Hiring two developers for socent startup

mWater is a small tech startup with a big dream: to eradicate waterborne disease with technology and data. We believe safe water is the most important health issue in the world. Waterborne disease (diarrhea) is the second leading cause of child deaths and is the top confounder of the leading cause of child deaths (lung infection). In addition, children suffering from chronic diarrhea are extremely likely to be seriously malnourished, and this can cause mental and physical disability for life. Women who suffered chronic diarrhea as children are at a higher risk of dying from pregnancy and childbirth. Communities with safe water are able to work more hours per week, raising their potential to escape poverty. We feel like eliminating diarrheal disease is the cornerstone of health and economic development.

mWater is growing past our founder team and we need to hire. However, it can be scary for a startup to hire fulltime employees, so we are seeking two people who are interested in adding 10-15 coding hours to their work week. Our founder team began this way, as bootstrapped experts in our own fields. mWater is written in HTML5 + Javascript + PhoneGap. Our key competencies needed are Javascript and HTML5. You should be comfortable with Linux, Git, MongoDB and Node.js.

We are seeking developers who:
● Are fluent in HTML5, Javascript, Node.js, and MongoDB;
● Can come up to speed quickly with mWater's legacy code and database structure;
● Are personally fulfilled by developing innovative code that can change the world;
● Are dedicated to open source and open access code;
● Are as willing to write new code and hunt down bug reports;
● Work entirely remotely we communicate in 3 continental time zones, mostly on Skype, WebEx, or Viber.

Our development story:

mWater is a mobile app that is fully functional on any model of smartphone or tablet. Our technologies are generally focused on building tech platforms that increase local governments’ capacity to address waterborne disease. We began in 2011 with a simple Android app that used the phone's onboard camera to read a lowcost water test, geocoding and interpreting the result to make a colorcoded marker on a crowd map. Water users (individuals), health workers, and water managers can use this system to find safe water and identify the water sources that cause the most illnesses in their community. We can also use this system to assist middleincome cities, to map chlorine residual for piped water systems and track pricing for water kiosks. The end result is a datarich crowd map that is accessible onand offline for lowresource communities.

We piloted the app in Rwanda and Tanzania with health workers and water managers and in 2012 scaled past beta to a fully implementable system that is now used all over the world by individual users and is implemented by mWater contract in 7 countries. mWater’s investors fund
the development of a new stage of our technology, which is then made freely accessible to the world. Current and past investors include UN Habitat, USAID, and Riverkeeper.

In 2013, mWater expanded to offer community governance management tools that reach beyond our original water source mapping and contamination monitoring. We have moved our database to MongoDB to allow for more flexibility. We expanded the app beyond Android (still on
Android, though) to a browserbased interaction that works on any smartphone or tablet that has internet access. We also added surveys, or rather, expanded surveys, as the test reporting interface had since become an expanded survey. It is difficult to understate the value of surveys
for lowresource communities, where surveys are the engine of governance. They are how a city manages from health workers to health officials to municipal managers. We are moving paperbased survey systems to a digital interface, making communities’ survey data actionable
in real time. We like to say that paper is where data goes to die. Digital surveys solve data death. This follows our organizational mission: add capacity to existing systems, rather than replacing them with a longterm NGO/aid dependency.

In 2014, we are working on localizing our app to different languages and giving communities more options for interfacing with their data, even designing their own surveys with real time query pushes. Our target customer base is expanding to include health providers, such as doctors,
nurses, and midwives. Through every step, we are working to make as much data open access as possible. The end result is a global water quality database with aligned indicators for data points around the world that can allow the first ever platform for data mining water. We think the
potential for studying water and disease over time and geography will result in a new understanding of this systemic issue that can reveal new solutions. This step closes the loop in our ultimate vision: using data and technology to change the world.

For more information, visit our website and try out the app. Interested candidates should contact Annie at [email protected]. Share your website, portfolio, or other representative work.
 

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mWater hiring Executive Assistant

mWater is hiring a 10-15 hour/week position for Executive Assistant to the CEO. This individual should be interested in tech startups with a future ambition of moving beyond assistant level.
This individual needs to be a selfstarter with significant ability for problem solving. Tasks will require writing ability in English and knowledge of NGO management in the US. Ideally, the person will be located in NYC, but virtual positions will be considered. College students in the fields of health, sciences, and policy are especially encouraged to apply.

For more information, visit our website and try out the app. Interested candidates should contact Annie at [email protected]. Share your website, portfolio, or other representative work.