Software Engineer (Credit/ML)

Company: Slope
Location: San Francisco
Posted on: May 3, 2025

Job Description:

About usAt Slope, we empower growing businesses by providing seamless access to capital. We are building a unified platform that serves two main purposes:1. Direct Business Financing ("Financing by Slope"): We offer businesses the capital they need with instant underwriting and a consumer-grade user experience, making it easier and faster for them to manage their financing needs and focus on growth.2. Technology Platform for Credit Teams ("Powered by Slope"): Our cutting-edge technology supports credit teams at enterprises and financial institutions, enhancing their ability to manage and extend credit efficiently.The RoleYou will play a foundational role in building the models and infrastructure powering Slope's underwriting stack. If the thought of building things from scratch and owning features end-to-end excites you, you'd be a perfect fit!

• Building the core risk models powering underwriting. The outputs of these models will determine who we lend to, how much we lend, and what terms we offer - our core business activity.
• You will own everything from building pipelines & writing training loops to deploying the model to real-time production code.
• Scale and optimize our underwriting service while keeping it low latency.
• Seeking out new data sources, such as credit bureaus, fraud-detection services, and alternative sources (social media, satellite & street views). Integrating promising APIs into our production & training pipelines.
• Building the infrastructure that powers data ingestion, model training, and deployment.
• Support the improvement of internal tooling used in financial-based and manual underwriting.Why work with us?
  • You'll get the chance to be an early team member at a fast-growth YC startup. We truly believe it's all about slope - not where you start but how fast we are growing and iterating.
  • We are growing insanely fast and are well-funded. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to join our rocketship at an inflection point!
  • We're a tight-knit, intense team, where you'll learn a ton and have ownership.
  • We have raised capital from some of the best VCs (Y Combinator, Union Square Ventures) and angels (Sam Altman and founders of Doordash, Dropbox, Plaid, Opendoor, Unity) in the world.
  • Work with seasoned second-time founders.
  • Once in a lifetime opportunities to scale innovations such as .
  • Help transition the massive B2B economy online and help small business owners thrive.Requirements
    • 3+ years in Data Engineering, or ML Engineering in a production setting.
    • Worked closely with data scientists to ship features and models into production.
    • Experience building, maintaining, and debugging distributed ML infrastructure.
    • Fluency in Python and Javascript.
    • Experience with the DS stack (Pandas, Scikit, Numpy).
    • Experience with SQL, data warehousing and ETL.
    • Experience with building internal tooling to empower coworkers and improve operational efficiency.
    • Willing to work in person at SF office.
    • Being proactive and a fast-learner (Slope!).Bonus points
      • Entrepreneurial mindset (we encourage all employees to be future founders and this can be a great stepping stone towards that).
      • Customer-centric and passionate about helping small businesses grow.
      • Experience with web frameworks (i.e. Django, Nextjs).
      • Experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup.
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