Senior Data Scientist, Credit

The role

You will design, build, and deploy supervised learning models to power credit decisions. You will partner with credit risk and portfolio teams to translate business questions into modeling problems and monitor production models.

What you will do

• Design, build, and deploy supervised learning models from first experiment through production
• Partner with credit risk and portfolio teams to translate business questions into modeling problems
• Communicate the trade-offs between modeling problems and business questions
• Monitor models in production to catch drift and validate performance
• Apply software engineering practices including test-driven development, code review, and refactoring
• Explore new data sources and modeling approaches using the Python data stack

Required qualifications

• A degree in a quantitative field
• 1+ years of work experience in a related role
• Experience creating, deploying, and managing supervised learning models in a production system
• Experience writing tested, reviewed, reproducible code for data pipelines and model training
• Fluency in the Python data stack
• Familiarity with working at the command line, shell scripting, databases, and cloud computing services
• Ability to travel ~4+ times per year for high quality in-person collaboration

Nice to have

• Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech
• Experience with Airflow, Dagster, or other data pipeline platforms

Benefits

• Paid time off
• 401(k) match
• Monthly wellness stipend
• Health/dental/vision insurance options
• Disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible spending account (for childcare and healthcare)
• Life insurance
• Remote-first work environment

Before you apply

• Mission Lane is not sponsoring new applicant employment authorization
• Please no third-party recruiters
• Verify that the information in your application is accurate and complete

About the company

Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company based in the U.S., with headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. The company offers credit cards under the Mission Lane brand name with better, clearer terms.