Data Scientist

As a Data Scientist, you will lead projects that derive value from our unique, rich and rapidly growing data. Specifically, you will do analysis and build models that will help drive originations and reduce losses for our business loan products.

Specific problems you will solve include:

• How can we detect fraud and avoid making loans to businesses who are unlikely to repay?
• How should we size loans to balance risk and growth? What, if any, external data should we invest in to improve the performance of our credit models?
• How do we optimize our marketing? For example, what is the optimal frequency and timing of emails?

Requirements:

1. 2-4 years of relevant industry experience

2. Experience developing and deploying machine learning and statistical models

3. Strong quantitative intuition and data visualization skills for ad-hoc and exploratory analysis

4. The versatility to communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences

5. A willingness to solve problems using whichever tool is most appropriate for the situation, balancing multiple business and technical constraints

Preferred:

1. A graduate degree in statistics, applied mathematics, computer science, physical sciences, or a similar technical field

2. Experience with lending and/or financial data

Technologies we use and teach:

Python (numpy, pandas, sklearn, xgboost, TensorFlow)

MySQL, Blockchain

AWS