Lead SWE, Information Systems

ZestFinance

(Los Angeles, California)
Full Time
Job Posting Details
About ZestFinance
ZestFinance is a technology startup that uses machine learning and large-scale data analysis to transform credit availability for millions of Americans. Over the past 5 years, ZestFinance has built a big data underwriting technology that more accurately predicts likelihood of repayment. ZestFinance uses this technology to make loans to customer that banks typically overlook. ZestFinance also licenses its technology to other companies, including JD.com in China.
Summary
You will work closely with various teams at ZestFinance including HR, Accounting, and People Operations to understand each team’s current and future needs. You will be responsible for designing and architecting systems level integrations between each of our information systems. At ZestFinance, we work with a great deal of enthusiasm and energy along with a social conscience and passion for leveraging data and technology to transform financial services as we know it.
Responsibilities
* Build and lead IS team. * Mentor software engineers. * Systems architecture design. * Work closely with all stakeholders to determine requirements and streamline operations. * Develop a keen understanding of our current infrastructure, articulate a vision for where we should be, and draft detailed plans to get us there. * Participate in on-call support. * Maintain documentation of systems and procedures. * Hands-on experience managing data flows between internal systems. * Participate in daily standups.
Ideal Candidate
* 5+ years experience managing distributed systems. * Vendor evaluation and management. * Fluency in Ruby, Python, or similar. * Experience with analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems (network analysis, performance and application issues). * Experience with monitoring/alerting tools (e.g. New Relic, Airbrake, PagerDuty). * Excellent verbal and written communication skills including the ability to explain technical issues to a non-technical * audience. * Strong work ethic and a can-do attitude. * B.S. in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

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