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Software Engineering Team Lead

Engineering · Full-time · Piedmont, Italy

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 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 who invest in tomorrow's leaders whilst 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 and not just their current circumstances and credit history. 

What will you do in the role?

This role is perfect for an experienced Software Engineer who, as a Software Development Team Lead, will balance their role as a senior engineer on an Agile development team and line-manage team members within a culture of servant leadership. You will help 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 the occurrence and recurrence of 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 recognise and develop talent, and you can 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

  • Optimise the business value added by the team given the constraints of code quality, priority and team skills.

  • 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 sound judgement and decision-making under pressure to ensure delivery against goals

  • Improvement-focused: you are alert to opportunities to improve ways of working to create a more effective, enjoyable and efficient work environment

  • Contributes to creating a positive and collaborative team environment

Qualifications and experience:

  • 8+ years of professional experience in programming

  • 4+ years of professional experience in a backend  framework such as Django or Ruby on Rails.

  • You must have a solid understanding of  frontend frameworks like React and NextJS

  • Writing unit and integrated tests

  • Demonstrable track record of working with a relational database, for example, PostgreSQL

  • Professional fluency in open-source tools, including GitHub, Jenkins, and others

  • Experience working within an agile environment

  • Comfortable with cloud platforms such as AWS

  • Experience with the development of microservices

  • Comfortable with the development of RESTful API backends

  • A strong foundation in modern DevOps culture

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

  • Solid DevOps skills, including monitoring, testing, automation and integration
  • A track record leading a high-performance team as a line manager or team lead
  • Comfortable with Async Message Brokers such as RabbitMQ