Staff Machine Learning Engineer, SoFi
$153.6-264k
+ Bonus
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Mobile & online personal finance services
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Mobile & online personal finance services
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$153.6-264k
+ Bonus
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help people reach financial independence to realize their ambitions.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is both forward-thinking and hands-on, has a strong sense of ownership and drive for delivery, and is a good mentor and co-worker
- We pride ourselves on a philosophy of continuous learning, and you should likewise be committed to furthering growth and providing mentorship for your team members
- Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Math, Physics, Engineering, or related quantitative field
- 2+ years of experience in managing other team members in a formal or informal capacity
- 5+ years of experience doing quantitative analysis at a technology company, consulting, investment banking, or product management including experience with SQL or other programming languages
- 5+ years of experience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
- Experience initiating and drive projects to completion with minimal guidance
- Experience communicating and representing results of analysis to senior leadership
- Understanding of statistical analysis, experience with packages, such as Python, R
- Experience with cloud-based platforms, such as AWS, Snowflake
- Experience with building data visualizations with Tableau, Looker or other BI tools
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Manager, Data Science to join our Lending Business Insights and Data Science team
- This leader will partner closely with SoFi’s Product, Engineering, and Finance teams to optimize our application funnels through experimentation, understand product usage across member segments, and enable data driven strategic decision making
- Build and lead a great data science team to deliver the best consumer financial products on the market
- Apply your expertise in quantitative analysis, data science, and the presentation of data to see beyond the numbers and understand how our users interact with our products or SoFi Platforms
- Partner with Business, Product, Engineering, and Finance teams to solve problems and identify trends and opportunities
- Inform, influence, support, and execute our product decisions
- Build/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our products
- Manage the development of data marts, gather requirements, organize sources, and support product launches while keeping the team accountable and impactful
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 it 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.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
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 HQ
The East Cut, San Francisco, CA
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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