Python Developer at StartCredits

StartCredits is a dynamic, high-growth financial technology organization. Our commitment to quality continues to propel our growth and success.

We are recruiting to fill the vacant position below:

Job Position: Python Developer
Job Location: Lagos

Details

• This is a unique opportunity to join a new, multidisciplinary team of creative and passionate individuals destined to change the face of lending in Nigeria.
• We are focused on the company’s agenda, and work on high-impact projects utilizing big data analytics and machine learning to improve credit decisions in Nigeria.

What you’ll be doing

• Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code to implement our credit risk models.
• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performance applications.
• Integration of user-facing elements developed by front-end developers with server side logic.
• Implementation of security and data protection on our credit risk models that help our customers reduce their loan impairments.
• You will work with cross-functional team members to identify and prioritize actionable, high-impact insights across a variety of core business areas.
• You will research, design, implement and validate cutting-edge algorithms to analyze diverse sources of data to achieve targeted outcomes.

Who we’re looking for

• Expert in Python, with knowledge of at least one Python web framework {{such as Django, Flask, etc depending on your technology stack}}
• Familiarity with some ORM (Object Relational Mapper) libraries.
• You have a deep understanding of statistical and predictive modeling concepts, clustering and classification techniques, and recommendation and optimization algorithms.
• Able to integrate multiple data sources and databases into one system
• Understanding of the threading limitations of Python, and multi-process architecture
• Good understanding of server-side templating languages {{such as Jinja 2, Mako, etc depending on your technology stack}}
• Basic understanding of front-end technologies, such as JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3
• You are able to analyze large, complex, multi-dimensional datasets with a variety of tools.
• Great communication skills (written and verbal), an analytical results orientated mentality and the ability to work with others as part of a team are expected.