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.

Why join Prodigy Finance?

• Be a part of a pioneering global growth company.
• Experience the excitement and learn from being part of an incredibly fast-growing young company.
• Be pivotal in scaling the business by identifying smart solutions and partnering with tech at the heart of it.
• Enjoy the agility and flexibility offered by a startup culture. A sociable, relaxed and friendly work environment.
• We will help you make your mark. Make a real impact on the business and experience a steep learning curve with huge opportunities to grow and develop.
• Gain an inside perspective on the functioning of a venture-backed Fintech startup, backed by top VCs, learn day-to-day management and build functional expertise.
• Build a platform that helps to make a very real difference in the world.

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. You will also support more senior team members on larger projects and take ownership of smaller projects ensuring accurate and timely project delivery. This role sits within the Choose domain, which focuses on the customer journey from the point where customers start their application with us, until their loan is disbursed.

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.
• Classify, store and handle data in accordance with policies.
• Take responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce. Have strong technical knowledge across all parts of the tech stack.
• Maintain high test coverage and peer review colleagues pull requests.
• Research and stay abreast of key technical developments and industry trends and innovations.
• Complete reasonable tasks as requested within the broad parameters of the role.

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 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.
• 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.

Qualifications and experience

• 4+ years experience in programming
• 2+ 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 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
• You have experimented with 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

Our Purpose and Values

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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