Pollinate Group
Technology Fellow
About the Organization
Pollinate Group empowers marginalised women as entrepreneurs so they can earn an income, learn valuable skills, and step into leadership roles. The ripple effect of this change helps lift generations out of poverty and ensures communities have increased resources and are resilient to the impacts of climate change. We have a powerful impact model that works at the intersection of poverty, gender and climate to empower lives sustainably.
Since our founding in 2012, we’ve reached almost 943,000 people across India and Nepal and empowered more than 2550 women to bring positive change to their communities. Our network is committed to reaching the communities nobody else will.
At Pollinate, our team identifies, trains, and develops local women entrepreneurs in urban and rural communities to serve their peers living on less than US$2.15 daily. Through our Micro Entrepreneurship training program, women entrepreneurs gain business skills and financial literacy to serve their communities through the products impacting their lives and communities. Our goal is for women entrepreneurs to earn respect and meaningful income and act as role models who raise awareness about products that improve health, save money and save time.
Our training model is based on the journey of a woman entrepreneur from when she is first recruited to the final stage, where she is on a journey to financial independence and has the technical skills to undertake her business operations independently.
Fellowship Description:
As part of our Internship Program, the Full Stack Intern will work on building and enhancing features for our mobile application, gaining hands-on experience across product, design, and engineering.
Qualifications:
Minimum Skills:
Comfortable using Git
Comfortable with Javascript/Typescript
Experience with REST APIs
Comfortable with Python
Willingness to learn:
React Native
How our app integrates into Salesforce
AWS services such as lambda, API gateway, Cognito
Interested owning feature delivery end-to-end
Additional Desirable Skills:
Experience with React Native or Android development
Experience working with Salesforce
Experience with AWS Serverless & SAM
UX design experience
Additional Context:
Application Technical Context:
Mobile App: React Native (Javascript/Typescript)
Backend: AWS, Lambda (Python) & API Gateway, Cognito, DynamoDB
Analytics & Monitoring: Google Firebase, Splunk
Main Database: Salesforce
New Feature Process:
Making a new feature requires skills across product management, design and technical programming skills.
Product Manager:
Determine if this feature should be in the app e.g. understand benefit and if this is better suited elsewhere.
Feature requirements - technical requirements, user requirements etc
Technical Design - Determine how the feature will work end-to-end, define interactions with the backend, AWS services, and Salesforce
App Design - Create UI/UX designs
Feature Build - Write the code for the feature & get it reviewed.
Feature Testing - Test the new feature works in various scenarios, write unit tests as needed
New App Release - Once ready, stable & approved we can publish it to the playstore.
Time Commitment: 20 hours / week