Remote Frontend Software Developer Volunteer

Salary: £29,000 - 53,000 per year

Requirements:

• A desire to use our skills, experience and dedication for humanitarian purposes
• Good team player with leadership and/or project management experience or ambition
• Exceptional communication skills, including explaining technical work to non-technical people and understanding partner needs and requirements
• Adaptable, resilient, and solution-oriented
• Self-motivated and organised
• Ability to commit time to our volunteer role
• Three or more years of professional experience in a software development team as a developer, tester, or in a similar role
• For web development, experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React, and ideally at least one server-side language such as PHP or Python
• Experience and proficiency working with Python
• Experience of, or willingness to learn, testing regimes including unit testing, regression testing, and continuous integration
• Project management experience and experience working with non-technical clients
• Collaborative code management using Git and GitHub
• Desirable: experience in volunteer organisations or open source projects
• Desirable: experience with ESRI GIS products or other geospatial technology
• Desirable: experience with systems engineering
• Desirable: interest in data engineering or data science such as ML, DL, AI, or statistics
• Desirable: humanitarian knowledge or experience

Responsibilities:

• Work on our external projects that require a frontend software skillset, such as hazard exposure platforms, conflict incident visualisation, and custom data visualisation tools
• Collaborate with external partners such as UN agencies, international NGOs, and academic institutions
• Work with data science and data engineering volunteers to enhance software used in data processing
• Support internal systems maintenance in collaboration with our IT support engineer
• Attend and represent us at technical conferences
• Train other volunteers or external organisations on data engineering tools and processes

Technologies:

• AI
• CSS
• Frontend
• GIS
• Git
• GitHub
• Support
• JavaScript
• PHP
• Python
• React
• Web
• Data-Science

More:

MapAction is a leading humanitarian mapping charity delivering information services and products that improve decision-making in disasters and conflicts. We work with local organisations, global UN partners, NGOs, the Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement, regional entities, and national authorities. Our work is driven by a skilled volunteer community supported by a small paid staff team, with training, skill-sharing, and team building at the heart of our culture. Volunteers may participate in projects, deployments, training events, and conferences, and should be based in the UK or within reasonable reach of the UK for in-person activities. We are committed to equal opportunities and welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Key dates for the volunteer process are provided in the role information, and applicants must be available for those stages.

last updated 40 week of 2026