Software Trainer (Postgres)

This is a remote position.

Coders Connect are excited to partner with Skiller Whale changes what tech teams are capable of with live, remote training sessions led by subject-matter experts. Developers attend a 1-hour session every couple of weeks, learning something new through challenging exercises and a trainer to give extra context and answer difficult questions. No video lectures, ever. Learners love us (they give us an average rating of 4.8 / 5) and they have a measurable impact on the teams they work with. They are seeking for a highly skilled and talented DevOps engineers, with a great passion for technology, to help them develop rapidly growing edge cloud solutions. The team works on cutting edge cloud web service technologies to provide innovative, highly-available and scalable solutions.

They are looking for a Postgres expert to teach remote training sessions for various tech teams.

All their teaching is done through the Skiller Whale platform, which includes video conferencing and other tooling designed to make teaching coding as slick as possible. High quality written content and exercises are provided by Skiller Whale, so trainers shouldn’t need to do significant preparation before a session (They assume ½ hour to read through the material, and they pay for that time).

The trainer’s job is to provide learners with exceptional teaching, and help them to deeply understand the topic being covered. This means they need to deeply understand the technology, be able to answer difficult questions and debug code errors live, as well as explain advanced concepts clearly and succinctly. Industry experience is also useful to make learning relevant to real-world software problems.

This would initially require between 2-4 hours of teaching time per week, and would be an ongoing relationship. They are growing significantly, so over time there will likely be more training sessions to lead.

Requirements

They want to be seen as Intelligent, Playful Learners, who their customers trust to teach them how they should be writing code in the real world. For our trainers, that means:

Content Knowledge : You should come across (legitimately) as an expert in Postgres, able to expand beyond the provided material when appropriate. This should include a deep understanding of how queries are planned and executed by Postgres (e.g. how Postgres stores data, the impact of indexes, locks,isolation levels etc.)

Clear Explanations : You must be able to deliver clear and concise explanations in spoken English, and be able to adapt your explanation style to match the level of your audience.

Expert Spoken and Written English : You should be expert and eloquent in spoken English.You should be able to understand questions with complex phrasing or grammar, and identify when clarification is needed.

Personable, Passionate and Professiona l : You should be able to build rapport with new groups of people easily, while

maintaining professionalism.

Live Debugging : You should be comfortable looking at SQL code, quickly understanding how it works (or why it doesn’t), and identifying bugs or potential improvements under time pressure (e.g. live in a session).

Industry Experience : In order to talk about Postgres with confidence, it’s important that you’ve used it in the real world: learners may well ask about examples when you would use features in practice, or when the topic you’re teaching has had the biggest performance impacts for you.

Bonus Points For :

Teaching / Mentoring Experience : Experience teaching groups of more junior developers, or mentoring other developers (even in an unofficial capacity).

General Programming Experience : All the people they teach are already developers, working in a range of different languages. Having some context from other languages, and how they are used alongside databases can be useful to help learners who are used to interacting with databases through other frameworks.

O ther SQL Dialects : Understanding some aspects of how Postgres differs from other SQL dialects may come in useful for answering questions (and make you a more versatile teacher for us!)

They want to be seen as Intelligent, Playful Learners, who their customers trust to teach them how they should be writing code in the real world. For our trainers, that means: Content Knowledge : You should come across (legitimately) as an expert in Postgres, able to expand beyond the provided material when appropriate. This should include a deep understanding of how queries are planned and executed by Postgres (e.g. how Postgres stores data, the impact of indexes, locks,isolation levels etc.) Clear Explanations : You must be able to deliver clear and concise explanations in spoken English, and be able to adapt your explanation style to match the level of your audience. Expert Spoken and Written English : You should be expert and eloquent in spoken English.You should be able to understand questions with complex phrasing or grammar, and identify when clarification is needed. Personable, Passionate and Professional : You should be able to build rapport with new groups of people easily, while maintaining professionalism. Live Debugging : You should be comfortable looking at SQL code, quickly understanding how it works (or why it doesn’t), and identifying bugs or potential improvements under time pressure (e.g. live in a session). Industry Experience : In order to talk about Postgres with confidence, it’s important that you’ve used it in the real world: learners may well ask about examples when you would use features in practice, or when the topic you’re teaching has had the biggest performance impacts for you. Bonus Points For : Teaching / Mentoring Experience : Experience teaching groups of more junior developers, or mentoring other developers (even in an unofficial capacity). General Programming Experience : All the people they teach are already developers, working in a range of different languages. Having some context from other languages, and how they are used alongside databases can be useful to help learners who are used to interacting with databases through other frameworks. Other SQL Dialects : Understanding some aspects of how Postgres differs from other SQL dialects may come in useful for answering questions (and make you a more versatile teacher for us!)