Lead Machine Learning Engineer

We’re looking for a Machine Learning Lead Engineer who wants to operate as a player-coach — someone still very hands-on, but excited to grow into a proper management role over time. This is not a pure manager role from day one. You’ll be building, shipping, and improving ML systems while gradually taking on more team leadership responsibilities. What you’ll do: Build and maintain production-grade ML systems and pipelines Stay hands-on (coding, reviews, debugging, deployments) Mentor a small team of ML engineers (2–3 people initially) Establish ML engineering & MLOps best practices Improve deployment, monitoring, and model lifecycle management Collaborate with DS, Risk, Product, and Engineering Help shape roadmap and hiring Strong background as an ML Engineer (not purely DS/research) Experience deploying and running ML models in production Solid software engineering skills (Python, APIs, systems) Good understanding of MLOps stack (CI/CD, monitoring, pipelines) Familiarity with tools like MLflow, Airflow, Evidently, DVC, Docker, Kubernetes. Cloud experience (AWS/GCP/Azure) Some mentoring/leadership experience + desire to grow into management Nice to have: Experience scaling ML platforms or teams Fintech / lending / risk domain exposure