Senior Staff Data Scientist, SoFi
$172.8-297k
This role is also eligible for a bonus + long term incentives
Mobile & online personal finance services
Job no longer available
Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$172.8-297k
This role is also eligible for a bonus + long term incentives
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate has a deep understanding of machine learning algorithms, strong programming skills, and a proven track record of driving successful data science projects from conception to deployment
- 8+ years of experience in Data Science and machine learning, with a focus on developing and deploying machine learning models
- Track record of deploying user facing ML features in production
- Strong programming skills in Python with experience in machine learning libraries and frameworks
- Proficiency in data manipulation and analysis using SQL and data visualization tools
- Experience with cloud-based platforms and services for machine learning (eg AWS Sagemaker, Snowflake Snowpark)
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to effectively collaborate with cross-functional teams
- Ability to lead and mentor junior data scientists and engineers
- Advanced degree (Master’s or PhD) with a quantitative major such as Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, or Computer Science
What the job involves
- SoFi’s Data Science team is seeking an experienced Senior Staff Data Scientist to help lead our machine learning efforts
- This individual will be responsible for the end to end development and deployment of machine learning models that improve SoFi’s product experience for our members
- You will build systems to recommend products to our members, improve conversion with personalization, and build models to better understand our member’s behavior
- Work closely with Product and Engineering partners to define product experiences that can be improved with machine learning
- Architect and deploy machine learning pipelines and infrastructure in AWS Sagemaker and Snowflake Snowpark
- Conduct advanced statistical analyses and machine learning experiments to extract actionable insights from large, complex datasets
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including product management, engineering, and business stakeholders, to define and prioritize data science initiatives
- Develop and maintain best practices for machine learning model development, deployment, and monitoring
- Communicate complex technical concepts and results to non-technical stakeholders in a clear and concise manner
- Stay abreast of the latest developments in Data Science, Machine Learning, and AI, and apply this knowledge to improve our solutions
Our take
SoFi started by offering ways for students to secure better financial terms on their loans, and now offers a huge range of personal finance products, including bank accounts, loans, mortgages, investment advice, and investment opportunities. Many customers find they have to go to multiple financial service providers to meet all their finance needs, but SoFi overcomes this issue by putting it all in one place.
Its goal, to cover all the financial bases, sets them apart from many of the traditional banks and even some of their digital competitors, such as Avant, which has chosen to focus on providing credit alternatives. Although it is operating in a competitive market with a lot of big players such as Monzo, Revolut, and Starling, the company has managed to raise huge amounts of funding to support its rapid expansion.
SoFi has focussed on global expansion, moving outside the US, and has made a series of acquisitions to support this - including a Hong Kong-based investment app called 8 Securities. After going public on the New York Stock Exchange via a SPAC merger in June 2021, the company has continued to evolve and release more mission-oriented services into its roster, and strengthened its lending capabilities through a $350 million post-IPO loan. To date, the company has sold over $15 billion in personal loan collateral and continues to strengthen its offering.
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Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jan 2021
$369.9m
LATE VC
May 2019
$500m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $2.7bn
Company benefits
- Comprehensive health, vision, dental, life insurance, and disability benefits
- Generous vacation and holidays
- Paid parental leave for eligible employees
- 401(k) and education on retirement planning
- Tuition reimbursement on approved programs, up to $5,250 per year
- Monthly contribution up to $200 to help you pay off your student loans
- Great health & well-being benefits including: telehealth parental support, subsidized gym program
- Flexible time off
- Fertility and family planning options
- Free financial classes
Company values
- Put our member's interests first – if we take care of our members' interests, it will best serve our interests.
- Run after problems – we must build a culture of people who run after problems in order to ensure we execute with excellence and “things” do not fall through the cracks.
- Embrace diversity, everyone should feel welcome, included and able to contribute – diversity is a differentiator and our team should reflect society. We should continue to encourage and celebrate diversity.
- Get to the truth and make principle-based decisions – we can only make the best decisions if we have the right data, all of the perspectives, and if we align on the guiding principles.
- Make your footprint bigger than your foot – selfless acts are critical to elevate beyond the impact of our collective individual efforts.
- Do the right thing, if you're not sure, do the harder thing – our business is built on trust and integrity, which requires both adhering to the letter of the law and regulations and doing the right thing for the company and our members..
- Set ambitious goals, be gritty, be accountable - we must hold ourselves and others accountable for delivering our business objectives, for our culture, and for our member.
- Take care of other people and help them grow - our people are our greatest differentiator, if we take care of our people, they will take care of our members.
- Iterate, learn, innovate - we are all responsible for innovation and we must embrace data-driven decisions.
- Be SoFi missionaries - our products, our services, our brand, and our business must be durable over the long term to achieve our mission—be a missionary.
- Don’t forget to smile - our ambition is contagious: it makes us smile to see people inside and outside of SoFi succeed.
Company HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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Leadership
Anthony Noto
(CEO)Graduated from the U.S. Military Academy after being a telecommunications officer and captain in the U.S. Army. Has worked as Head of Gobal Telecommunications, Media and Technology at Goldman Sachs, been the COO of Twitter, and also the CFO of the National Football League.
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