SentiLink

SentiLink

Senior Data Scientist, Full Stack

United States · Senior

No sponsorshipDetected 197 days ago
PythonFull-Stack DevelopmentPostgreSQLRedshiftAWSMachine LearningData ScienceA/B TestingResearchLeadershipCollaborationCritical Thinking

About the role

  • SentiLink https://www.sentilink.com/ provides innovative identity and risk solutions, empowering institutions and individuals to transact with confidence.
  • We've seen tremendous traction and are growing extremely quickly.
  • SentiLink is backed by world-class investors including Craft Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, NYCA, and Max Levchin.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain
  • Develop and maintain SentiLink's fraud detection models through the full model development lifespan: from data acquisition decisions through featurization, focusing labeling resources, model training, experimentation, productionalization, and monitoring.
  • Build foundational modeling to drive SentiLink's expanding suite of Fraud and Financial Risk products.
  • Research new types of fraud and develop new SentiLink products around identity verification.
  • Achieve success by researching / developing through iteration, integration of new data sources and inventive feature engineering.
  • Write production-ready code that can be relied on for real-time decision making by our partners.
  • Design, perform, and present analyses that will inform data acquisition, product development, risk operations priorities, marketing, and sales efforts.
  • Work with engineering, risk operations, and data acquisitions to access necessary data, maintain data quality, and support data access
  • We're building the future of identity verification in the United States replacing a clunky, ineffective, and expensive status quo with solutions that are 10x faster, smarter, and more accurate.
  • We maintain physical offices in Austin, San Francisco, New York City, Seattle, Los Angeles, and Chicago in the U.S., and in Gurugram (Delhi) and Bengaluru in India.

Requirements

  • 4+ years relevant work experience & relevant PhD or 6+ years & relevant Masters
  • Proven track record of solving complex / high profile business problems with DS / ML solutions
  • Experience in communicating outcomes / progress to senior management / stakeholders
  • Interest in developing deep domain expertise for product-focused work: a background in fraud is not required, but willingness to learn is
  • Experience writing production code and tests

Nice to have

  • Experience working at a startup strongly preferred
  • Thrive in a fast paced environment characterized by the need to solve extremely varied, high impact, open ended problems.
  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States
  • 401(k) plan with employer match (or equivalent for non US-based roles)
  • Regular company-wide in-person events
  • Deep Understanding
  • Whatever It Takes
  • Do Something Smart

Skills

  • Python 3, PostgreSQL, and AWS infrastructure (EC2, S3, RDS, Redshift, etc.)

Compensation

  • $200,000/year - $240,000/year + equity + benefits

Benefits

  • Employer paid group health insurance for you and your dependents
  • Flexible paid time off
  • Home office stipend, and more!
  • $200,000/year - $240,000/year + equity + benefits

Company info

  • Our real-time APIs have helped verify hundreds of millions of identities, starting with financial services and rapidly expanding into new markets.
  • We have also been named a 2026 FICO Industry Vanguard Decision Award Winner https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20260330439998/en/SentiLink-Named-a-2026-FICO-Industry-Vanguard-Decision-Award-Winner-for-Leadership-in-Identity-Theft-Detection.

Visa & Work Authorization

  • Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and must live in the United States

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