Software Engineer (Credit / ML)

⚡ About us

At 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 Role

You 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 the 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 life-time opportunities to scale innovations such as Slope Transformer

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 a web frameworks (i.e. Django, Nextjs)

Experience at a high-growth, fast-paced startup