Senior Data Scientist London

Lenkie is a fast-growing UK SME lender on a mission to give small businesses access to fair, fast, and flexible finance. We're at an exciting inflection point — scaling our lending book and building the data infrastructure that will power our credit decisions for years to come.

This is a rare opportunity to be the foundational data science hire and have a genuine hand in shaping how we think about credit risk, model development, and data-driven decisioning in risk as well as other parts of the business.

About the job

We're looking for a (Senior) Data Scientist with deep credit risk experience to join us as one of our earliest data hires. You'll work closely with the Head of Credit, Credit Risk Manager and CTO to build our modelling capability from the ground up — from scorecard development and underwriting automation to portfolio analytics and early warning systems as well as Customer Lifetime Values.

This isn't a role where you'll plug into an e...