Jobs at Earnest
Earnest is a fintech pioneer that blends data science with customer‑centric lending, offering student‑loan refinancing, personal loans, and mortgages. The company has built a reputation for transparent pricing, algorithm‑based risk assessment, and a culture that rewards innovation.
The hiring mix spans software engineering, data science, product, design, risk management, compliance, marketing, and finance. Candidates can expect a collaborative, fast‑paced environment where code reviews, cross‑functional demos, and regular pair‑programming sessions shape product roadmaps.
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Data Scientist
Company: Earnest
Location: USA
Posted Sep 04, 2023
Earnest is a company dedicated to making higher education accessible and affordable. They offer private student loans, student loan refinancing, and scholarships. The company culture values drivers, humility, and a growth mindset. Earnest is seeking a Data Scientist II to work on projects involving credit risk modeling, causal inferencing, and NLP tasks. The ideal candidate should have 2+ years of experience in R/Python, SQL, and model development. Earnest offers competitive benefits including health benefits, work-from-home flexibility, and a tuition reimbursement program.
Lead Data Engineer
Company: Earnest
Location: USA
Posted Aug 04, 2023
Requirements: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a closely related field, plus 5 years of software development experience. These 5 years of experience must include experience with each of the following: (1) 3 years of SQL and data transformation experience; (2) 3 years of programming language experience, including python; (3) 2 years of Snowflake experience; (4) 2 years of cloud services experience, including AWS; and (5) 1 year of experience using data tools, including Airflow or DBT. Build ML platform to support faster model development, training, experimentation, and production deployment by using technologies like Sagemaker, Kubeflow, AWS, Ansible, Terraform. Deploy Kubeflow, Sagemaker pipelines for automated model training, experimentation and serving. Use ansible, terraform, Jenkins and other CI/CD tools to automate tasks and cloud service deployments. Manage Snowflake data warehouse that includes access management, usage monitoring, cost optimizations and data integrations. Interested candidates must apply online at www.earnest.com/careers [earnest.com]. Set up technical direction by designing system architecture, proposing technologies, planning and leading projects in roadmap to solve technical and business problems. This notice is subject to Earnest LLC's employee referral program. Build data models using DBT and SQL for data transformations to satisfy business requirements.