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Junior/Intermediate JS/TS Developer Layla is a human-first, tech-powered mental health service, built on quality, patient-centricity, and innovation. Our mission is to empower Canadians to take control of their mental health. At Layla, we embrace a culture of learning, growth and diversity. We support our clients by supporting one another. We are Patient-Centric We are Dependable We are Proactive We Promote Diversity We are One Team Opportunity We are looking for a highly capable NodeJS & ReactJS developer to work on building our new web-based platform. You will be collaborating with our technical lead, designing back-end services and front-end components, and integrating data storage and protection solutions. To ensure success, you should possess extensive knowledge of NodeJS as well as ReactJS based services and experience in a similar role. An accomplished developer will be someone whose expertise results in the stable, fast, and secure exchange of data between servers and end...

Seeking student with coding skills to program a phone application on both Android+Apple mobile devices that will prompt the user randomly to answer a few questions about emotions. The app will also communicate with a wearable device. It is expected that changes in physiological markers measured by the wearable device will trigger the app to prompt the user to answer questions. Wireframe will be provided. Work is to begin as soon as a suitable candidate is identified. Experience developing mobile applications preferred, but a strong interest in learning these skills coupled with an understanding of event-based programming will serve well.  Development is expected to be done in a cross-platform environment such as React, with some custom code to interface with the wearable for each specific platform. Please email Kristel Thomassin at Kristel.Thomassin@uoguelph.ca with your CV and any other information that qualifies your expertise.

Great news! Devpost has recently launched some amazing virtual hackathon opportunities, open to a variety of skill levels and interests, and we thought you might want to get in the action. There is even one JUST for students! Join in to collaborate, build, and get a shot at some great prizes and cool swag:   Browsers 3000 CHALLENGE: Build applications, websites, browser extensions, libraries, modules, tools or learning materials that bring web3 or P2P to the web we have today. PRIZES: $38,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Aug 19, 2021 5:00pm EDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/Browser3000s   DocuSign Good Code Hackathon CHALLENGE: Develop a web or mobile app using the DocuSign esignature and other APIs to support the Jane Goodall Institute or a non-profit of your choosing. PRIZES: $50,000 in prizes DEADLINE: Aug 13, 2021 2:00pm PDT JOIN THE HACKATHON:  https://bit.ly/docusign2021s   Codegeist 2021 CHALLENGE: Bu...

Canadian Undergraduate Technology Conference is a a free, remote tech conference open to everyone! Run by students, for students, our team of 30+ undergrads has been working for the last 10 months to bring this conference to life. It’s happening this weekend (in 2 days) with an incredible lineup of speakers including VPs, Directors, Product Managers and more at Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Morgan Stanley, and other top tech companies.     Through 60+ events, attendees will learn more about and land internships in software engineering, product management, UI/UX design and venture capital. If you are interested in entrepreneurship, then you can learn from successful Y Combinator and student founders! We also have career workshops, resume critiques, and networking sessions with recruiters for those on the internship hunt! For 2 days of career-changing opportunities in tech, it takes only 2 minutes to register at   https://bit.ly/cutc-register .