RedCarpetUp (YC S15) Is Hiring a Chief Data Scientist (New Delhi or Remote)
RedCarpetUp is on a mission to build the next generation of credit and lending for the unbanked in India.
India is a trillion dollar economy - probably, the second fastest growing economy in the world. We have the fastest growing smartphone userbase.. yet 95% of retail (including e-commerce!) is cash based . The single biggest reason is lack of credit infrastructure - systems like social security number, credit bureaus, etc either do not exist... or are just beginning to take shape.
The need for credit is massive - however the mechanism to originate and manage risk is missing. And that's what RedCarpetUp seeks to solve.
RedCarpet requests access to much more data (just like Siri or Google Now), including data on your mobile phone. We use this data to score and service customers who never had any access to credit before.
We are looking for our chief data scientist who can set the culture and goalposts around our data science. We are looking for someone who has experience around financial data science (hedge fund, banks, trading systems... Palantir?) and has appetite for graph based analytics.
We are looking for you to build the data science from a validation point-of-view. We will invest a lot of effort into building domain specific backtester... we just dont want to throw algorithms at the wall. We want to have a thoughtful and reasoned out approach towards this.
We do not expect you to be a production quality coder - we already have a team of data engineers who will translate your concepts into production code. But you will need to be able to express your thoughts as R or Python Notebooks.
write to me directly at http://scr.im/redcarpetup or apply at https://angel.co/redcarpetup-com-1/jobs/179515-chief-data-scientist-for-a-fintech-startup-with-a-lending-or-epidemiology-background-ycombinator-2015