Team Lead/Architect - Boston, Lima, or Buenos Aires - EFL GLOBAL LTD - Cambridge, MA

Who is the Entrepreneurial Finance Lab?

We are an award-winning, for-profit social enterprise company that is accelerating poverty reduction through innovative tools to help entrepreneurs and consumers in emerging markets gain access to capital. We are the proven leader in using alternative data to understand individual credit risk and create opportunity for MSME and consumer financing. Our mission is simple: to unlock the entrepreneurial potential of emerging markets by expanding access to finance for the un-banked. How? Our psychometric assessment technology helps financial institutions evaluate the credit-worthiness of small business owners and consumers who wouldn’t otherwise have traditional access to credit. This scalable, automated, breakthrough technology helps bring the developing world’s most capable, yet previously un-bankable people into the formal financial fold for the first time, empowering them and their economies from the inside-out.

We spun off from a research initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School’s Center for International Development, and now we work with leading financial institutions across 27 countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. With offices in Lima, Boston, Mexico City, Jakarta, Nairobi, and Bangalore, EFL is impacting MSME and consumer finance across the globe. We have been recognized and endorsed by leading development organizations such as the IFC, Inter-American Development Bank, and the G-20.

About the Position:
We are a seeking a proven technical leader who has experience building and running highly autonomous teams building ground-breaking software at tremendous speeds. You will be a blend of architect, coach, and visionary that’s comfortable working in a rapidly changing environment. This position will grow the existing team and take on ownership of the full-stack from DevOps and infrastructure to our online platform to mobile development. You will know how to find and recruit exceptional employees and will have experience releasing new features quickly, in agile environment, and will know how to use great external contractors and experts to flex when needed.

You will lead a team of engineers, internal and external, making day-to-day design decisions and managing team development through usage of scrum best practices. You will design a development process that works and leads to fast product iterations that work across multiple continents for some of the most challenging environmental conditions. In the past, you will have been an uber-efficient engineer and have years of battle scars to prove it.

Primary Responsibilities :
Build, manage, and grow EFL’s engineering team to develop new products in features in an agile environment

Chart the course for what technologies and frameworks EFL uses in infrastructure, mobile, and web components of the stack.

Work with EFL Executive Team and Product Managers to define and translate business and roadmap priorities into requirements and associated resource plans

Guide and lead the effort to translate requirements into functionality delivery through scoping, design, implementation, testing, and final delivery

Build prototypes or POCs as needed to accelerate development

Ability to cover all aspects of SaaS delivery, including documentation, delivery, customer escalations, etc.

Mentor team members to achieve success and professional goals

Who’s a good fit?

Required Qualifications:
BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering or equivalent degree

5+ years of hands-on enterprise application development (SaaS) experience

5+ managing local and remote engineering teams

Ability to break down complex product requirements into scalable solutions while making trade-off decisions to balance resources effectively

Excellent attention to detail with precise written and oral communication skills

Ability to understand and communicate broader strategic goals and to translate that into superior team execution

Advanced proficiency with REST or SOAP web services design and SOA

Proficiency with Git

Past proficiency in either C++, Java, or C#

Past proficiency with Linux, Apache

Preferred Qualifications:
3+ years web development experience in Python, Ruby or PHP with 3-5 years experience with a modern MVC framework (Django, Ruby-on-Rails, Spring, etc)

3+ years experience with MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, or MSSQL

Mobile app development experience

Experience with Amazon Web Services

Experience with a NoSQL implementation/migration

Experience with client-side MVC development node.js, backbone, etc

Experience with R

Any level of experience with Spanish

What is it like to work at EFL?

We’re a group of motivated, smart people trying to tackle a big problem! Our team is driven to make a social impact. As a fast-growing, innovative company, our culture is entrepreneurial, progressive, fast-paced, and multicultural. The name of the game is autonomy, flexibility, collaboration, learning, results, and making an impact. You’ll gain significant exposure to the world of entrepreneurship, emerging market finance and big data, and enjoy an awesome annual company retreat in Peru. This isn’t just your employer, it’s your company. Have an idea to do things better? Implement it. Want flexibility in your schedule? Enjoy it. Want to make an impact? Own it.

We Offer Some Great Perks:

• Opportunities for international travel and/or relocation


• Annual company retreat in South America


• Flexible work schedule and generous time off


• Down-to-earth, motivated, collaborative team!

Location: This position is based either in Boston; Lima, Peru; or Buenos Aires, Argentina. We have a global engineering team, but primarily it is located in both Boston and Peru. You will have the opportunity to travel to visit the team and clients in Peru and likely other EFL countries across the globe to inform the projects you are working on.

How to Apply:
Please apply via this url: https://efl.bamboohr.com/jobs/view.php?id=30