Back End Developer |Python| | Data and Analytics | Bangalore| India

THE COMPANY

MPOWER's borderless loans enable students from around the world to realize their full academic & career potential by attending top universities in the U.S and Canada.

As a mission-oriented FinTech / EdTech company, we move extremely fast and leverage the latest technologies, global best practices, and heavy analytics to tackle one of the biggest challenges in financial inclusion. We're backed by over $150 million in equity capital from top global investors, which enables our fast-growth and provides our company with financial stability and a clear path to an IPO over the coming years.

Our global team is composed of ex-management consultants, financial services and technology professionals, and other experts in their respective fields. We work hard, have fun, and believe greatly in our cause. For us, MPOWER's mission of making this mission is personal.

As a member of our team, you'll be challenged to think quickly, act autonomously, and constantly grow, creatively in an environment where fast change and exponential growth is the norm. ideation and implementation happens very quickly. We value feedback and emphasize personal and professional development by providing the resources you need to further your skills and grow with the company. MPOWER is committed to cultivating your strengths and curiosity and helping you make an immediate impact.

MPOWER has been named one of the best fintechs to work for by American Banker for the past 5 years in a row. We are honored to be nominated by multiple agencies and publications for our leadership in Tech, diversity and social impact. We pride ourselves on being a "growth company for grown-ups," where there are no pool tables but rather great health, education, and maternity/paternity benefits instead. Our team diversity has been recognized as well; we're one of the most diverse workforces in the world in terms of nationality, gender, religion, age, ****** orientation, and educational background.

THE ROLE

You will be tasked with building and maintaining MPOWER's various range of products. You'll also play a key role in development and deployment, to provide insights that enable the company in making sound business decisions. This includes, but is not limited to:

Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes
Developing and adhering to best-practices for developing applications
Optimizing and improving functionalities of the existing system
Contributing to team's performance improvement and collaboration
Sharing knowledge of best practices to guide development and continued analysis targeted to improve processes, tools, and data sources.
THE QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor's in degree in computer science, information management systems or a related field
Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework (such as Django, Flask, etc.)
Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries
Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
Writing code that's reusable, testable and efficient.
Good understanding of server-side templating languages
Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
Understanding of accessibility and security compliance
Knowledge of user authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments
Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
Familiarity with event-driven programming in Python
A passion for financial inclusion and access to higher education is a must, as well as comfortable working with a global team across multiple-time zones and sites!

In addition, you should be comfortable working in a fast growth environment, meaning a small agile team, fast-evolving roles and responsibilities, variable workload and tight deadlines, a high degree of autonomy, and 80-20 everything.

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