On Campus; UIUC Software Engineer Team Lead​/Manager

On Campus (UIUC) Software Engineer Team Lead/Manager

Full-time

Avant Credit Corp ("Avant Credit") is a fast-growing startup that offers tremendous advancement opportunities to its employees. Since its launch in late 2012, Avant Credit, a consumer finance company, has changed the way customers borrow money – providing them with a new and unique online experience. Avant Credit uses state‑of‑the‑art analytics methods in order to offer its lowest possible interest rates to the widest range of customers.

Avant Credit has recently secured $34 million in equity and debt financing to continue to grow at an exponential pace ( ). Previously, Avant Credit’s founders created the leading international online short‑term lender currently employing over 1,000 individuals and generating over $700 million in annual revenue. Avant Credit’s founders have also launched an innovative real‑estate investment trust that provides affordable housing options in Chicago, Indianapolis and Baltimore with over 8,000 apartments owned and managed.

In addition, several of Avant Credit’s founders have participated in the prestigious Y‑Combinator startup incubator program in Silicon Valley, the preeminent program of its kind.

You’ll report directly to the co‑founder/VP of Technology and be responsible for leading a team of Student Developers in the build out of the existing Ruby on Rails web application stack as well as any future technologies. Tasks will range from frontend to backend work; such as third‑party service integrations, business logic implementations, CRM buildout, and frontend customer‑facing web application changes.

We are looking for a pragmatic generalist programmer who can balance leading and developing a team of Junior Student Developers, project management, and being a system architect.

• Prior management or team lead experience.
• Entrepreneurial and self‑driven.
• Thrives in unstructured environments but can provide structure for subordinates.
• 3 years previous experience with web application frameworks (Rails, Django, Sinatra, etc.), languages (Python, Ruby, PHP), and relational databases (Postgresql, MySQL).
• Knowledge of development tool creation and application architecture design.
• Worked with service‑based architectures in applications, preferably with experience migrating from a monolithic application to service‑based architecture.
• Ruby experience preferred.
• Experience working with at least 1 web application with significant customer traffic.

• Job is based on the campus of the University of Illinois Urbana‑Champaign.
• Startup culture with access to work directly with senior management.
• Casual dress code.
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield Medical, Dental, & Vision.
• 10 paid vacation days plus 5 days of paid sick time.
• Free cell phone plan.
• Great company events and professional growth training opportunities.