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?


As an intermediate 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 Apply and Loan Offer domain, which facilitates the application process of our customer journey and the eventual offer they receive. This role has a mix of customer facing elements and complex backends which includes work with data models.


What are the key responsibilities of the 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.
• Collaborate with product managers and designers to create seamless and intuitive user experiences.
• Take responsibility for the state of the code you both inherit and produce. Have strong technical knowledge across all parts of the tech stack.
• Review code changes and coordinate deployments using CI/CD pipelines.
• Assist in architectural decision-making and technical problem resolution.
• Maintain high test coverage and peer review colleagues’ pull requests.
• Research and stay abreast of key technical developments and industry trends and innovations.
• Take ownership of coding projects from conception to release, ensuring high quality and timely delivery.

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 judgment; able to make good decisions, be trusted, respected and dependable, be proactive and responsive, ask the right questions, raise flags at the right time and be able to prioritize.
• 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, don’t just sit back and be a passenger.
• Attention to detail – you want to make things look good!

Qualifications and experience

• Proven experience as a React Developer with a portfolio of pixel-perfect, responsive web applications
• Deep knowledge of React.js, including lifecycle methods, hooks, and state management (e.g., Redux, Context API).
• 4+ years’ experience in Javascript, CSS and HTML
• Familiarity with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), Web performance, metrics and optimisation
• Experience with modern UI frameworks (Material-UI, Tailwind CSS, etc.) and responsive design principles
• Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Experience in Python/Ruby for developing RESTful API backends is a bonus
• Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
• Familiarity with testing frameworks such as Jest or Enzyme
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Dev Ops practices