Data Scientist
Austin, TX, United States
Hi, We’re AffiniPay!
AffiniPay is a leading fintech company, based out of Austin, Texas. As the market leader in professional services payments and project management software, AffiniPay’s tech products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. AffiniPay has been recognized as one of Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies in the U.S. for 11 years in a row, and as a result, our teams continue to grow as well!
AffiniPay is looking for a Data Scientist who can build tools that help people make smarter decisions and provide more value to our customers. As a Data Scientist you will work with a team of data engineers, analysts, and product managers to design, implement, and maintain machine learning models and predictive analytics. In this role you will also work closely with the AI team to determine how we can integrate AI tools and functionality into our product roadmap.
Why join AffiniPay’s Data team:
You want to build something of lasting value, work with a wide variety of data inputs (RDBMS, Kafka event streams, API’s, etc.), and be part of a team working to help people across AffiniPay make smarter decisions and understand how to serve our customers better.
Your Day-to-Day:
Convert business problems into technical data problems and solutions in collaboration with product/business stakeholders
Work with product engineering to ensure implement-ability of solutions; deliver prototypes and production code as needed
Identify gaps in data and work with data, product, & engineering to fill gaps in data tracking
Build and experiment with modeling and scoring algorithms.
Devise and implement methods for adaptive learning with controls on efficiency, methods for explaining model decisions where vital, model validation, A/B testing of models
Devise and implement methods for efficiently monitoring model efficiency and performance in production
Integrating models and solutions into production data flows
About You:
Strong background in computer science, electrical engineering, statistics, econometrics, operations research, or signal processing
Strong programming skills in a scripting languages such as Python and proficient in other languages important to the ETL data pipeline (e.g. SQL, PySpark, Hive etc)
Experience building solutions using a variety of modeling techniques (logistic regression, Naïve Bayes, SVM, decision trees, neural networks, etc)
Experience working with AWS technologies in a cloud environment
Experience building and deploying models into a broader ecosystem of technologies and services
Located in Austin, Texas
Preferred Experience:
Experience programming in Java
Knowledge of building end to end ML systems and deploying them to operate at scale
Experience integrating models into streaming data flows
Experience with Natural Language Processing
Familiarity with one or more deep learning software frameworks such as Tensorflow, PyTorch
Exposure with topics in Fintech and or the legal industry
Our Story
Founded in 2005, AffiniPay’s mission is to build technology products that helps professionals focus on the work they love. As the leader in the professional payments industry, AffiniPay’s products serve legal, accounting, architectural, engineering and construction firms. Our portfolio of software solutions include MyCase (Legal Practice Management Software), CASEpeer (Practice Management for Personal Injury Firms), Docketwise (Immigration & Case Management Software), (Soluno (Legal Accounting), and Woodpecker (Legal Document Automation). Our portfolio of payment solutions include LawPay (Legal), AffiniPay for Associations (Associations), CPACharge (Accounting Professionals), and ClientPay (Architect, Engineer, and Construction). AffiniPay’s products serve over one hundred thousand users, and we are noted as one of the fastest growing tech companies in Austin, Texas. We are constantly looking for talent to join our team to continue playing a key part in unlocking our potential.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at AffiniPay
At AffiniPay, we recognize that innovation occurs with a strong team of people who are diverse in background, personality, talent and ideas. Experience comes in many forms and ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace where we continue to learn from each other is an integral part of our culture. We are committed to creating a welcoming and transparent environment for all that embraces those differences through education, equal access to opportunities and information, inclusionary programs, and community outreach.
Benefits that Benefit You!
As a people first culture, we believe it is important that our teammates are happy, healthy, and productive. In order to best support that, AffiniPay provides award-winning benefits that can make a difference in your life - right now and for the future.
All employees receive fully covered medical, dental and vision coverage - Choose from our 2 available health plans based on what fits you and/or your family!
Have some fur babies? - We offer them insurance too!
RELAX and enjoy your time away with our flexible paid time off policy!
We will help you plan for your future - 401K, or RRSP if in Canada, with a company match
Competitive compensation packages that include mid-year and end-of-year bonuses and equity options for all full-time employees
Health Wellness Program that includes nutrition consultations, mental health apps, and access to discounted memberships
Have plans to grow your family? - Parental resources, including 16 weeks of paid time off for primary and secondary caregivers
Professional development opportunities including mentorships, leadership programs and our AffiniPayU courses
We believe it is important to give back with our Matching Gift Program and organized activities focused on donations, volunteerism and supporting the local communities throughout the country
D&I initiatives provide educational opportunities regarding multicultural issues, tolerance, and celebrating diversity among our entire staff
An incredible, in-office experience at our headquarters in Austin and San Diego including free lunch delivery, a fully stocked kitchen, and some “sweet” surprises for those afternoon pick-me-ups
Work Hard/Play Hard - We have an Experience Team focused on team and company events and activities throughout the year including summer photo contests, pumpkin patches, Thanksgiving potlucks, holiday celebrations, and more!
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