Super Apprentice

Internships shouldn’t be about cheap labor. They should be about learning from experienced pros, not doing work those pros would rather not do. They should be about increasing your depth of experience, widening your knowledge base, and learning what happens in the real world.

But that doesn’t seem to be what it means to be an intern. So we don’t want an intern. No, we’d rather have something more like an apprentice. Or a mentee. Call it what you will, but we have an opening of sorts. Here’s what we think it will look like:

• Focused on web development, design, and entrepreneurship. In that order.
• 3 or 4 months long. Your choice, starts soon-ish
• Mostly remote. That means no office. We'll meet regularly, though.
• Consistent review and assessment. Feedback is everything!
• Goal: learning and output. That means the quantity of shipped projects is as important as amount of learning
• You'd start with internal projects to get up to speed, and then graduate to client work
• The endgame is not employment with supermatter; that's not to say it's not a possible outcome, it's just not the goal.

Note: we can deal with a school if you need credit. That’s not a requirement, though.

Learning Outcomes

Or, things you'll know by the time we’re done with you

• Version control with git, and modern best practices
• Modern cloud deployment practices (on PaaS like Heroku)
• Ruby
• JavaScript
• Rails 3.x.x and related stuff
• Agile development practices
• Lean startup principles
• other cool shit (e.g.: node.js)

What you Need

In order of importance

• Passion and drive
• The ability to communicate coherently in writing
• Time (The more the better, but let’s not live unbalanced lives, okay?)
• HTML/CSS knowledge (more than beginner level, please)
• Programming experience

About Us

We build software for other people and for ourselves. As time goes on, we'd like to do more of the latter and less of the former. We usually work in the Ruby stack, usually with Rails. We're as focused on UI and UX as we are on architecture and scalability. We work with founders, startups, small companies, agencies, and other small shops like us.

How to apply:

Send an email to intern@supermatter.com. Tell us why we should hire you. Include whatever you think necessary: portfolio, project, resume, cover letter, etc.