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Technical English and Employability
Learn to work and apply for jobs in English: read documentation without translating, write PRs, bug reports, and design documents in plain English, hold your own in a standup and a demo out loud, and run a job search with market judgment. The seven modules start from your actual target — the role, the market, and the English gap that separates you from it — and move through the fundamentals of reading and listening to technical English, written async communication (chat, issues, PRs, commits), writing technical documents in plain language (design docs, ADRs, READMEs, postmortems), spoken technical English (standups, meetings, pair programming, demos), your professional materials (an ATS-ready résumé, LinkedIn, portfolio), and the full hiring process. The final project is the Employability Kit: a cumulative, interview-defensible dossier with your target-role brief, a portfolio with a design doc and ADR, an async communication package, a tailored résumé, and three unscripted English recordings — a pitch, a demo, and a mock interview.
- 56
- lessons
- 7
- modules
- English · Spanish
- available in
- Yes
- certificate
- Free
- access
Outcomes
What you'll be able to do
- Read a job posting in English and decide with judgment whether to apply, identifying your target role, a realistic seniority level, and the salary band
- Read official documentation, issues, changelogs, and stack traces in English without mentally translating, and keep your own technical glossary
- Write chat messages, bug reports, commit messages, and PR descriptions in English that get a response and speed up review
- Write a design document in plain English — with goals, non-goals, alternatives, and risks — and record an architecture decision in an ADR
- Hold a daily standup, a pair programming session, and a five-minute technical demo with audience questions, in English
- Ask for clarification in a meeting without losing authority, and handle non-native accents and bad audio
- Build an ATS-ready résumé, a coherent LinkedIn profile, and a GitHub portfolio an evaluator can clone and run
- Run a job search with method: filter real openings, hold a recruiter screen, and think out loud in English through a technical interview
- Prepare behavioral interviews with STAR stories, and understand at a high level the remote-hiring arrangements from Latin America and Spain: contractor, EOR, local payroll
Before you start
What you need to bring
It's for you if...
- Developers and technical profiles — data, cloud, testing, QA — who can read English with a dictionary but freeze up writing or speaking
- Anyone training in or already working in tech who wants to apply for remote jobs in English
- Devs who already work in English in writing but need to hold a call, a standup, or a technical interview out loud
- Anyone who needs to build or update their résumé, LinkedIn, and portfolio with market judgment, not generically
Requirements and materials
- Functional reading English, roughly A2-B1: you can read technical documentation with the help of a dictionary
- English grammar is not taught from scratch, and this is not certification-exam prep (IELTS, TOEFL, Cambridge)
- Currently training in or working in some technical ecosystem: development, data, cloud, testing, QA, architecture, or product
- At least one project of your own, even a course project, that you can show and run
Content
The syllabus, module by module
Open any of them to see its lessons.
- 1. Introduction: The Filter Nobody Warned You About
- 2. Why English Is the First Filter, Not the Last
- 3. Anatomy of a Job Description
- 4. What B2 or C1 Actually Means in a Real Job Posting
- 5. Self-Assessment and Your English Gap
- 6. Role Map, Real Seniority, and Salary
- 7. Where the Role Actually Exists: Geography, Time Zones, and Remote Hiring
- 8. Project: Your Target Role Brief
- 1. Introduction: The English You Already Know and Don't Use
- 2. The Core Vocabulary of Software
- 3. Reading Official Documentation Without Translating
- 4. The English of Errors, Logs, and Stack Traces
- 5. Issues, Changelogs, and Specs
- 6. Listening: Talks, Accents, and Real Speed
- 7. False Friends and Your Technical Glossary
- 8. Project: Technical Reading Log
- 1. Introduction: Writing Is Half the Job
- 2. How Asynchronous Writing Works in Tech
- 3. The Clear Sentence in Technical English
- 4. Chat Messages That Actually Get Answered
- 5. Issues, Bug Reports, and Commit Messages
- 6. Pull Requests and Code Review in English
- 7. Professional Email and Status Updates
- 8. Project: Async Communication Pack
- 1. Introduction: Speaking Without Freezing Up
- 2. Pronunciation of Technical Terms
- 3. The Daily Standup
- 4. Meetings: Taking and Holding the Floor
- 5. Asking for Clarification Without Losing Authority
- 6. Pair Programming and Explaining Code Out Loud
- 7. Presenting a Demo and Handling Questions
- 8. Project: Recorded Standup and Demo
- 1. Introduction: Evidence Before Speech
- 2. The ATS and How Your Résumé Actually Gets Read
- 3. Bullets That Prove Impact
- 4. Tailoring Your Résumé to Each Job Posting
- 5. LinkedIn and Your Professional Profile
- 6. GitHub and Portfolio as Evidence
- 7. Your English Elevator Pitch
- 8. Project: Complete Application Kit
- 1. Introduction: From the Kit to the Offer
- 2. How Hiring Works in 2026
- 3. Finding Real Openings and Avoiding Noise
- 4. The Recruiter Screen in English
- 5. The Technical Interview in English
- 6. Behavioral Interviews and STAR Stories
- 7. Offers, Negotiation, and Hiring Structures
- 8. Project: Full Interview Simulation
Common questions
What people usually ask
No limit. It's a free guide: come in whenever you like, as often as you like.
No. Modules run from easier to harder, but you can jump to the one you need. Progress is saved per lesson.
Whatever is needed is listed under “What you need to bring”, above. If nothing is listed there, you can start from zero.
In the Club's WhatsApp group, and every two weeks there's a live with an instructor where questions get worked through.
Yes. It's issued automatically once you finish every lesson, with a verifiable code you can share on LinkedIn.
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