Machine Learning Engineer at Branch International

Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company based in San Francisco and Nairobi. We use technology to dramatically reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. Our first product is credit. Branch is like a bank in your pocket, there for you at all times.

• As a company, we are passionate about our customers, fearless in the face of barriers, and driven by data.
• As an engineering team, we value bottom-up innovation and decentralized decision-making.
• We believe the best ideas can come from anyone in the company, and we are working hard to create an environment where everyone feels empowered to propose solutions to the challenges we face.
• We are looking for individuals who thrive in a fast-moving, innovative, and customer-focused setting.

How you will make an impact

• Credit Decisions: Core to our business is understanding and building signals from unstructured and structured data to identify good borrowers.
• Customer Service: Using machine learning and NLP, automate customer service interactions and provide context to our customer service team.
• Fraud Prevention: Identify patterns of fraudulent behavior and build models to detect and prevent these behaviors.
• Teamwork: Bring your experience to bear on the technical direction and abilities of the team, and work cross-functionally with policy and product teams as we improve processes and break new ground.

Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience building software in a production environment. Startup or early-stage team experience is preferred.
• Excellent software engineering and programming skills, especially Python and SQL.
• A diverse range of data skills, including experimentation, statistics, and machine learning, has used these skills to inform business decisions.
• An understanding of cloud computing infrastructure and data pipelines.
• Self-motivation: You teach yourself new skills. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise. You roll up your sleeves and get stuff done.
• Team motivation: You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions. You are a great collaborator and teacher.
• The drive to make a positive impact on customers' lives.

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