Nonprofit
Published 3 months ago
Remote Volunteer Software Engineer — iLevelUP
Remote, Volunteer must be in United States
Details
Time Commitment:
A few hours per week
Commitment Details:
Approximately 5–10 hours per week, including required onboarding and confidentiality commitments.
Recurrence:
Recurring
Volunteers Needed:
5
Cause Areas:
Children & Youth, Economic Development, Education, Financial Literacy & Personal Finance, Job & Workplace
Benefits:
Training Provided
Participation Requirements:
Attend Orientation
Age Requirement:
18+
Other Requirements:
Confidentiality, privacy, secure development, accessibility, synthetic test data, code review, testing, change control, rollback, and production-access training.
Description
Help iLevelUP build and maintain a secure, accessible educational platform for underserved youth and young people.
The volunteer Software Engineer will implement approved product features and technical improvements across application services, interfaces, integrations, tests, and documentation.
Responsibilities:
- Translate approved user stories and technical designs into small, reviewable changes
- Develop maintainable application code using project standards and documented interfaces
- Write unit, integration, component, or end-to-end tests appropriate to each change
- Review code, fix defects, improve diagnostics, and update technical documentation
- Collaborate with product, UX, accessibility, API, data, quality, security, and DevOps volunteers
- Apply privacy by design, least privilege, input validation, secure secret handling, and safe error behavior
- Use synthetic or approved nonproduction data and environments
- Follow approved repositories, branches, reviews, releases, monitoring, and rollback procedures
- Never deploy to production, access participant data, or expand permissions without authorization
Qualifications:
- Experience developing production web, mobile, API, or cloud software
- Strong programming, debugging, testing, Git, APIs, databases, and software-design fundamentals
- Familiarity with accessibility, privacy, application security, CI/CD, and remote collaboration
- Clear documentation and reliable follow-through
- At least 18 years old and willing to complete screening and confidentiality requirements
This is a remote, recurring or project-based role. Expect approximately 5–10 hours per week.
Questions: volunteers@ilevelup.app
iLevelUP
107 Spring Street, 2nd Floor
Seattle, WA 98104
(206) 414-8043
Location
Volunteer must be in United States
Associated Location
Seattle, WA, USA
