FULL STACK JACASCRIPT DEVELOPER 2018

Career Pack
 ABOUT SALT
School of applied technology </salt> is located in the heart of Stockholm within
Epicenter, the most innovative technology center in the Nordics. </salt> is
addressing the extreme shortage of technology professionals in Sweden by
offering accelerated career programs comprised of education and fully paid
work experience. Our mission is to train new technology professionals to
strengthen the Swedish talent pool.

We believe in accelerated learning based on professional and relevant work

experience, once training is completed our students are equipped to start
working as a productive team member within a modern software development
team.

Our career programs are free of charge for the highly motivated individuals
who are ready to focus, work hard and complete the program to launch their
new careers in tech.
 FUTURE PROOF YOUR CAREER

Over the last decades every company has become a technology company relying on websites, e-
commerce solutions, ERPs and sophisticated back- and front- end solutions. All of these IT
solutions need to be developed, updated and managed by skilled IT professionals. The immense
growth in the technology sector has lead to an extreme shortage of programmers and
technology professionals, leaving all companies scrambling for talent in the extremely
competitive technology recruitment space. Today Sweden alone is missing 30,000 IT
professionals and that number will double to 60,000 by year 2020, and increase to 70,000 by
year 2022. By entering the technology industry and knowing how to code, you are effectively
one of the most highly demanded professionals in Sweden with a future proof career.

Salary statistics speak a clear language:

A lawyer in Stockholm, requiring a 4 year and geographically limiting education, earns on

average 36,000 SEK per month. While a software developer with a few years of work
experience also earns on average 36,000 SEK per month. Web development and front-end
development (which is a focus at </salt>) is rapidly becoming the most demanded category of
software developers in Sweden with an average salary in Stockholm of 46,000 SEK per month.
That means your salary development will grow quickly along with just a few years of work
experience in your software development field.
 ABOUT THE ACCELERATED CAREER
PROGRAM AT </SALT>
The Full Stack JavaScript Developer program at </salt> is designed to teach motivated, passionate
and creative individuals how to code from scratch. We believe and invest in your future potential and
what you can achieve with the right support around you, not what you have done in the past, so you
don’t require any previous formal education or experience to apply.

Our Accelerated Career program is divided in two parts (3 + 12 months):

1. Software Development Training – 3 months

On September 3rd 2018 </salt> gives 30 individuals the opportunity to study Software Development
full-time for 3 months in central Stockholm at Epicenter, right next to the Mood Galleria. Epicenter is
the leading technology hub in the Nordics and home to some of the fastest growing technology
companies in the world. Our instructors at </salt> are some of the most respected and
knowledgeable software developers in Sweden. Teaching you code theory is just the base, our
instructors will coach you how to work in a real life agile development team and how to deliver
working software for real technology companies during your training.

2. Work experience – 12 months

Once you have successfully completed the 3 months training we know you are ready to launch your
career as a software developer. We are so sure that we are offering you a job, guaranteed, as soon
as you are done with your training. </salt> rocket launches your career immediately as a consultant
within our hiring network.
 THE INSTRUCTORS AT </SALT>
Head Instructor
Jakob Leczinsky
Jakob is a passionate Full Stack developer
always eager to learn new tech. He has
worked with high traffic websites,
administrative systems and mobile apps in
media and finance. This has formed Jakob to
be a pragmatic developer who highly values
quality and agility.
Jakob is a team player who will often take
on a mentoring role in his teams. He has
held software developer positions at
companies such as Discovery Networks,
Dagens Nyheter and Jakob is also leading
the internal training program at Cygni, one
of Sweden’s leading IT-consulting
companies.
Head of curriculum & agile coach UX instructor
Marcus Hammarberg Erşan Curuklu
Erşan is a highly experienced requirements
Marcus is committed to helping companies to move
analyst and UX Designer with over 15 years of
ideas faster to production with a focus on agile
experience as a digital designer. With his long
development, in parallel with </salt> Marcus is an
experience, he has worked in a variety of
agile coach at Spotify. As a developer, Marcus
disciplines within the UX area. Everything from
contribute to open source frameworks such as
developing new concepts, developing system
NancyFx, Koa and ClaudiaJs, he has also produced
implementation and procurement requirements,
several courses on JavaScript development for
interaction design, website design, magazines,
PluralSight as well as co-authored the book
apps, digital campaigns and operational and
“Kanban In Action”.
strategic work within UX.
At companies such as Tradera, Huawei and Spotify
Erşan is an accomplished teacher and lecturer in
his role is has been one of a coach, teacher and
the UX area, for e.g. at Bergh's School of
change agent from the team to the organization
Communication in Stockholm. Erşan has won
level. Between 2014-2016 he also worked for the
several awards in UX / UI, including Svenska
Salvation Army in Indonesia helping their 6 hospitals
Design Priset 2014 and Resumé 2014.
and 17 clinics to become more efficient.
 WHAT ARE WE LOOKING FOR
IN OUR CANDIDATES
At </salt> we are looing for individuals who are:

