Senior Software Engineer at Prodigy Finance

What will you do in the role?

• As a Senior Software Engineer joining the team at Prodigy Finance you will be exposed to the functioning of the product, operations and business development teams and you will increasingly take on a leadership and decision-making role as we craft the Prodigy Finance platform. Support more senior team members on larger projects and take ownership of smaller projects ensuring accurate and timely project delivery. Focus on strengthening internal relationships with other disciplines.

What are the key responsibilities of the role?

• Take ownership of the crucial systems powering our loan offer framework, making sure we offer the best available loans to the international students all over the world;
• Own the improvement and expansion of our other Ruby on Rails supporting applications;
• Work with other tech teams, UX designers and Product to redesign and implement industry leading, frictionless customer experiences for all stages of the customer journey, including verification, signing and disbursement;
• Become an integral and trusted member of the tech team; be a team leader, coach and mentor, decision maker and handle a full caseload of hands-on coding/implementation projects;
• Take a leadership and decision-making role in the technical architecture and implementation of the platform build. This includes project prioritization, evaluating technical debt, technical problem resolution and how to incrementally evolve a solution to reach a target architecture while delivering business value;
• Researching and staying abreast of key technical developments and industry trends and innovations

What would the ideal candidate be great at?

• Technical competence – love coding, able to learn new paradigms quickly and look to continuously improve and find better ways of doing things
• Ability to articulate complex technical concepts to a non-technical audience
• Designing and improving existing APIs, making systems work together well
• Understanding the importance of code testing and testing your own code
• Believing and following the best coding practices, code reviews and open feedback
• Keeping UI in mind when building and designing
• Ability to take a feature or product all the way from conception to release
• Teamwork and team spirit; be more motivated by the achievements of the whole team
• Getting up to the front of the bus; get stuck in, execute, generate ideas, have an impact, don’t just sit back and be a passenger
• Attention to detail – you want to make things look good!

Qualifications and experience

• At least 4 years experience in back-end and API development
• At least 6 years overall development experience
• Experience with relational databases like Postgres or MySQL
• Python/Ruby (or other OOP) language experience
• Experience working in a Scrum environment
• Experience designing and integrating with backend APIs
• Experience testing your own code 

Experience that would be nice to have (but we’ll trade off if everything else fits)

• Proficiency with Ruby on Rails is a great plus
• Understanding of machine learning algorithms at a foundation level or better
• Infrastructure-as-code, knowing your way around Amazon Web Services
• Ideally you are language agnostic and eager to try out new languages as needed
• Experience with front-end technologies (HTML/CSS/Javascript, frameworks like React is a plus)
• Experience working in a highly collaborative team
• Start-up experience. Sometimes the earth moves beneath your feet at Prodigy Finance, so you've got to be comfortable with ambiguity, able to wear lots of hats, and adapt easily as we continue to grow