WHO: Grey-box is social innovation startup that is working on providing free wifi access to educational content in areas where internet and electricity access is problematic.

WHY: 50% of the world lives offline – they haven’t connected to the internet in the last 3 months. In Africa, the average cost for 1GB of data is 7% of the average monthly salary. Even in North America, 50% of rural Canada do not have access to the minimum speed for internet. We believe that this is a solvable problem.

HOW: In a nutshell, the current project (codenamed : Mesh) aims at providing low-cost android devices like UNI (https://www.grey-box.ca/uni/) with mesh networking capabilities in order to be able to share storage, communications (IM) and increase their total network range.

Grey-box is a nonprofit structured under the principle of mobile-first and remote-first. Diversity is not only encouraged, it is an integral part of the strength of the team and its projects

The responsibilities include tasks such as:

• Active participation in the design of functionalities for the current prototype application.
• Refactoring of existing code.
• Maintaining code and documenting incremental progress.
• Assist in troubleshooting and debugging issues to ensure the stability and reliability of the application.

Professional attributes

• Ability to communicate clearly orally and in writing (with clients and colleagues)
• Proactive and honest (#nobullshit)
• Fond of self-learning, i.e. you are not afraid to use Stack Overflow