Backend Developer Accel Company

Prodigal is looking for a Lead Engineer for our Product Engineering team to own endtoend development of high performance customerfacing products

Responsibilities

• Drive innovation through both technology and product as an entrepreneur running this team
• Lead and mentor a team of backend frontend and fullstack engineers
• Design and architect systems for scalability and build robust customerfacing applications
• The role involves 50% Individual Contribution(IC) and 50% team management work
• Establish and optimize processes for rapid product iterations including sprint management and A/B experimentation
• Lead code reviews & documentation as well as take on complex tech debts
• Curious to learn and work on multiple programming languages.
• Perform performance analysis ensuring enterpriselevel performance SLAs and uptime.
• Ensure quality and completeness of the product through unit integration and regression capabilities
• Partner across the engineering team to take on companywide initiatives spanning multiple projects. Influence the technical direction for the team and mentor junior engineers
• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems. Responsible for endtoend architecture highlevel design/lowlevel design of various systems and applications.
• Write code and deploy enterprisegrade applications to production emphasizing operational excellence.

Requirements

• B.S./M.S/Equivalent in Computer Science or equivalent experience
• 6 years of software engineering experience with a strong focus on customerfacing products.
• 1 year of experience in leading and building engineering teams.
• Backend engineer with an interest to learn frontend engineering. Bonus if you already have experience with Full Stack development
• Proficiency in at least one programming language with an eagerness to learn and adapt to new languages.
• Experience working with SQL and NoSQL databases such as MongoDB Postgresql etc.
• Experience working with AWS services such as Lambda S3 Cloudfront SQS and more
• Experience working with logging and monitoring tools such as Sentry CW Prometheus ELK etc
• Experience with A/B testing tools keen interest in experimenting with new ideas and staged releases for control user groups.
• Experience with hiring and building a strong engineering team
• Good problem solving critical thinking and communication skills. Should be able to find the right balance between perfection and speed of execution
• Selfstarter and selflearner who is comfortable working in a fast paced environment while continuously evaluating emerging technologies

Our Tech Stack

• Applications built using Node.js Python and React.js
• Databases such as MongoDB AuroraDB Redis
• Deployments on EKS EC2 Lambda and other AWS services

What we offer

• Learn Generative AI & LLMs. We are aggressively building in this space and youll get the opportunity to learn and experiment with the latest technologies
• Fast paced Growth. Youll get the chance to learn from (and teach) some of the brightest and most skilled people youll ever meet.
• Continuous education. As relentless seekers of knowledge we sponsor and support any training materials books courses exam fees for upskilling yourself in areas related to your role but thats not where it ends. If you make a good case for some extra learning were delighted to foot the tab.
• Health insurance. Health always comes first. The health of your family is as important to us as it is to you. We offer insurance coverage for both you and your family.
• Flexible schedule. Were not a clock in clock out company. Morning person Start work while the worlds still sleeping. Night owl Ramp things up while others are winding

About Prodigal

We are a fastgrowing Bay Areabased startup backed by leading investors like Menlo Ventures Accel and YCombinator. We create AI and MLpowered software for the finance and lending industries focused on repayment and debt recovery. We work to improve conversations between call center agents and customers and provide actionable insights. Our products use AI to create nextgeneration speech analytics that support realtime agent guidance automated notes after conversations and call analysis for quality assurance and compliance.

The team has deep technical talent today and we believe there is an opportunity to build an iconic vertical software business that will fundamentally impact how the multitrilliondollar debt industry is managed. Debt has such a massive impact on consumers and prior to Prodigal the industry was saddled with painful low value manual workflows and poor customer experience our mission is to humanize the debt repayment process through automation and data.

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