We are looking for an experienced Full-Stack Developer to help us take an exciting nonprofit project to the next level!



About the project:

The Clothing Loop makes it easy and fun to share pre-loved clothes by connecting people in local communities that share a bag of clothes.

We are buying more and more garments and wearing them shorter and shorter. The Clothing Loop tackles this growing problem – while connecting people in the neighbourhood in a fun and sustainable way. The idea of the Clothing Loop is simple: (large) bags filled with clothing travel a route past all participants in a particular city or neighbourhood. Do you receive the bag at home? Then you can take out what you like and put back something that is still in good condition, but ready for a new owner. Then you take the bag to the next neighbour on the list.

We started a year ago in Amsterdam in the Netherlands as a corona-proof, local alternative for clothing swap events and now have more than 7500 participants spread over more than 210 chains across the country. The success has now been picked up by numerous (national) media. Our goal is to spread this initiative globally. To this end, we are building an online platform where anyone, anywhere, can start or join a chain.


The Clothing Loop has been adopted by the global Slow Fashion Movement.



What we are looking for:

We have developed a web application to support a real life project. The Clothing Loop is currently used by over 15000 people via a spreadsheet, and we have developed a web app suitable for this use case.
We have currently built an initial web app prototype and need a full-stack web developer to support the current team (two developers) to implement the platform.

Our stack includes:

• React
• Node.js
• Firebase
• Typescript

Knowledge of the above technologies is desirable, but not essential. However, some professional experience on web app development would be ideal as you might be required to develop new features.


How we work:

We communicate through our Slack channel, contribute on GitHub and have a weekly check-in - usually we have a Zoom call on Mondays evening (7.30pm CEST time) which is about 20/30minutes. We expect a commitment of about 4 hours per week (this can be flexible, depending on your availability!) and ideally for a long period of time.



Get in touch if you are interested in joining our volunteering team and, if you are a good fit, we can arrange a Zoom call to further discuss the project!