GiveSafe Winter Hackership

WINTER HACKERSHIP

LOCATION: Downtown Seattle

TECHNOLOGIES: Rails, React Native, Java, Objective-C

Role:

We’re looking for a hacker with experience powering apps on web stack. If you can code and own a strong orientation for impact, read on; we want to galvanize Seattle’s response to homelessness with your help.

About GiveSafe:

GiveSafe is a platform designed to reveal the journeys of those we pass everyday — the single mom on the bus, the grandfather on the street, the homeless teen outside the supermarket — and provide an effective, cashless way to respond.

BLE beacons are distributed to individuals through nonprofit partners, such that if you have the GiveSafe app, you’ll receive a push notification as you pass by a beacon holder, with the opportunity to read a slice of the person’s life or contribute a needed good or service (such as food, fuel or clothing). Learn more at withgivesafe.org.

Responsibilities:

- Get out and gather early product feedback from actual stakeholders (homeless beacon holders, service and inform the other product managers, designers and engineers

- Create software that enables citygoers to give, beacon holders to grow, and spending partners to help those suffering through homelessness

- Participate in a lean product process where we track our velocity, refuse to build anything unless it’s actually asked for, and seek metrics about our users so we can proactively delight them

- Help hit usage milestones to enable us to find the resources needed to scale to other markets and help the homeless epidemic nationally

Requirements:

- 1–3 semesters of experience prototyping, launching and/or growing iOS, Android, or web applications (hackathons count too!)

- Demonstrable experience gathering and integrating stakeholder feedback

- Exceptional emotional intelligence, plus strong verbal and reading skills

- Strong process orientation and decision-making skills

- A startup/co-founder mentality: our project’s livelihood depends on growth and demonstrated impact; let’s get it done.

What We Offer:

GiveSafe offers competitive monthly stipends, and potentially, co-ownership in the company and vision we are building together this fall. If you’re interested in building relationships and technology to help fathers, daughters, and brothers find their way back home, GiveSafe could be the place for you.

Send us an email with a few project links and we’ll get started.

CONTACT:

Jonathan Kumar, Project Lead

220 2nd Ave S, Impact HUB

312–363–8734 / j@withgivesafe.org