Fullstack Web Development Lead Teaching Assistant

RFCUNY Research Foundation of the City University of New York•New York City, NY

2d•Hybrid

About The Position

The Tech Talent Pipeline Residency (TTPr), a training and internship placement program for a cohort of computer science undergraduates of CUNY BMCC, is seeking an experienced Fullstack Web Development Lead Teaching Assistant to deliver specialized software engineering support in the form of a software engineering coding bootcamp for TTPR. This role is ideal for individuals who possess a deep passion for teaching and a commitment to expanding access to the tech industry. This position is available as of April 2026, and will be terminated at the end of the funding period. The program runs from June 1, 2026, to August 21, 2026.

Requirements

A degree or alternative education in computer science or related fields
Experience delivering computer science or software engineering instruction (including live debugging), or substantial professional software engineering experience that demonstrates equivalent (or greater) capability
Proficient in fullstack web development (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Node, Express, React, Redux, Relational DBMS, ORMs)
Proficient in developer tools such as CLI/Terminal, Postman, VS Code, Postico, pgAdmin
Proficient in a project management tool(s) such as Jira, ClickUp, Monday, Asana, Notion, or Trello
Proficient in industry-standard Git workflows and GitHub (GitHub Projects, GitHub Pages)
Proficient in developer operations as it pertains to CI/CD and/or deployment/hosting using Netlify and/or Vercel
Familiarity with: implementation details of Open Authorization protocol

Nice To Haves

Prior experience working at a Software Engineering/Cybersecurity/Data Science Bootcamp, an instructional (technical) role in a CUNY or CUNY-related program, or as a collegiate adjunct for a computer science course
Familiarity with: Figma, Lucidchart, Tailwind, Bulma, Rate Limiting, Hashing/Salting, CORS
Familiarity of: AWS/GCP/Azure, Firebase, UI/UX principles, React Native, TypeScript
Prior experience as an apprentice, intern, freelance, associate, junior, or senior software engineer
Prior experience as a or in: solutions engineer, sales engineer, quality assurance, quality engineer, software development engineer in test (SDET), scrum master, or UI/UX and Graphic Design & Digital Design
Prior experience in other fields such as but not limited to: Data Engineering, Data Science, Cybersecurity, Artificial Intelligence
Prior experience with: hackathons, open-source contribution, bug bounties, published scholarly works and research, computer science degree, TA/SI equivalent during undergraduate or graduate studies
Candidates who understand and connect with the experiences of students in public and access-focused higher education systems (CUNY), whether through their own academic background or professional work.
Background in the training model used (web development coding bootcamp flagship graduate or web development coding bootcamp flagship instructor) along with the specific technology stack that is trained (PERN)
Held the role of a professional Junior Software Engineer with directly relevant hands-on work experience.

Responsibilities

Lead or co-lead lecture if Instructor is out
Record attendance
Live code if lecture requires pair programming
Manage help ticket board
Function as scrum master for half of capstone projects per capstone project
Review the material to prepare for help tickets
Provide resources to students for technical knowledge and technical skillset support
Complete help tickets for troubleshooting: tool installation, tool configuration, problem-solving related to in-class assignments, homework assignments, or capstone projects
Identify blockers for a student's project
Guide students to verbalize their thought process
Unblock students through advisement, technical project management techniques, or by escalating to another instructional staff member
Function as a scrum master for capstone projects and also contribute to brainstorming about frontend design, file structure, and project scope (you might be asked to diagram on a whiteboard when in-person or a digital whiteboard when remote)
Participate in 1 weekly sync up meeting with the instructional staff by default, and with the program manager if available
Review if a classwork or homework submission was submitted with: a link, an accessible link, a link to the proper project, time of last commit, sum of commits, and amount of commits per group member (use Trello?)
Hold a mandatory office hour M-Th (no office hour on Friday) (two thirty-minute segments)
Track individual aggregate contributions at the end of each capstone project by commit history, by copying and pasting it into an internal document
Flag areas of improvement in student progress within an internal document
Proctor monthly quiz with assigned students
Conduct exit interview with assigned students
Improvising deadlines (including if polling the students is the best way to adjust)
Improvising the agenda/schedule/EOD announcements, especially on or around challenging topics or demo day, or any mandatory staff member-trainee pair programming/office hour/code review
Improvising, for example, by adapting support dynamically; for example, if inbound help tickets drop to zero during capstones, shifting to a proactive, outbound model by regularly checking in and providing support across all groups on a consistent, responsive cadence
Building students’ self-efficacy
Guiding students through the pace and intensity of a bootcamp
Facilitating capstone topic ideation
Developing students’ first-principles programming skills alongside AI-assisted approaches, balancing foundational understanding with practical outcomes
Clarifying the limitations of third-party APIs
Supporting students in intermediate capstone concepts and implementations, including but not limited to: WebSockets, task scheduling (cron jobs), service workers for offline/background syncing, throttling, debouncing, caching, WebRTC, pagination, filters, sorts, searches, etc.