Senior Data Scientist

LendingPoint

$120K — $145K *
US-AnywhereRemote in United States
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's in a quantitative field; Master's preferred
  • 2+ years of experience in fintech or financial services
  • Expert knowledge in Python or R, and SQL
  • Experience with GCP and/or Hadoop for analytics
  • Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment

Responsibilities

  • Build credit, fraud, and pricing models for real-time lending decisions
  • Utilize advanced machine learning techniques with large data sets
  • Collaborate with product and engineering teams for model deployment
  • Assess new statistical and modeling approaches for improved credit decisions
  • Optimize SQL programs for efficiency
  • Conduct data wrangling, ETL, and exploration tasks

Benefits

  • Excellent medical, dental, and vision plans
  • 401(k) matching
  • Paid holidays
  • Team-oriented work environment
  • Ongoing training and investment in employees
Full Job Description
What You'll Do Day to Day:

We are looking for a senior data scientist who shares our vision of building sophisticated risk models to advance financial inclusion and access to responsible credit. In this role you will help develop best-in-class credit risk, fraud, income verification, and marketing response models. The candidate is expected to have strong data analytics skills, statistical background, machine learning knowledge, and a passion for solving problems in innovative ways to drive business results.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:
  • Assist in building industry-leading credit, fraud, and pricing models to drive real-time lending decisions for hundreds of thousands of borrowers every month.
  • Leverage advanced machine learning techniques and complex data sources such as credit bureau information at large scale to help build sophisticated credit and fraud models.
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to deploy models into production environment.
  • Evaluate new statistical and modeling approaches and alternate data sources to drive better credit decisions.
  • Optimize complex SQL programs for speed and efficiency.
  • Perform data wrangling, ETL, and data exploration tasks.

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Bachelor's in a quantitative field (e.g., Mathematics, Data Science, Statistics, Economics, Finance, etc.). Master's degree preferred.
  • 2+ years' experience in fintech or financial services applying statistical and machine learning predictive techniques.
  • Expert knowledge in one of the statistical programming languages such as Python or R, and database languages such as SQL
  • Experience using GCP and/or Hadoop systems for distributed analytics and data processing.
  • Ability to work in fast-paced environment.

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