Organization
M4A Foundation - CrowdDoing

Medicinal Foods - Browser based App Developer

Duration
Recruiting through Oct 30th
Location
El Dorado Hills, CA

Opportunity Details

Ongoing

Remote

Recruiting through Oct 30th

El Dorado Hills, CA 95762

About this Opportunity

Mission Statement: CrowdDoing.world's Foods.& Herbs for Stress,Sleep & Anxiety Initiative aims to give people agency by educating people about their options with regards to their natural remedies for these aspects of their mental health. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science, and recommending to individuals optimal combinations of teas, tinctures, and powders that can be used to achieve each individual's mental health goals. We conduct this research with the goal of allowing people to make informed decisions about their health and to increase access to healthy stress-coping alternatives. These healthy coping mechanisms can reduce reliance on harmful self-medication practices such as alcohol abuse or behavior likely to lead to opioid addiction. Value Proposition: Tinctures, teas and powders from herbal medicine combinations can represent better risk/reward ratios Through citizen science and data science over time we have the aspirational goal to meet and exceed evidence parity with regards to evidence of effectiveness for herbal medicines for stress & anxiety compared with pharmaceuticals. That mission is attractive for people to participate in as its an opportunity for global collaboration to create increasingly usable natural medicine for stress and anxiety. Each person can go upstream of their mental health challenges and adopt healthier coping mechanisms.

Project Name:

Medicinal Foods

Project Duration: 6-12 months (Ongoing)

Project outline:

  • Use citizen science to gather and validate data about the different foods and food-preparations from both traditional knowledge and current scientific enquiry.
  • To make such data available for use by anyone in the world through online apps.
  • Role Summary:

    · Create an equivalent app for browser-based access using current technologies such as HTML5, JavaScript

    Essential Tasks:

    · Research and develop in collaboration or independently new user-facing features

    • Ensure the technical feasibility of and provide input to UI/UX designs
    • Ensure high-quality implementation standards and brand consistency
    • Be part of shaping the technological landscape of the company
    • Get feedback from, and build solutions for, users and customers
    • Collaborate with back-end developers and designers to improve usability
    • Develop high-quality prototypes for new functionality or AB testing
    • Constantly improve the architecture and performance of the UI features of the product
    • Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
    • Build reusable code and libraries for future use
    • Document testing- and performance-optimization of the developed applications
    Skills & Competencies:

    * Passion for analyzing and improving runtime efficiency and memory footprint.

    * Excellent problem solving, critical thinking, and communication skills.

    Software tools & Program knowledge:

    * Experience of common JavaScript build tools and development environments (e.g. Node, Bower, Gulp, Grunt, RequireJS, Webpack etc.)

    * Experience of writing automated tests for JavaScript (e.g. Jasmine, Karma, Mocha, Chai, etc.)

    * Experience using server-side frameworks/languages (e.g. Ruby on Rails, PHP)

    * Experience using HTML(5), CSS(3) and CSS pre-processing (LESS, Sass, PostCSS, etc.)

    * Experience developing against 3rd party APIs

    * Experience of UI/UX design and development

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    Mission Statement: CrowdDoing.world's Foods.& Herbs for Stress,Sleep & Anxiety Initiative aims to give people agency by educating people about their options with regards to their natural remedies for these aspects of their mental health. We do so by analyzing scientific research and clinical evidence, gathering new evidence through data science and citizen science, and recommending to individuals optimal combinations of teas, tinctures, and powders that can be used to achieve each individual's mental health goals. We conduct this research with the goal of allowing people to make informed decisions about their health and to increase access to healthy stress-coping alternatives. These healthy coping mechanisms can reduce reliance on harmful self-medication practices such as alcohol abuse or behavior likely to lead to opioid addiction. Value Proposition: Tinctures, teas and powders from herbal medicine combinations can represent better risk/reward ratios Through citizen science and data science over time we have the aspirational goal to meet and exceed evidence parity with regards to evidence of effectiveness for herbal medicines for stress & anxiety compared with pharmaceuticals. That mission is attractive for people to participate in as its an opportunity for global collaboration to create increasingly usable natural medicine for stress and anxiety. Each person can go upstream of their mental health challenges and adopt healthier coping mechanisms.

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