Job Details

About Slope

At Slope, we empower growing businesses by providing seamless access to capital. We are building a unified platform that serves two main purposes:

• 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.
• 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're 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 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 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 toward that).
• Customer‑centric and passionate about helping small businesses grow.
• Experience with a web framework (i.e. Django, Nextjs).
• Experience at a high‑growth, fast‑paced startup.