Possible Finance is a mission-driven fintech that offers financial services to millions of consumers in the US who are underserved by the mainstream financial system. Through Possible Loan, the only small dollar loan in the market that helps build credit history, we’ve put over $500M into the hands of more than 600K customers using our machine learning-based credit decisioning engine that doesn’t rely on credit score. Using this same proprietary credit risk technology, we’re also launching the Possible Card, the only unsecured credit card with zero interest or late fees—ever—as the next chapter in our journey to provide affordable access to capital to underserved consumers.
As the Staff Data Architect at Possible, you will be responsible for designing, enhancing, building, and maintaining our data management systems. Critical responsibilities including; review and analyze existing data systems at Possible, including automated data pipelines and data lake in the cloud from a data security and integration perspective, leading the data governance efforts, build and enhance the data management system to support the next phase of growth at Possible. We are looking for a self-starter who can lead and is passionate about data to solve business problems.
This role requires a high level of collaboration and engineering caliber as you work cross-functionally to answer critical strategic questions and drive architecture decisions that will help Possible achieve the growth ahead. This role reports directly to the Head of Data Science and ML.
What we offer
Possible Finance is on a mission to help communities break the debt cycle and unlock economic mobility for generations to come. With the backing of our venture investors (Union Square Ventures, Canvas Ventures, Euclidean Capital, Unlock Venture Partners), a loyal following of hundreds of thousands of customers, and a fantastic team, we’re unwavering in our fight for financial fairness. As one of only a few fintech Public Benefit Corporations, we’ve baked our dual commitment to building a profitable and socially impactful company right into our charter; we only succeed when our customers do too. If you’d like to help us ship financial products that protect consumers from predatory lending practices and promote financial health, give us a shout.
Our fully distributed, multi-cultural team is located across the US, Canada, Asia, Latin America, and Africa with core work hours between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific Time.
Benefits for our US team
We offer excellent medical/dental/vision coverage with 85% employer-paid premiums for employees and 50% for covered dependents, and our plans include HSAs with an employer contribution. Possible also provides medical and childcare FSAs, paid parental leave, participation in our company 401(k) plan, life insurance, discretionary Personal Time Off, generous company holiday time off (including the last week of the year), and an annual allowance to improve your workspace. All team members also receive an equity grant upon hire with multiple opportunities to acquire additional equity.
Possible Finance is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.