Divine
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13 days ago
## The Problem Traditional credit was built for people who already have money. Requirements for credit history, collateral, and costly underwriting create insurmountable barriers for those who need capital most. Over 1.4 billion people lack access to credit. A vendor in Lagos earns cash daily but can't prove a steady income. A Colombian nurse with years of perfect informal repayments remains invisible to banks. We built an alternative called **Credit**. Since December 2024, it has issued over one million undercollateralized loans using stablecoins. People from around the world have used these loans to pay for things like groceries, medicine, and transportation. Backed by $6.6 million from Paradigm and Nascent, we're scaling a system that has already reached more than 900,000 unique borrowers. Help us take it to the next level. ## About The Role We're looking for a talented **Data Scientist** to drive credit risk intelligence across Credit, our leading undercollateralized lending system. You'll own portfolio monitoring and reporting, research emerging risk trends, and transform borrower behavioral data into actionable guidance that shapes our credit strategy and roadmap. While our engineering & research teams own the underlying models, you'll be the person who makes sense of what they're telling us, tracking portfolio health, identifying issues early, and turning insights into clear recommendations for risk strategy and underwriting policy. Over time, this role may expand to drive broader product analytics across our suite of products. This role is based in **San Francisco, California**. We work in a hybrid model, with the team in office 3 days per week. ## Stack - Python - SQL - Grafana/Prometheus/Metabase - Blockchain data and indexing tools (Dune, Shovel) ## Key Responsibilities - Monitor credit risk models, including underwriting, loss forecasting, and fraud detection, and iterate based on observed portfolio performance - Design, build, and maintain scalable data pipelines, monitoring infrastructure, and dashboards to track portfolio health, user behavior, and key risk indicators - Partner with product, research, and engineering teams to define north star metrics and translate them into measurable, actionable credit and growth strategies - Design and analyze A/B tests, quasi-experiments, and causal inference studies to evaluate the impact of product and policy changes - Produce portfolio monitoring and investigative analyses, making recommendations based on findings - Translate complex quantitative findings into clear, compelling narratives for product, leadership, and cross-functional stakeholders ## Requirements - 4+ years of experience in decision science, credit risk analytics, or a closely related quantitative role within fintech or consumer lending - Deep proficiency in Python and SQL; comfortable owning analyses end-to-end from raw data to recommendation - Strong understanding of credit risk modeling concepts, including PD/LGD modeling, scorecard development, reject inference, vintage analysis, and risk segmentation - Demonstrated experience monitoring credit risk metrics and portfolio performance, including loss forecasting and underwriting model improvement - Proven ability to influence and collaborate with cross-functional teams and senior stakeholders, with a track record of translating analytical findings into accessible, actionable insights - Experience designing and evaluating experiments (A/B tests, holdout groups, or causal inference frameworks) in a consumer product context - Comfortable with ambiguity and biased toward action; thrives with minimal oversight and brings strong problem-solving skills and sharp attention to detail ## Nice to have - Experience building or maintaining large-scale data pipelines supporting B2C financial products - Familiarity with credit bureau data, cash flow underwriting, or alternative data sources in credit model development - Experience working in emerging markets, ideally on financial products serving everyday consumer needs (microfinance, BNPL, digital lending) - Strong understanding of DeFi protocol mechanics (lending, yield vaults, ERC4626) and experience with onchain data tooling (Dune, Shovel, Ponder, Goldsky or similar) - Exposure to regulatory frameworks relevant to consumer credit (FCRA, ECOA, or equivalent) *Divine Research is an equal opportunity employer.* When applying, mention the word **CANDYSHOP** to show you read the job post completely.
47 days ago
<p>Traditional credit was built for people who already have money. Requirements for credit history, collateral, and costly underwriting create insurmountable barriers for those who need capital most. Over 1.4 billion people lack access to credit. A vendor in Lagos earns cash daily but can't prove a steady income. A Colombian nurse with years of perfect informal repayments remains invisible to banks.<br><br>We built an alternative called Credit. Since December 2024, it has issued hundreds of thousands of undercollateralized loans using stablecoins. People from around the world have used these loans to pay for things like groceries, medicine, and transportation. Backed by $6.6 million from Paradigm and Nascent, we're scaling a system that has already reached half a million unique borrowers. Help us take it to the next level.<br><br><strong>About The Role<br><br></strong>We seek a talented individual to build and improve the adaptive decision systems behind Credit, our leading undercollateralized lending system. You'll design models that learn borrower behavior over time and make optimal lending decisions under uncertainty, balancing exploration with exploitation across hundreds of thousands of users worldwide. You'll also develop the offline evaluation and monitoring infrastructure to safely validate these systems before deployment.<br><br><strong>Stack<br><br></strong></p><ul> <li>Python</li> <li>TypeScript</li> <li>Bayesian/probabilistic modeling (PyMC, Stan, NumPyro, or similar)</li> <li>Bandit and RL frameworks</li> <li>SQL</li> <li>Grafana/Prometheus<br><br> </li> </ul><strong>Key Responsibilities<br><br></strong><ul> <li>Design, maintain, and optimize adaptive credit policies using methods like Thompson Sampling, contextual bandits, and Bayesian models</li> <li>Formulate lending decisions as sequential decision problems under uncertainty (e.g., progressive trust-building, dynamic credit limits, risk-aware exploration)</li> <li>Build offline evaluation frameworks to safely test new policies before going live</li> <li>Model borrower behavior with limited, non-stationary data across diverse emerging-market populations</li> <li>Develop tools, alerts, and analytics to monitor policy performance and detect distribution shifts</li> <li>Collaborate with engineering to implement decision systems in production<br><br> </li> </ul><strong>Requirements<br><br></strong><ul> <li>Graduate degree in a quantitative field such as mathematics, physics, or computer science. </li> <li>Very strong foundations in probabilistic modeling and Bayesian inference</li> <li>Experience applying bandit algorithms to real-world decision problems in production (credit, pricing, recommendations, resource allocation, or similar)</li> <li>Ability to make and defend pragmatic tradeoffs (e.g., heuristic > learned policy, simple bandit > deep RL) based on empirical evidence and to communicate them well verbally and in internal research write-ups. </li> <li>Experience in Python, Typescript, SQL, and programming for data analysis</li> <li>Exceptional problem-solving skills and attention to detail<br><br> </li> </ul><strong>Nice to have<br><br></strong><ul> <li>Experience in traditional credit, lending, fintech, or insurance, especially in emerging markets or data-scarce environments</li> <li>Published work or open-source contributions in bandits, Bayesian ML, or sequential decision-making</li> <li>Experience with DeFi protocols, especially lending or credit systems</li> <li>Familiarity with blockchain data indexing and onchain analytics<br><br> </li> </ul><em>Divine Research is an equal opportunity employer.<br><br></em> When applying, mention the word CANDYSHOP to show you read the job post completely.