Machine Learning Engineer

About the role

A leading Fintech, represented by eRecruiter, is looking for Machine Learning Engineers to join its team in Lagos. The successful candidate works closely with engineers, product managers and data scientists to develop, improve and deploy machine learning models and to solve other optimisation problems.

Key responsibilities

• Credit decisions: build signals from unstructured and structured data to identify good borrowers
• Customer service: use machine learning and NLP to automate customer service interactions and give context to the support team
• Fraud prevention: identify patterns of fraudulent behaviour and build models to detect and prevent them
• Teamwork: contribute to the technical direction of the team and work cross-functionally with policy and product teams to improve processes

Required profile

• 4+ years of experience building software in a production environment; startup or early-stage team experience preferred
• Diverse data skills, including experimentation, statistics and machine learning, applied to inform business decisions
• Understanding of cloud computing infrastructure and data pipelines
• Self-motivated, proactive problem solver and collaborative team player

Required skills

• Excellent software engineering and programming skills, especially Python and SQL
• Machine learning and data analysis