Senior Software Engineer - SE4 (Repay, Service, Collections)

Prodigy Finance

South Africa
Permanent
Full-time

1 month ago

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 world’s 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 that invest in tomorrow's leaders while earning a financial and social return. Prodigy Finance’s borderless lending model enables students to apply for a loan based on their future earning potential, not just their current circumstances and credit history.Why is this an exciting opportunity?Established core architecture with room to expand:

Established micro service and applications architecture that is event-driven
Continuous delivery ensures your contributions are reflected immediately
Mature data infrastructure allows for engineering to incorporate predictive modelling

Raise our payments function to new levels:

Integration into global payment providers
International in-currency payments are supported; next up: cross-currency payments
Tech-led initiatives to shift from operations being back-office driven to customer-driven

Modern and empowering way of working:

DevOps culture allows engineering teams not only to understand but also form a critical part of their domain
Engineering contributions have a real impact on the business and, in turn, our customers
Full autonomy - Business focuses on what needs to be done, while engineering teams focus on the how
International team with office space in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa

What will you do in the role?This role is perfect for an experienced Software Engineer who, as a Technology Team Lead, will balance their role as a senior engineer on an Agile development team and line managing team members within a culture of servant leadership. You will help to build a product that makes a very real difference in the world. The sense of impact and reward will be huge.Roles and responsibilities

Lead, coach and mentor other team members, as well as perform cross-training and facilitate information sharing among team members
Line management of team members and performance reviews
Assist with the development of functional designs and resolve complex design issues.
Adopt an influential role guiding other functions on implementation, scale, learning and delivering software
Encourage and facilitate the establishment of new software development, testing and documentation standards
Resolve or assist with escalated software application issues as needed
Lead and coordinate activities to develop and execute plans to mitigate production issues
Oversee and contribute to the documentation of production support processes

Facilitate root cause analysis within the team to identify resolutions to software or business process issues.
Own and champion engineering and operational excellence
Set clear, measurable quality goals in a data-driven way

Interface with a diverse stakeholder base - business leaders, product development counterparts and partner technology organisations
Represent the technology perspective for a specific team in various forums

What would the ideal candidate be great at?

A forward-thinking approach to dealing with current and emerging bottlenecks
You’re always researching ways to educate the engineering team on new methods and techniques
You recognize and develop talent, and you have the ability to optimise the engineering team for effectiveness and productivity
You value skills development. You’re a great mentor and teacher who exhibits patience and thoughtfulness in understanding the needs of others and helping them to achieve their goals. You work with your team members to understand mistakes made and how to learn from them.
You foster a culture of continuous engineering improvement through mentoring, feedback, and metrics
Take responsibility for coding core-feature implementation projects and Greenfield projects. Make an impactful contribution, ask great questions, and execute high-quality work
Take part in the peer review of colleagues’ pull requests
Desire and willingness to work in an agile, collaborative, innovative, flexible and team-oriented environment
Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to mentor and coach fellow team members
Capacity and inclination to learn, and you must be passionate about building scalable systems
Display good judgement and decision-making under pressure to ensure delivery against goals
Improvement-focused; is alert to opportunities to improve ways of working in an effort to create a more effective, enjoyable and efficient work environment
Contributes to creating a positive and collaborative team environment

Qualifications and experience

8+ years’ experience in programming
4+ years’ experience in a scripting language such as Python, Rails or PHP
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
Experience with the development of microservices
Comfortable with the development of RESTful API backends
Comfortable with Async Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ
A strong foundation on modern DevOps culture

Experience that would be nice to have (but we’ll 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
A track record leading a high-performance team as a line manager or team lead

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