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Senior Data Scientist | London, UK

Lendable Ltd
London
1 week ago
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About Lendable

Lendable is on a mission to make 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 thefastest-growing techcompanies in the UK
  • Profitable since2017
  • Backed by top investors includingBalderton CapitalandGoldman Sachs
  • Loved by customerswith the best reviews in the market (4.9 across 10,000s of reviews on Trustpilot)


So far, we've rebuilt 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 bankswith dated systems and painful processes.

Join us if you want to
Take ownershipacross a broad remit. You are trusted to make decisions that drive a material impact on the direction and success of Lendable from day 1Work in small teams of exceptional people,who are relentlessly resourceful to solve problems and find smarter solutions than the status quoBuild the best technology in-house, using new data sources, machine learning and AI to make machines do the heavy lifting

About the role

We are excited to be hiring a new Senior Data Scientist for our team! Ideally, this role will suit someone with a proven background in building models in credit, lending, or other areas of financial services. Lendable is the market leader in real rate risk-based pricing, offering consumers transparency and product assurance at the point 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 deploy best-in-market risk models.

This role will primarily focus on our UK Cards business, but through team collaboration, you will be exposed to all areas of Lendable. Our team keeps up with the latest advancements in the industry through regular journal clubs.

Our team'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 unstructured data representation.
  • Data scientists work across the business in a multidisciplinary capacity 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 deploy models that contribute to the success 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 Lendable 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 complex 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 related to the financial services domain - a knowledge of Credit Cards is advantageous
  • Confident communicator and contributes effectively within a team environment
  • Experience mentoring or leading others
  • Self-driven and willing to lead 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 talent team
  • Take home task
  • Task debrief and case study interview
  • Meet the leadership team


Life at Lendable

  • The opportunity to scale up one of the world'smost successful fintech companies.
  • Best-in-class compensation, including equity.
  • You can work from home everyMonday and Fridayif you wish - on the other days, those based in the UK come together IRL at ourShoreditch office in Londonto be together, build and exchange ideas.
  • Enjoy afully stocked kitchenwith everything you need to whip up breakfast, lunch, snacks, and drinks in the office every Tuesday-Thursday.
  • We care for ourLendies' well-beingboth physically and mentally, so we offer coverage when it comes to private health insurance
  • We're anequal-opportunityemployer and are looking to make Lendable the most inclusive and open workspace in London


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