Virtual Internships
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Job description
We are Virtual Internships, an EdTech startup on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all.
Over the last four years, we’ve established partnerships with 12,000+ companies, 100+ universities, and supported thousands of students and graduates in becoming more employable via our online work experience product.
We are a team of 130+ across 25+ countries, and recently https://techcrunch.com/2022/09/14/virtual-internships-matches-students-with-top-companies-around-the-world/">secured our Series A funding from investors such as Hambro Perks, Sequoia Capital, Kaplan, Arsenal Growth, and Ascend Vietnam Ventures - who have collectively guided the likes of Google, Linkedin, WhatsApp, Canva, Udemy, and Applyboard.
Our 2022 awards include:
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Ranked 23rd out of 13,000 organizations in https://www.escapethecity.org/escape100/2022?utm_source=media_kit&utm_medium=blogpr&utm_campaign=esc100_2022&utm_id=launch">The Escape 100: the top purposeful organisations to ‘escape’ to in 2022
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https://www.techinasia.com/50-rising-startups-southeast-asia">Tech in Asia’s “Top 50 Rising Startups” (No.6 in Vietnam)
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Top100 EdTechStartup Selected by https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">HolonIQ
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Finalist for https://www.businessleader.co.uk/gotech-awards-22-finalists/">Go:Tech Awards
Your Role
Become one of our new Senior Software Engineers, where you will play a role in building an enterprise-level WordPress platform. If you want to work in a flexible environment where you can own technology, strategies, design, and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, read on!
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Work with the Marketing team to conduct a plan for building the website and scale-up plan yearly.
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Development/Deployment of enterprise-level WordPress plugins and themes in a WordPress VIP multi-site environment.
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Building and collaborating with developers from other teams to create modular, extensible PHP and JS solutions (plugins, packages, blocks, and components).
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To create own themes based on requirements from HTML scratch.
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Local Development Environment Setup/Configuration.
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Theme and Plugin Security.
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Understanding of best standards and guidelines about WordPress.org.
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Ability to handle complex problems from design to execution and deliver in time bound manner under constraints.
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Autonomously architect, prototype, and maintain solutions to different problems.
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Comfortable wearing many hats and willing to work on all parts of the stack.
Your Impact
In your first month, you will:
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Get onboarded and brought up to speed with all things VI - our company structure, product, mission, and values
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Meet with colleagues across the company and start building relationships that will help you better understand the company
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Review our current programs, systems, and data so you can gain insight into where we currently are
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Take over our new WordPress website which is in setting phase
Within 3 months, you will:
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Take ownership of your role and started working directly with stakeholders.
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Have strong relationships with our external vendors and be the front line of people support for the company
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Deliver 1st version of the new website.
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Coordinate with analysis to set up Google Analytics and other tools.
Within 6 months, you will:
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Work with the Marketing team to maintain, and improvement by the analyst result of the new website.
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Be a strong technical advisor for the marketing team about SEO/other Google and WordPress technologies.
Job Requirements
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A Bachelor’s degree is preferred.
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Extensive experience in writing and building PHP applications at scale using object-oriented coding, namespace, autoloading, dependency injection, PHPCS, Psalm, PHPUnits etc., as well as interacting with REST API/ GraphQL
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Familiarity with WordPress development (multisite, configuration, parent/child themes, plugins, Gutenberg) and understanding of security concerns and site optimization for performance.
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Possesses an understanding of and commitment to web standards, including web accessibility standards (WCAG)
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Familiarity with package managers for PHP (Composer) and JS (NPM/Yarn)
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Familiarity with PSR specifications
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Previous working experience with Code versioning and code review
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Previous working experience with Docker, Git, and dependency management via Composer
Consider this our wish list. We know there will be great candidates that don't meet every one of these criteria—if you're passionate about the role and have early-stage startup experience, we'd still love to hear from you.
What do we offer?
One of our core values at Virtual Internships is transparency. That’s why, we’re allowing you to ‘try before you apply’ in our “https://www.notion.so/virtualinternship/Virtual-Internships-VI-P-GUIDE-0aaa39e9a3304d4cbc19fad96bd0c72d">VI-P Guide” which includes our values, how we operate, how we build our packages, and how we interview.
To give you an example of some of our perks and benefits:
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Flexible Working Hours - start earlier, leave earlier, take a shorter lunch or leave a bit later, it's totally up to you.