Motivated
Our candidates must be very motivated to succeed as our career program will be
quite tough. You will complete 500+ hours of coding in just 3 months at </salt>.
That is roughly the same amount of coding hours as a full multi-year university
degree to become a software developer.

Passionate
Passion is everything when devoting yourself to a new career as it will be one of
the cornerstone components of your life. Our candidates need to be passionate to
learn and work with technology, because that is what we are all about at </salt>.
Passion also has to be there for teamwork, developing software is done in teams
and during the training program our students will work in numerous team projects
supporting each other and helping each other evolve and develop.

Creative
We would like for our candidates to be curious and creative, always thinking of
new ways to improve and enhance products and user experiences.
 A typical day at </salt>
You will start each morning with a short recap of what you learned yesterday, sharing with
the group, to reflect and deepen the learning.

In the morning we typically have a lecture or a theoretical introduction to the topics we are
going to cover during the day. This section is sometimes very short and other days can cover
most of the morning.

The rest of the day is devoted to hands-on learning by working in your teams, guided and
supervised by our instructors. This section will start with a short stand-up meeting where you
plan out the work for the day and ensure that you are spending your time wisely.

You will also end each day with a short retrospective to ensure that we keep improving your
ways of working and learnings.

There are always opportunities to stay after office hours to catch up or repeat what you
have learned during the day. This will be needed from time to time as you cannot expect
that you will master everything taught during office hours without additional practice.
Training blocks
Week 1-2 <Full Stack Fundamentals>
This block provides an overview of the Full Stack environment and tools we will learn and use in the course. Create
your environment, get up and running coding, see Full Stack in action.

We will throw you head-first in the deep-end of the Full Stack environment you will be working with; already on the first
day you and your team will build something together. The rest of these weeks will be a very intense learning
experience, refining and deepening the learning little by little. This fundamentals block is the basis of the rest of the
course.

Week 3-5 <Backend with Node.js>

Learning modern systems development process. Programming, algorithms and test driven development. Fundamentals of
professional backend development. JavaScript and Node.js.

You will learn how to code JavaScript professionally. We will teach you how to structure your code, make it modular and how to verify
that it actually works before running your program.

Week 6-9 <Frontend with HTML5 and React>

Understand and use the building blocks and standards of modern web development. Learn to use state of the art JavaScript
framework React.

The modern web is moving more and more towards the browser and you will learn how to use the latest HTML5 standards. We will
first make sure you understand the basic building blocks of the web, before moving on to use React.js, which is a frontend framework
developed by Facebook. You will also learn how a UX-designer works and what he/she expects from you as a developer.

Week 10-12 <API and Storage>

Learn what an API is. Build and consume services with the most commonly used protocols on the modern web, such as REST and
GraphQL. Know how to use a database (MongoDB and PostgreSQL) to persist data.

In this block you will learn how to safely store your data, how to build your own APIs and how to interact with third party services to
extend the functionality of your application.
 DETAILS AND DATES
Important dates:
Application deadline - June 10th 2018
Course starts – September 3rd 2018
Course ends – November 30th 2018
Employment starts – January 2019 or earlier upon agreement

Technologies:
JavaScript, CSS, HTML, Express / Node, React, MongoDB to mention a few focus areas

Team collaboration techniques:

Agile methods - Scrum
Mob programming
Pair Programming

Education is held at:

Applied Technology STHLM AB
c/o Epicenter
Mäster Samuelsgatan 36
Stockholm
 INFO AND FAQ ABOUT OUR
CAREER PROGRAM
Do I need to have any previous experience or education to apply?
No, we are recruiting based on your motivation, only English proficiency is a
requirement.
Deposit
Once accepted you are required to put down a deposit of 5000 SEK to
reserve your seat, which will be returned to you in full after 2 weeks of studies.
</salt> can offer financing options if needed.
Employment
Once graduated and starting January 2019 you will be hired as a full-time
consultant with </salt> for 12 months and placed with one of our hiring
partners with a monthly salary of 30,000 SEK.
Is the career program free?
Yes, the program is free if you complete the full career program (3 + 12
months) with </salt>.