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  • Posted: Nov 22, 2023
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    Branch is a for-profit socially conscious company based in San Francisco and Nairobi. We use technology to dramatically reduce the cost of delivering financial services in emerging markets. Our first product is credit. Branch is like a bank in your pocket, there for you at all times.


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    Backend Software Engineer

    Here are some things you'll do

    • Build out backend functionality for existing and new product lines such as Credit, Wallet, Bill Pay, and others.
    • Integrate with various third-party systems, including payment systems, identity providers, and messaging platforms.
    • Scale our backend services and pipelines to ever-growing levels of traffic and complexity.
    • Help build flexible and easy-to-use tools used by our operations teams to handle customer inquiries and other business processes.

    Minimum Requirements

    • You have strong experience (2+ years) of building backend software for web-based or mobile products.
    • You are an excellent collaborator and communicator.
    • You listen to others and seek to understand, but aren’t afraid to speak your mind and debate in a respectful manner when you disagree. 
    • You are excited by the prospect of working in a distributed team and company, working with teammates from all over the world.

    Preferred Requirements

    • You have a solid foundation in computer science fundamentals, distributed systems, data storage, and agile development methodologies.
    • You are pragmatic and combine a strong understanding of technology and product needs to arrive at the best solution for a given problem.
    • You are highly entrepreneurial and thrive in taking ownership of your own impact. You proactively identify problems and propose solutions. 

    Benefits of Joining

    • Work in a mission-driven, global, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
    • Competitive salary and equity package
    • A collaborative and flat company culture
    • Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
    • Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard (Platinum plan)
    • Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising; 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, bereavement leave 
    • Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave
    • Pension Benefit 
    • Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
    • We believe learning should never stop and so we provide a $500 stipend annually towards learning and development irrespective of role, title or tenure
    • Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
    • Team meals and social events (Hybrid for now)
    • Flexible working hours
    • Opportunity to work and interact with a global team

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    Machine Learning Engineer

    Project Examples / Responsibilities

    • Credit Decisions - Core to our business is understanding and building signals from unstructured and structured data to identify good borrowers 
    • Customer Service - Using machine learning, automate customer service interactions and provide context to our customer service team 
    • Fraud Prevention - Identify patterns of fraudulent behavior and build models to detect and prevent these behaviors 
    • Product Growth - Understand user experiences, test ideas, and improve conversion rates through experimentation 
    • Paid Growth / Marketing - Use external and internal data sources to measure and optimize marketing spend

    Minimum Requirements

    • You excel at software engineering and programming in Python and SQL for production systems.
    • You have 5+ years of experience working on Machine Learning systems in a production setting.
    • You know that startups are a team sport.
    • You listen to others, speak your mind, and ask the right questions.
    • You are a great collaborator and teacher.

    Preferred Requirements

    • You have a diverse range of data skills including experimentation, statistics, and machine learning, and have used these skills to inform business decisions.
    • You have a keen eye for detail and a healthy skepticism for data before relying upon it.
    • You are highly entrepreneurial. You teach yourself new skills. You take the initiative to solve problems before they arise.
    • You are driven by making an impact on customers' lives.

    Benefits of Joining

    • Work in a mission-driven, global, fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment
    • Competitive salary and equity package
    • A collaborative and flat company culture
    • Remote first, with the option to work in-person occasionally
    • Fully paid life and health insurance benefit with Axa Mansard (Platinum plan)
    • Work-life balance is not a myth, we offer a generous paid leave policy comprising; 28 days annual leave, 30 days sick leave, bereavement leave 
    • Fully paid parental leave - 6 months maternity and 3 months paternity leave
    • Pension Benefit 
    • Monthly WFH stipend alongside a one time home office set-up budget
    • We believe learning should never stop and so we provide a $500 stipend annually towards learning and development irrespective of role, title or tenure
    • Discretionary trips to our offices across the globe, with global travel medical insurance 
    • Team meals and social events (Hybrid for now)
    • Flexible working hours
    • Opportunity to work and interact with a global team

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