Entry-level positions for coding bootcamp grads [Oct 2022]

Unless you’re fortunate enough to be enrolled in a bootcamp that has built-in internship programs (shout out to Epicodus for being one of these), your biggest struggle upon graduation will be landing your first role. Instead of applying to every company on the planet, let’s focus on companies who specifically mention they have or are willing to hire bootcamp grads. Once this list runs out, you can always resume the usual process. Now let’s get some coffee and get to applying 💻.

Here are some of those entry-level positions. We’ll be updating this regularly so come back for more.

Microsoft Leap Apprenticeship

• Location: Multiple
• Type: Full-time — 16-weeks

Key requirements of relevant experience

• Graduated from a coding academy or boot camp and have previous work experience in any field
• Self-taught programmer demonstrating recent development projects or professional experience
• Degree from a community college in computer science or related field
• Degree from a college/university in computer science or related field with a previous career in tech, plus a 2+ year career break

Airbnb — Connect Software Engineering Apprenticeship

• Industry: Technology
• Location: San Francisco Bay Area — No relocation/Remote
• Type: Full-time — 6 months

Key requirements of relevant experience

• You do not have a 4-year Computer Science degree
• You learned to code through online courses, community college classes, or a coding bootcamp
• You have no prior (or less than one year of) professional software engineering experience
• Able to write basic functions and implement control flow in a programming language of your choice (e.g., if statements, for/while loops)
• Able to understand the basics of at least one framework (e.g., React, Rails, Express)

8th Light — Apprentice Software Crafter

• Industry: Consulting
• Location: US
• Type: Full-time
• Applications Close: Monday, December 5, 2022

Key requirements of relevant experience

• An understanding of at least one programming language.
• A basic understanding of Test-Driven Development.
• Professional working experience (not necessarily in software).

Zayo Group: Application Developer — Enterprise apps

• Industry: Telecommunications
• Location: Denver, CO — On-site
• Type: Full-time
• Stack: Javascript, PostgreSQL, SQL, React or Angular

Seed Health: Full Stack Software Engineer

• Industry: Biotechnology Research
• Location: United States Remote
• Type: Full-time

Spire Law: Python Developer

• Industry: Law
• Location: Orlando, FL Hybrid
• Type: Part-time Internship
• Stack: Flask, Django and Dash
• Rate: $25/hr

ASSA ABLOY Group: Software Engineer

• Industry: Wholesale Building Materials
• Location: New Haven, CT
• Full-time · Associate

PowerFlex: Support Software Engineer

• Industry: Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
• Location: United States Remote
• Type: Full-time
• Stack: Python

Akorbi: Software Engineer I

• Industry: Translation and Localization
• Location: Irvine, CA
• Type: Full-time
• Stack: Django, MySQL, Google Cloud App Engine, Cloud Spanner

Ocrolus: Software Support Engineer

• Industry: Financial Services
• Location: New York, NY
• Type: Full-time
• Stack: Python or Java, Postgres

InfluxData: Summer 2023 Engineering Internship

• Industry: Software
• Location: San Francisco, CA
• Type: Internship
• Stack: Javascript/React, Java, Python, Go, C++, or C#

As always, feel free to ignore the job requirements when applying since job postings are meant to describe the perfect candidate and it’s okay that you aren’t perfect 😃