London, Greater London, United Kingdom Remote (Global)

M-KOPA is hiring a Senior Data Scientist - Credit Eligibility

About the Role

About the Role

Role details below.

Responsibilities

  • Build and refine credit scoring and risk modelling solutions that assess customer creditworthiness, default risk, and loan pricing across multiple markets
  • Develop and test ML models for loan eligibility and pricing optimisation through A/B testing and statistical analysis
  • Continuously improve eligibility criteria by analysing repayment data, engineering new features, and monitoring credit performance for risk shifts and margin impact
  • Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers, data scientists, and commercial stakeholders to scale models into production

Work Arrangement

global

Team

Team size: small. Structure: high-performing team with end-to-end ownership of credit scoring, loan eligibility, and pricing optimisation

Additional Information

  • Work with diverse teams across UK, Europe, and Africa
  • Low-ego environment where diversity, innovation, and collaboration drive both commercial growth and social impact
  • High degree of ownership over your domain — empowered to make data-driven decisions and prioritise solutions
  • Analytical rigor combined with deep market understanding to serve customers excluded from formal financial services
  • Fully remote role within UTC -1 to UTC +3 time zones
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M-KOPA
Creates financial inclusion for the traditionally excluded through a fair, flexible, customer-centric financing model. A technology company that has served over 5 million customers, unlocking $1.5 billion in cumulative credit for the unbanked across Africa.
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