Principal Machine Learning Engineer

About the Role

As a Principal Machine Learning Engineer, you will innovate and improve the machine learning infrastructure we rely on to make billions of dollars of efficient and accurate decisions and enable financial progress for our customers. The goal of the Machine Learning Engineering team is to provide Mission Lane with tools and platforms to execute world class machine learning.

As a Principle Machine Learning Engineer, you’ll:

• Design, develop, and deploy machine learning systems to solve practical problems and support our data scientists’ and analysts' ability to create models and perform analysis.
• Operate, maintain and improve our ML platforms and infrastructure (Chalk, BentoML, Airflow).
• Partner with business leaders and technical experts across the company to improve our feature extraction, model development process, data pipelines, and model serving.
• Identify gaps and opportunities in our ML ecosystem, and build support for new projects.

You have:

• 5 years + relevant experience in a production environment
• A good foundation in computer science (data structures, algorithms, design patterns) and apply solid fundamentals in your software engineering (test-driven development, code review, refactoring)
• Experience building and operating the infrastructure behind ML systems, including designing alerting and monitoring strategies.
• Experience designing and building CICD pipelines.
• Expertise with Python and cloud technology stacks like GCP or AWS
• Exposure to a wide range of ML solutions including established tools (e.g. Spark, Kubernetes, Airflow, MLFlow), emerging tools (like Chalk, BentoML, or DVC), and developing in-house tools.
• A history of partnering with business stakeholders to create, refine, and execute new ideas and helped improve data science workflows.

You get bonus points for:

• Experience solving problems in consumer lending or fintech
• A history of managing Kubernetes infrastructure using argoCD, and CRDs.

We’re offering:

We’re committed to ensuring our team members have balance in their lives. Our comprehensive benefits package provides the support you need to thrive at work and at home.

• Work: An engaging culture with access to training programs and advancement opportunities
• Life: Full health, dental, and vision benefits, Flexible Spending Account (for medical and childcare expenses), paid parental leave, and a 401k Company Match
• Balance: Generous PTO, flexible schedules, a Calm App subscription, and more

Compensation

Annual full-time base salary range: $174,000 - $242,000

Additional compensation in the form(s) of participation in our annual incentive program and equity are dependent on role. Pay is based on factors such as work experience, education, certification(s), training, skills, and competencies related to the role. Mission Lane also offers a comprehensive benefits plan, which includes unlimited paid time off, 401(k) match, a monthly wellness stipend, health/ dental/ vision insurance options, disability coverage, paid parental leave, flexible spending account (for childcare and healthcare), life insurance, and a remote-friendly work environment.

About Mission Lane:

Founded in December 2018, Mission Lane is a purpose-driven fintech company based in the U.S., with headquarters in Richmond, Virginia. 

It all started with a realization:  nearly fifty percent of the adult population in the U.S. doesn’t have access to a clear line of credit. Most traditional credit card companies either overlook or overcharge this group because they have less-than-perfect credit scores or no scores at all. We decided this just wouldn’t do.

In partnership with our sponsor banks, we offer credit cards under the Mission Lane brand name, with better, clearer terms, and a more refined customer experience than the alternatives available to people working hard to improve their credit.

To date, over three million consumers have chosen Mission Lane, earning high customer ratings on Credit Karma for its market segment and industry leading Net Promoter scores. 

Mission Lane has cumulatively raised over $600 million of equity from leading investors, including Invus Opportunities, QED Investors, LL Funds, funds affiliated with Oaktree Capital Management, and other leading investors.

Interested in learning more? Check out The Mission Lane Junction for articles on culture, credit, and community, and The Mission Lane Newsroom for media mentions.

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Mission Lane is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, race, color, age, national origin, religion, physical and mental disability, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity/assignment, citizenship, pregnancy or maternity, protected veteran status, or any other status prohibited by applicable national, federal, state or local law.

Mission Lane provides reasonable accommodations to applicants who need them for medical or religious reasons, as required by law.  Applicants can initiate an accommodation request by contacting [email protected].

Mission Lane is not sponsoring new applicant employment authorization and please, no third-party recruiters.

Each Laner is responsible for keeping Mission Lane informed of their primary work location within the United States. Changes to a Laner's work location may result in changes to certain benefits based on local policies and requirements. If a Laner desires to move to an approved state within the US, we ask that they notify People Operations at least 30 days prior to moving, so we can ensure appropriate setup takes place.