Software Engineer at Prodigy Finance

What you will do in the role:

As a software engineer joining the team at Prodigy 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.

Specific responsibilities are to:

• 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, resource planning for sprint cycles, planning and designing core feature implementation and Greenfield projects
• Execute a number of projects which contribute to the build of our platform. Take responsibility for coding core-feature implementation projects and Greenfield projects. Make an impactful contribution, ask great questions, and execute high-quality work

What you need to be great at:

• Technical competence; love coding, able to learn new paradigms quickly, code for fun outside of work – not because someone is paying you to - an look to continuously improve and find better ways of doing things
• Excellent critical judgement; able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time, able to prioritize and plan workloads for the team
• Mindfulness; be considerate of the implications of your work, really care about what you are doing and the impact of your contribution
• Coaching and mentoring; teaching concepts, listening and adapting, empathy and a motivation to understand what makes others tick
• Team leading and team spirit; we are all contributing to the same platform, so be a great individual contributor but be more motivated by the leading the team to achieve - we only win if the team wins - see the impact of your own work and positively influence and help the work of others
• Getting up the front of the bus; get stuck in, execute, generate ideas, have an impact, don’t just sit back and be a passenger

Who we are looking for; track record must-haves:

• 2 - 4 years’ experience in a scripting language such as Rails, Python or PHP, familiarity with concepts such as MVC and an understanding of web frameworks
• Demonstrable track record of working with a relational database, for example, PostgreSQL
• Professional fluency in open source tools, including GitHub, Jenkins, and others
• Experience of Cloud platforms such as AWS, Heroku or EngineYard
• Capacity and inclination to learn and must be passionate about web development

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

• Ideally, you will have some experience of Ruby on Rails, plus 2 years of general work experience as a developer. We will consider you if you have less work experience, but you need to live and breathe open-source coding and possess the attributes described, with the potential to become a truly great programmer
• Startup 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