Students

Software developers constitute the majority of a Hack4Impact team and work together to make the product come to life. Software developers don't just code; they also participate in many user experience and product decisions.

• You'll be brainstorming with product managers and product designers to conceptualize and build new features.

• You'll be participating in discussions of technical architecture.

• You'll be owning specific features of the product, creating your own issues, pull requests, and reviewing other developers' code.

• You’ll improve engineering standards, tooling, and processes.

Our project tech stacks often include React with TypeScript, but we are passionate about user interface development in general. We've built mobile applications using React Native and have worked on web apps with libraries like SolidJS.

Designers collaborate in cross-functional teams to design our products. They own the process, from ideation to creating wireframes, mock-ups, and user interface designs with a core emphasis on user experience. They are responsible for the holistic design of the product down to the granular details of the UI.

• Work with the Product Manager to define the product and which user needs it satisfies.

• Perform and utilize user research (gather, synthesize, and present findings to the team) to inform design decisions.

• Iterate on designs based on user testing, feedback from other project members, org-wide design critiques, and calls with the nonprofit client.

• Hand off designs to developers for implementation while considering development and time constraints, different states and edge cases, etc.

Product designers in Hack4Impact meet with those on all teams to enhance knowledge sharing and promote design thinking.