Data Scientist Lead, Payments

Data Scientist Lead, Payments

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What You'll Do:
  • Build, optimize, and scale money-moving systems across all of our products and users
  • Drive strategic deals and integrations with partners across the payments ecosystem, including banks, credit card networks, and processors
  • Reconcile payments data between systems, banks, and processors
  • Develop a data-driven roadmap for new financial products
  • Collaborate with cross-functional teams including engineering, data science, finance, and operations
  • Help us rethink how businesses and people pay for and use their employee benefits
  • Identify and scope product challenges that are ripe for data science solutions—like risk modeling, data-informed insurance plan design, dentist search optimizations
  • Work cross-functionally to inform data collection, productionize data science work, and integrate machine learning into the product
Who You Are:
  • 4+ years of payments, finance, or consulting experience
  • 5+ years of industry experience in relevant roles such as data scientist, data analyst, or data engineer
  • Expertise with payments infrastructure (ACH) and reconciliation (AR/AP)
  • Experience working with and building API integrations with large partners
  • Strategic thinking, problem solving, and analytical skills
  • Clear and effective communication style
  • An ownership mentality, eager to grow in an early-stage company
  • Prior experience in risk modeling, forecasting, or working with time series data
  • Prior experience working with dirty or high-dimensional, categorical data
  • Experience with SQL, proficiency in one scripting language like R or Python working in a collaborative development environment, and willingness to pick up new programming languages.
  • Experience working with highly confidential information.
  • Bonus: Prior experience working with healthcare and insurance data, and experience leading a team of Data Scientists and Data Analysts.
Our technologies:
 
These are some of the technologies we use today. You don’t need to be familiar with all of these; many people on our team learned them with us. During our interview process, you’re welcome to use any language you’re most comfortable with.
  • Languages and libraries - Python, Go, Protobuf, gRPC
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS) - Relational Database Service (RDS), S3, Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), Sagemaker
  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP) - BigQuery
  • GitLab
  • ElasticSearch
  • Looker

What We Offer:

  • Have the chance to work at a leading innovator and trailblazer in the world of insurance and payments.
  • Competitive salary and equity
  • 100% paid medical for you and 80% for your dependents, 100% covered dental and vision through Level for you and your dependents
  • Flexible vacation policy - take the time you need when you need it!
  • Fully Paid Parental leave for 3 months
  • Quarterly Company sponsored events
  • Internal learning and development programs
This job is no longer open
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