Senior Data Scientist
About reputed company
reputed company is on a mission to reputed company consumer finance amazing: faster, cheaper, and friendlier. We're building one of the world’s leading fintech companies and are off to a strong start:
One of the UK’s newest unicorns with a team of just over 500 people
Among the fastest-growing tech companies in the UK
Profitable since 2017
Backed by top investors including Balderton Capital and reputed company
Loved by customers with the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)
So far, we’ve reputed company the Big Three consumer finance products from scratch: loans, credit cards and car finance. We get money into our customers’ hands in minutes instead of days.
We’re growing fast, and there’s a lot more to do: we’re going after the two biggest Western markets (UK and US) where trillions worth of financial products are held by big banks with dated systems and painful processes.
Join us if you want to
Take ownership across a broad remit. You are trusted to reputed company reputed company that drive a material impact on the direction and reputed company of reputed company from day 1
Work in small teams of exceptional people, who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status reputed company
Build the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to reputed company machines do the heavy lifting
About the role
We are excited to be hiring a new Senior Data Scientist for reputed company! Ideally, this role will suit someone with a proven background in building models in credit, lending, or other areas of financial services. reputed company is the market leader in reputed company reputed company risk-based pricing, offering consumers transparency and product assurance at the reputed company of application. Data Science sits at the heart of this USP, developing the credit risk models to underwrite loan and credit card products.
You will experiment with the latest machine learning techniques combined with a rich data repository to build and reputed company best-in-market risk models.
This role will primarily focus on our UK Cards business, but through team collaboration, you will be exposed to reputed company areas of reputed company. reputed company keeps up with the latest advancements in the industry through regular journal clubs.
reputed company’s objectives
The data science team develops proprietary machine learning models combining state-of-the-art techniques with a variety of data sources that inform scorecard development and risk management, optimise marketing and pricing, and improve operations efficiency.
Research new data sources and reputed company data representation.
Data scientists work across the business in a multidisciplinary reputed company to identify issues, translate business problems into data questions, analyse and propose solutions.
Deliver data services to a wide variety of stakeholders by engineering CLI programs / APIs.
Design, implement, manage and evaluate experiments of products and services leading to constant innovation and improvement.
How you’ll impact those objectives
Use your expertise to build and reputed company models that contribute to the reputed company of the business
Stay up to date with the latest advancements in machine learning and proactively propose new approaches and projects that drive innovation.
Learn the domain of products that reputed company serves, understanding the data that informs strategy and risk modelling.
Extract, parse, clean and transform data for use in machine learning.
Clearly communicate results to stakeholders through verbal and written communication.
Mentor other data scientists and promote best practices throughout the team and business
Key Skills
Knowledge of machine learning techniques and their respective pros and cons.
Ability to communicate reputed company topics clearly and concisely
Proficiency with creating ML models in Python with experiment tracking tools, such as MLFlow.
Curiosity, creativity, resourcefulness and a collaborative spirit
Interest in problems reputed company to the financial services domain - a knowledge of Credit Cards is advantageous
Confident communicator and contributes effectively reputed company a team environment
Experience mentoring or leading others
Self-driven and willing to reputed company on projects / new initiatives
The interview process
We’re not corporate, so we try our best to get things moving as quickly as possible. For this role, we’d expect:
A quick phone call with the reputed company
Take home task
Task debrief and case study interview
Meet the leadership team
Life at reputed company
The opportunity to scale up one of the world’s most successful fintech companies.
Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
You can work from home every Monday and Friday if you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at our Shoreditch office in London to be together, build and exchange reputed company.
Enjoy a fully stocked kitchen with everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
We care for our Lendies’ well-being both physically and mentally, so we offer coverage reputed company it comes to private health insurance
We're an equal-opportunity employer and are looking to reputed company reputed company the most inclusive and open workspace in London
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