Job Description

Prodigy Finance - who are we?

Prodigy Finance is a platform that delivers socially responsible financial services, making it possible for students from more than 150 countries to fulfil their dream of studying at the worlds top universities and schools by financing their international postgraduate studies whilst delivering competitive financial and social returns to alumni, institutional and private investors.

This borderless and innovative model enables education loan financing to students from across the globe whilst using predicted post-degree affordability rather than present-day salary. Since 2007, Prodigy Finance has extended over US$1.8 billion through the platform to fund over 35,000 students.

Prodigy Finance is fueled by impact investors and other privately qualified entities who invest in tomorrow's leaders whilst earning a financial and social return. Prodigy Finances borderless lending model enables students to apply for a loan based on their future earning potential and not just their current circumstances and credit history.

What will you do in the role?

As a mid-level software engineer, you will help extend some of our core systems and spearhead smaller projects. This role fits in the RSC domain, which focuses on the customer journey from the point where a customers loan is created up to where it is paid off. The RSC domain consists of three high-level functions, namely loan servicing, payments and collections. Although this role fits inside a team dedicated to the loan servicing function, the space is highly collaborative and engineers are exposed to the wider domain. To support the loan servicing function, you will be involved in building and evolving our loan management system, which spans numerous micro services.

What are some of the roles and responsibilities of this role?

• Be an integral and trusted member of the tech team
• Be a mentor to new team members and handle a full caseload of hands-on coding/implementation 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
• You classify, store and handle data in accordance with policies
• You take responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce. Be an expert in Python (and be comfortable with Ruby on Rails) and have strong technical knowledge across all parts of the tech stack
• You maintain high test coverage and peer review colleagues pull requests
• Research and stay abreast of key technical developments, industry trends and innovations
• Complete reasonable tasks as requested within the broad parameters of the role
• Develop a deep understanding of the RSC domain and evolve the technical systems which underpin it

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
• 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 your own individual tasks
• Mindfulness; be considerate of the implications of your work, really care about what you are doing and the impact of your contribution
• Teamwork and team spirit; we are all contributing to the same platform, so you need to not only be a great individual contributor but be more motivated by the achievements of the whole team - 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 to the front of the bus; get stuck in, execute, generate ideas, have an impact, dont just sit back and be a passenger
• Ideally you will have some experience with Python or Ruby on Rails, plus 3 years general work experience as a developer.

Qualifications and experience

• 3 - 6 years experience in programming
• 1+ years experience in a scripting language such as Python, Rails or PHP
• Comfortable with development of RESTful API backends
• Experience with development of microservices
• Familiarity with Async Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ
• Familiarity with concepts such as MVC and have a basic understanding of web frameworks
• You must have a basic understanding of Javascript, CSS and HTML
• Demonstrable track record of working with a relational database, for example, PostgreSQL
• Professional fluency in open source tools, including github, Jenkins, and others
• Comfortable with cloud platforms such as AWS
• Capacity and inclination to learn and you must be passionate about building scalable systems
• Comfortable with working in a technically complex domain (e.g. loan servicing or payments)

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

• Experience working within an agile environment using test-driven development (TDD)
• Solid DevOps skills, including monitoring, testing, automation and integration

Our Purpose:

At Prodigy, we are inspired and driven by our purpose to provide equal access to life-changing education globally.

To achieve this purpose, our team is committed to living our values, which enable us to focus on the right things and show up in a way that enables our success.

Our values:

We are doing something big here - Our Passion and Purpose drive us! We are doing something life-changing in the world. Something that changes the status quo.

Bigger than us - Our purpose and our customer guides everything we do! Our work here is bigger than us as individuals and our own egos. Its about doing the best work of our lives in service of the greater good.

Grow bravely together - Curiosity and collaboration are at the heart of what we do! We have a relentless desire to continuously improve and work together to evolve our business and ourselves. We are open to the new and always stay curious.

Keep pushing forward - We have grit, resilience and creativity! What we are doing is not always easy. We embrace the challenge. We never give up at the first hurdle. We always keep moving forward.

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