Senior Software Engineer
Backend
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Nova Credit

51-200 employees

People move. Credit history doesn't. We're changing that.
Company Overview
Nova strives to enable the flow of humans not just for their economic potential, but because of the value of that movement itself in bringing new perspectives, creativity, community, and innovation. Nova Credit allows consumers who have recently arrived in the U.S. to attempt to demonstrate their creditworthiness to lenders.
Financial Services
Data & Analytics

Company Stage

Series C

Total Funding

$124.4M

Founded

2016

Headquarters

New York, New York

Growth & Insights
Headcount

6 month growth

0%

1 year growth

2%

2 year growth

45%
Locations
New York, NY, USA
Experience Level
Entry
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Desired Skills
Data Science
CategoriesNew
Data & Analytics
Software Engineering
Requirements
  • At Nova Credit, our mission is to power a more fair and inclusive financial system for the world
  • If you have no credit, it can take years to build that up, even if your financial situation shows that you have the ability to take on risks
  • In the US, that accounts for almost 20% of the adult population, including 11%, which are completely “credit invisible.”
  • This directly affects this population's ability to qualify for student loans, apartment leases, car financing, and anything else requiring a credit score
Responsibilities
  • Collaborate with product teams and data science to implement new features into our Cashflow underwriting and Income Verification solutions
  • Collaborate with the data science team to productionalize research models; this may include supplementing research-driven models with additional considerations such as unit processing efficiency, batch efficiency, and parallel computing use cases
  • Develop tooling and data systems to improve research velocity and outcomes
  • Instrument our production systems solutions to increase observability
  • Automate model quality controls and processes to drive down development cycle times and drive up model performance
  • Maintain and improve several production ML models such as algorithmic calculations, regression models, and classifiers