NinjaHoldings was founded in 2017 by a team seeking to revolutionize the way everyday Americans interact with financial services. Through our CreditNinja and NinjaCard brands, we empower people overlooked by traditional financial institutions to take control of their finances via a full suite of digital banking and lending products, providing incentives and rewards along the way as we guide them on a path to financial improvement. Through our NinjaEdge brand, we help companies better understand their customers by offering a package of bespoke underwriting, fraud detection, and analytics services. With offices in Chicago, Miami, and around the world through the power of remote work, we are a lean and innovative team always seeking like-minded talent to join us in our fight to disrupt consumer finance.

Key Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and thoroughly test changes to the customer acquisition and underwriting system to optimize origination volume and loan performance
• Write and maintain a suite of unit and regression test cases to ensure the accuracy of changes to the customer acquisition and underwriting system
• Monitor key funnel metrics, reports, and dashboards to evaluate the performance of our products and understand the root causes of changes
• Establish funnel performance metrics and develop automated reporting and alerting using SQL and Python
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to implement underwriting strategy changes, monitor releases, and perform impact analysis
• Support analytics teams with running “what if” scenarios in the customer acquisition and underwriting system to improve their ability to efficiently manage our portfolio
• Support underwriting by having an understanding of the rules for different customer segments and products
• Communicate concise and actionable business strategies to senior management

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in a quantitative or business discipline (e.g., math, statistics, finance, economics, engineering, or other quantitative fields)
• 2+ years of experience working with python and SQL in a professional setting
• Working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases, query authoring, as well as familiarity with a variety of databases
• Programming experience with Python
• Strong quantitative and problem-solving skills with key attention to detail
• Experience supporting and working with cross-functional teams in a dynamic environment
• Ability to work effectively while managing multiple projects with tight deadlines, understand the project requirements with minimal guidance, follow through to completion

Additional Pluses, but Not Requirements:

• Experience working with specialty finance or FinTech

Benefits:

• Competitive salary and benefits package
• Flexible, remote work
• Fun, fast-paced work environment
• Dynamic start-up culture
• Ability to make an immediate impact in a growth stage company
• Convenient downtown Chicago office located in the heart of the city
• Equal opportunity employer