Data Scientist

At Parafin, we’re on a mission to grow small businesses.

Small businesses are the backbone of our economy, but traditional banks often don’t have their backs. We build tech that makes it simple for small businesses to access the financial tools they need through the platforms they already sell on.

We partner with companies like DoorDash, Amazon, Worldpay, and Mindbody to offer fast and flexible funding, spend management, and savings tools to their small business users via a simple integration. Parafin takes on all the complexity of capital markets, underwriting, servicing, compliance, and customer service for our partners.

We’re a tight-knit team of innovators hailing from Stripe, Square, Plaid, Coinbase, Robinhood, CERN, and more — all united by a passion for building tools that help small businesses succeed. Parafin is backed by prominent venture capitalists including GIC, Notable Capital, Redpoint Ventures, Ribbit Capital, and Thrive Capital. Parafin is a Series C company, and we have raised more than $194M in equity and $340M in debt facilities.

Join us in creating a future where every small business has the financial tools they need.

Data is core to Parafin's mission to grow small businesses. Our platform partnerships and portfolio provide rich insight into SMB financial health, allowing us to create fair, automated, and broad access to financial services. As Parafin scales, the breadth and depth of our data grows with it, amplifying the impact we can have on customers and the trajectory of the business.

Enthusiasm, skepticism, and respect for data are in our DNA – two of our co-founders were PhD data scientists at Robinhood. Since our founding, we have grown the team to include perspectives from graduate studies in physics, mathematics, bioengineering, economics, financial engineering, and electrical engineering and professional experience at Robinhood, Uber, Lyft, Airbnb, Faire, Segment, Facebook, and Google. We value first-principles thinking, attention to detail, and craftsmanship.

Our mission is to help Parafin succeed by leveraging the vast data that powers our platform. Our team partners closely with leaders across the company to drive impact. This role's scope includes:

• Approach data analysis with a critical, intellectually honest eye

• Design concise metrics that guide decision making

• Use robust causal inference methods

• Develop valid and predictive machine learning models

• Identify and effectively prioritize business problems

• Solve business problems using appropriate data science techniques

• Anticipate the impact of your work on our financial performance, customers, and compliance obligations

• Write legible, reliable, and tested code

• Build or source tools to boost the team's efficiency

• Contribute to model and data infrastructure design

• Model Parafin's values of efficiency, intellectual honesty, accountability, and empathy

• Build trusted relationships with stakeholders

• Document work, seek feedback, and share learnings proactively

• Mentor other DS members on the team

• Management experience, a plus!

• Prioritize high-impact use of your time

• Scope projects rigorously

• Act with urgency

• Rapidly learn and adopt emerging AI tools and workflows to accelerate analysis

• Critically evaluate AI-generated outputs for accuracy and reliability