At Boot.dev we're building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. We’re a small team of developers who love to make the process of learning as fun and hands-on as it can be.
We are looking for a junior video editor/animator that can help us more consistently and quickly produce computer science and programming explainer videos. We don't need someone with tons (or any) paid professional experience, but we do want to see a portfolio of what you can do!
Boot.dev | Remote possible, Salt Lake Area preferred | Salary + Equity
We're building the smartest way to learn backend development online by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: bordeom.
We need someone with some of the the following skills in descending order of importance:
- Writing & Copywriting: Can you tell a good story? Can you grab someone’s attention and keep it? Can you write in a way that’s easy to understand?
- Creative: Can you make things look good? Can you script an engaging YouTube video? Can you point out what’s wrong with a TikTok video?
- Code & tech: Can you write a simple script in Python? Do you know how to use Git?
- Sponsorships & Partnerships: Do you know how to find and run successful sponsorships and partnerships with creators and companies?
- SEO: Do you know how to audit a website for SEO issues? Do you know how to optimize the content to rank? Do you know how to build backlinks?
Analytics: Do you know how to setup and manage Google Analytics, MixPanel, Posthog, etc? Do you know which metrics are important?
- Paid campaigns: Do you know how to setup and manage Google Ads, Facebook Ads, etc? Do you know how to get creative in order to find a positive ROAS?
Yuuuge disclaimer: I made it, but Boot.dev is a collection of game-like interactive courses focused on backend web dev. It's all in Python and go for the most part.
I will say I don't think certs are a big deal, and they wouldn't be the reason for doing Boot.dev. Its all about learning the concepts and putting it into practice by building cool stuff
I have a decoupled front and back end. Front end takes less than a minute, back end take 5 minutes. Biggest time sink is a rebuilding the docker image, it doesn't cache super well.
I really like Tailwind, I see a lot of hate in this thread so I'll try to offer a counter-perspective.
First of all, it's important to understand what Tailwind is good for, and what it's not good for.
Tailwind is NOT a design framework. It doesn't dictate the "theme" of your app. I like to think of tailwind as a tool for writing "clean" css that encourages good UI/UX practices. We need to stop comparing it to Bootstrap.
Tailwind is a tool that makes using "good practice" design simple and easy. If you haven't read Adam Wathan's "Refactoring UI", I'd recommend it. It's a book that helps developers make better UI/UX design decisions, and Tailwind is the framework that Adam developed that encourages a lot of those practices.
On that note, my recommendation is, "Tailwind CSS is AMAZING if you're a small team of developers and you don't have a dedicated designer". Tailwind probably is NOT a great choice if you work with a team of designers and need everything to be super-custom and pixel-perfect.
It's also important to note that tailwind is based on utility-classes. It can easily be used alongside "regular" css. I love that it gives a sane convention for writing that stupid "padding: 4px" class you're going to need. My old apps had crap like this that all did the same thing:
.p-4
.pad
.padding-4
.padding-button-4
After several developers got their hands on the CSS, and didn't realize there were already classes defined for what they needed.
Tailwind can be used very effectively with designers, so long as both teams agree on the scales used. All of that stuff can be modified to your designer's heart's content.
I have a lot of custom stuff like breakpoints and typefaces and new sizes. If your designers can work with the tailwinds configuration file it shouldn’t really be a problem
It's so much easier today when it comes to good tooling, scalability of services, specialized tools, etc.
It's so much worse today when it comes to things like paralysis of choice and configuration.
I've been working on a new project for Boot.dev students and the goal is to get them a simple but professional dev environment on their machine. It's a very hard problem.
At Boot.dev we're building the smartest way to master backend development by tackling the hardest problem with e-learning: boredom. We’re a small team of developers who love to make the process of learning as fun and hands-on as it can be.
We are looking for a junior video editor/animator that can help us more consistently and quickly produce computer science and programming explainer videos. We don't need someone with tons (or any) paid professional experience, but we do want to see a portfolio of what you can do!
Link to full JD: https://blog.boot.dev/careers/#junior-video-editoranimator
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