Fullstack Web Development Lead Teaching Assistant

Research Foundation of The City University of New York • New York, NY

2d • $30 - $30 • Hybrid

About The Position

Thank you for considering a career with the Research Foundation of The City University of New York (RFCUNY). The team at RFCUNY is made up of dedicated, talented professionals committed to providing the services that allow CUNY researchers, faculty, and staff to focus on their intellectual curiosity and scientific discoveries. We are pleased that you are interested in exploring opportunities to join RFCUNY. About the NYC Tech Talent Pipeline (TTP) TTP is a public-private partnership, launched by the Mayor’s Office in May 2014 to support the growth of the NYC tech sector and prepare New Yorkers across the five boroughs for 21st-century jobs. The Tech Talent Pipeline works with public and private partners to define employer needs, develop and test training and education solutions, and scale solutions throughout New York City, delivering quality talent for the City’s businesses and quality jobs for New Yorkers. 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. We will also be hiring: 1 Lead Instructor, 4 Teaching Assistants, and 2 Peer Tutors.

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

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.

Benefits

• Applicable holiday benefits
• According to RFCUNY’s Policy No. 507-I - Benefits Programs for Project Employees: “Full-Time (less than 90 days) Employees who are appointed for at least 35 hours per week for fewer than 90 days are entitled to statutory benefits.”

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level