Aiming to train 3,000 people on the AWS and VTEX IO platforms, the program is suitable for newly graduated developers and professionals in career transition
Applications for the third edition of the program are now open. Hiring Coders, promoted by VTEX, a digital commerce platform for large companies and retailers, in conjunction with the Gama Academy, a school that trains professionals for the digital market. Free and online, the course, sponsored by AWS (Amazon Web Services), offers up to 15,000 scholarships and is aimed at newly graduated developers and people in career transition or interested in learning about programming.
For more information and to register, simply access the site program until April 30th. Applications are available to candidates from anywhere in Brazil and, for the first time, from Portugal, one of Europe's leading technology and digital commerce hubs. By the end of the program, the goal is to train 3,000 people on AWS, the most widely adopted and comprehensive cloud offering in the world, and on VTEX IO, VTEX's development platform.
“In addition to empowering industry professionals to develop on the main digital commerce platforms, Hiring Coders has the power to introduce, in a rapidly expanding market full of opportunities, people interested in new career possibilities, including groups that are still underrepresented. in the technology sector, like women”, says Bruna Bueno, People director at VTEX.
“Our main objective is to increase the number of programmers working in the market that is on the rise not only in Brazil, but in different parts of the world. Students will have classes in programming for e-commerce and Full-stack, mastering the languages JS, Node and VTEX IO, in addition to content on soft skills, necessary behavioral skills that are also required by companies in the digital market, such as teamwork. , empathy and versatility”, says Guilherme Junqueira, CEO of Gama Academy.
About Hiring Coders
Created in 2019, Hiring Coders is an educational program that offers scholarships over three months and whose main objective is to train talents to work in the world's leading digital commerce companies. The initiative is part of a series of actions by VTEX to reduce the shortage of professionals and increase diversity in the segment. According to estimates by Brasscom (Association of Information and Communication Technology Companies), by 2025 the technology sector will open 797 thousand vacancies, of which 530 thousand should not be filled due to lack of professionals. Together, the first two editions of Hiring Coders registered more than 50,000 subscribers. In the previous edition, in 2021, 43% of the participants identified themselves as pretos or pardos, 35% as women and 18% as non-binary or transgender.
With asynchronous content, Hiring Coders offers full stack training and contact with professors recognized by the market, in addition to mentoring from VTEX engineers and leaders from leading technology companies. The learning process is based on real challenges, which prepare students for the final hackathon, when the developers of the best APIs (“Application Programming Interfaces”, or “Application Programming Interfaces”) will be awarded. All participants who complete the program will receive the Hiring Coders Certificate and the VTEX IO Certificate.
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Target Audience: newly graduated developers and people in career transition or interested in learning about programming.
For registration and more information, access this link.
Program schedule:
- until April 30: registration
- from April 26 to August 3: full training
To learn more about VTEX's initiatives, in addition to open positions, access this link.
