Data Scientist (Flowcast, San Francisco)

Salary Competitive

Flowcast powers smarter credit decisions with AI to unlock credit for the underserved SME market. This is an outstanding opportunity to join a rapidly growing, series A, remote-friendly fintech with a dynamic team. You will be building the future of trade finance and SME lending using cutting-edge AI/ML techniques.


Flowcast leverages its patented machine learning methodologies to create high-performing predictive models that assess risk and enable lenders to unlock credit to all size businesses at scale. Flowcast’s models offer unparalleled explainability in understanding the root cause of a business’ creditworthiness, the risk of delinquency, the timeliness of repayment and the likelihood of dilution of their transactions. Unlike traditional risk assessments, the API-based solution updates and monitors the risk assessment of the borrower in real-time based on alternative data and Flowcast’s proprietary data.


The data science team is at the heart Flowcast. They are looking for a Data Scientist for their core machine learning team to keep up with customer demand. The ideal teammate is an exceptional data scientist looking to take ownership of critical components of Flowcast's proprietary machine learning platform.


What you’ll be doing at Flowcast:

  • Build machine learning models through all stages of development from design through training, validation, and monitoring in production to predict credit risk

  • Collaborate with engineering to deploy machine learning models in production environments

  • Carry out advanced statistical analyses of millions of financial transactions to discover underlying trends

  • Construct ETL processes to enable large-scale feature calculations using the latest distributed computing technologies

  • Apply the latest explainability frameworks to provide visibility into machine learning outputs

  • Write clean, modular and well-documented code that forms the backbone of our product

  • Communicate the trade-off between speed and technical debt to high-level stakeholders including enterprise clients and executives


Things that make you a good fit:

  • 2+ years of work experience in machine learning in an industry setting

  • Solid understanding of statistical theory

  • Experience deploying scalable models in production environments both on-premise and in the cloud e.g. GCP, AWS, Azure

  • Strong Python programming skills

  • Proficient with popular data processing and machine learning frameworks e.g. pandas, sci-kit-learn

  • Experience with big data technologies e.g. Spark

  • Experience with SQL and NoSQL databases, and proficient in SQL and ETL jobs

  • Excellent professional written and verbal communication skills


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Perks and benefits

This job comes with several perks and benefits

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Remote work allowed
Remote work allowed

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Work life balance

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