Description

In this role you will:

Work with Modeling, Product and Business to define requirements, design and build the next generation of ZestFinance product roadmap features.

• Identify and evangelize programming best practices with the Data Engineering and Modeling teams.
• Work closely with Analysis to ensure quality & availability of data in the Data Warehouse along with support of our Business Intelligence platform.
• Lead and participate in design / architecture reviews, as well as code reviews and walkthroughs.
• Design/Implement robust end-2-end ETL pipelines.
• Develop solutions with a mind towards quality, scalability and high performance on large data sets.

We are looking for:

• 8+ years experience in a senior developer or data engineer role
• Hands-on coding experience in R, Python, Scala or similar
• Solid foundation with Data Science workflow, experience with Pandas and Scikit-Learn preferred
• Experience with distributed processing frameworks like Amazon EMR and Spark
• Experience working with high volume heterogeneous data
• Amazon Web Services, e.g. RedShift, EMR, VPC, RDS, S3, and Route53
• Docker for provisioning servers and deploying applications/services
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical issues to a non-technical audience
• B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience

Perks and benefits:

• People – the best part of Zest
• Robust healthcare plans, matching 401K and unlimited vacation time
• Dog friendly office with lounge areas, video games and gigantic jigsaw puzzles
• On-site gym with yoga, salsa and other employee run fitness classes
• Generous family leave policy (6 month maternity leave/3 month paternity leave)
• Tuition reimbursement, conference allowance and Zest talks
• Complimentary massages, manicures, pedicures and more
• Daily catered lunches from LA’s best restaurants and fully stocked kitchen

About ZestFinance:

ZestFinance, Inc. applies its unique credit-decisioning technology platform — based on data science and machine learning — to help lenders effectively predict credit risk so they can increase revenues, reduce risk and ensure compliance. ZestFinance was founded in 2009 by Douglas Merrill and a team of former Google employees with the mission of making fair and transparent credit available to everyone.

We are committed to diversity in hiring, professional development, and everyday discussion.  Zest is determined to hire crazy smart people who are different from each other to create broad thinking, lots of different ideas, and by extension, the best team possible.