Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company based in the U.S., focused on providing accessible credit solutions. The Senior Manager / Principal Data Scientist will innovate and improve machine learning models to help make efficient financial decisions for customers, collaborating with business leaders and technical experts.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning models to solve practical problems and help our business and customers reach their financial goals
• Partner with business leaders and technical experts across the company to develop new data sources, improve our modeling methodology, and apply models with sound risk management

Skills

• Has created, deployed, and managed supervised learning models in production systems for vital applications and enjoys being a technical mentor
• Has a PhD in a quantitative field and 3+ years of experience in a related role
• Has a BS / MS in a quantitative field and 7+ years of experience in a related role
• You share best practices for software engineering and can help smart, experienced data scientists with complex technical problems - especially operationalizing and evaluating models for real-world applications
• Considers themself a generalist data scientist more motivated by practical solutions than theoretical elegance
• Practices solid fundamentals with software engineering (test-driven development, code review, refactoring) and the PyData stack (numpy, scikit-learn, pandas, etc.)
• Is interested in a wide range of ML solutions, including established tools (e.g. Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLFlow), emerging tools (like Chalk, BentoML, or DVC), and developing in-house tools
• Experience managing a strong technical team
• Experience building predictive models end to end
• Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech
• Interest in developing ways to train, interpret, and deploy neural network architectures for time series classification tasks

Benefits

• Participation in our annual incentive program
• Equity are dependent on role
• Unlimited paid time off
• 401(k) match
• A monthly wellness stipend
• Health/ dental/ vision insurance options
• Disability coverage
• Paid parental leave
• Flexible spending account (for childcare and healthcare)
• Life insurance
• A remote-friendly work environment
• Work: An engaging culture with access to training programs and advancement opportunities
• Life: Full health, dental, and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Account (for medical and childcare expenses), paid parental leave, and a 401k Company Match
• Balance: Generous PTO, flexible schedules, a Calm App subscription, and more

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