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Remote First - work from anywhere, with a budget to support your remote setup
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Learn from the world’s best - access to exclusive content including how-to guides and playbooks from Sequoia/500Global-backed organizations
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Professional Development Budget - dedicated budget towards content/platforms/courses that can contribute to your professional growth
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Impact - we’re still at an early stage, so your impact is magnified. You will likely be solving something that hasn’t already been solved or you will be taking something to an entirely new level!
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Birthday Leave - go enjoy yourself on your birthday without needing to use your annual leave
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Meritocracy - a culture that prides itself on internal promotions and meritocracy. The majority of our managerial team has risen up (quickly), including our COO, CAO, CFO, Head of Host Companies, and Head of Intern Experience.

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Would you like to join a rapidly growing company where you can grow your own technology vision and strategy and build products that will positively impact millions of young people around the world?
Are you a passionate, technology driven and data enthusiastic Software Engineer who has experience launching new products in the startup world?
Virtual Internships is an EdTech startup that delivers global work experience programs for young people to pursue their dream career.
We’re proud to be on ‘Tech in Asia’s Top 50 Rising Startup’ List (No.6 in Vietnam) and backed by some of the world’s top investors including Sequoia, 500 Global, among others. You'll be joining a diverse and passionate team of 120+ working in our Ho Chi Minh City (in Vietnam), and across 20+ countries that believe remote work is here to stay.
If you want to work in a flexible working environment where you can own technology, strategies, and design and build new systems from scratch using the tools YOU choose, then read on!
What you will do
Working with a world-class globally distributed team, as the Software Engineer, you will have ownership of key frontend technical strategies and goals of the VI platform on creating exceptional and impactful products for VI.
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Writing application interface codes using JavaScript following react.js workflows.
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Troubleshooting interface software and debugging application codes.
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Developing and implementing highly responsive front-end architecture to support customer facing user interface concepts .
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Monitoring and improving front-end performance.
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Meeting with the development team to discuss user interface ideas and applications.
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Reviewing application requirements and interface designs.
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Identifying web-based user interactions.
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Documenting application changes and developing updates.
What do we offer?
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Flexibility- flexible work schedule where you manage your own working hours
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Remote working - with a budget to support your productivity and your choice of where to work from
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Open-minded leaders- with colleagues who care about your career goals. There are monthly global virtual events including town halls, ask me anything sessions, virtual coffee chats, and virtual team building
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Professional Development- with a budget that you can utilize however you wish
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Company Laptop- paid for by VI
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Birthday Leave- go enjoy yourself on your birthday without needing to use your annual leave
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Direct contribution- ideas and solutions are encouraged from everyone. Your input is valued and you have a unique opportunity to directly impact the success and help shape the future of VI
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Meritocracy- a culture that prides itself on internal promotions and meritocracy. The majority of our managerial team have risen up (quickly) through the company, including our COO, CAO, CFO, Head of Company Experience and Head of Intern Experience
More about Virtual Internships
We’re on a mission to bridge the gap between education and the workplace by making internships accessible to all and preparing young people for the future of work.
To do this, we partner with innovative universities, foundations, governments, and companies from around the world.
Some Highlights include:
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Selected by HolonIQ https://www.holoniq.com/notes/holoniq-europe-edtech-100/">as a Top 100 EdTech Startup 2021
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Selected by Jisc & Emerge Education as a https://www.jisc.ac.uk/news/the-top-20-edtech-startups-ready-to-address-the-education-sectors-biggest-challenges-26-nov-2020">Top 20 EdTech Startup ready to address the education’s sector’s biggest challenges
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Featured on Forbes, BBC News, BBC World, The Telegraph, The Independent, and Professionals in International Education
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Winners of the prestigious https://masschallenge.org/announcement/first-ever-all-virtual-masschallenge-israel-accelerator-announces-top-startups">MassChallenge accelerator program
Job requirements
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Previous experience of 3+ years working as a React.js developer.
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In-depth knowledge of JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and front-end languages.
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Knowledge of REACT tools including React.js, Webpack, Enzyme, Redux, and Flux.
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Experience with user interface design.
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Knowledge of performance testing frameworks including Mocha and Jest.
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Experience with browser-based debugging and performance testing software.
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Excellent troubleshooting skills.
Good to have
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Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a similar field.
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Experience building products for large or medium scale enterprise (B2B) customers
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Good technical competency and an understanding of working with cross functional teams
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Excellent focus on attention to detail and strong quantitative skills
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Experience in other frontend technologies such as Angular, Vue etc.
Bonus ‘to-haves’
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Having worked as a full stack engineer or developer in a product organization.
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Experience with a (any) set of incredible tools for product development and task management.

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