Data Scientist
Here at Hometap, we’re collaborative, passionate, and always ready to roll up our sleeves to create solutions that help people get more out of homeownership — and out of life. Our first product, a home equity investment, gives homeowners the opportunity to quickly access the equity they’ve built in their home to pay for what’s most important to them, from handling debt to finally making much-needed renovations, without taking on debt.
We work hard, and have some fun along the way, too. You don’t have to take our word for it: The Boston Globe and Comparably have recognized us as a great place to work, and we’ve been honored for our commitment to innovation in the fintech space by BostInno, HousingWire, and more!
In case you need any more convincing, we also provide competitive compensation, healthcare coverage, unlimited PTO, a generous share package, and a strong culture with plenty of opportunities for team-building and camaraderie.
Interested in joining us on our mission to make homeownership less stressful and more accessible? We’d love to talk.
Who You Are:
The Data Science team at Hometap ensures we are making the right investments in the right homeowners and homes across the country. Our comprehensive roadmap includes building and deploying models to predict most aspects of a homeowner’s journey with us in an effort to streamline the process for the homeowner and maximize investor value.
A Data Scientist is more than just good at building machine learning models, they are an analyst, researcher, storyteller, project planner, and more. Your work combines identifying the right data sources and building the models to inform decisions; from marketing targeting, to underwriting, to portfolio management. You’ll have the opportunity to work cross-functionally as part of a broader data team led by a Head of Data Science and Analytics with deep experience building and leading data teams at finance startups. More than anything, we are seeking data scientists who are driven to deliver business impact.
What You’ll Do:
- Drive the business forward through data-driven decision-making built on sound analysis and models
- Utilize your data science expertise to ensure we are correctly assessing potential homes and homeowners for our portfolio; understand and model a Homeowner’s propensity for financial responsibility, and determine potential property appreciation relative to other homes within our markets.
- Perform deep dive analyses of processes and data to determine key drivers and relay those results to stakeholders.
- Work closely with Data Engineering and Business Intelligence to source data, understand what that data is telling us, and present those results to the organization
What You’ll Bring:
- Strong knowledge of residential real estate and/or finance and related data sources
- Evidenced ability to understand business needs quickly and identify and prioritize data science efforts to deliver impact
- Demonstrated project management skills and the ability to work effectively with business partners
- Demonstrated ability to source, access, and clean data, and to build models using that data from linear regression to advanced ML models
- Demonstrated ability to analyze large data sets that may not be clean, and deliver compelling insights to technical and non-technical audiences
- 1+ years experience building ML models in Python
- Experience productionalizing models
- Statistical analysis methodologies with visualization skills
- 1+ years experience with SQL and/or NoSQL data warehouses, including cloud-based distributed storage and compute.
- Master’s degree or PhD in computer science, data science, economics, statistics, or related field or successful completion of a data science bootcamp
Hometap is on a mission to make homeownership less stressful and more accessible. Our home equity investment product provides homeowners with a fast, simple, and straightforward way to access the equity in their home without taking out a loan or having to sell. By investing alongside homeowners, Hometap offers debt-free cash in exchange for a share of their home’s future value — all without any monthly payments or interest over the life of the investment. Through a combination of financial innovation and best-in-class customer service, Hometap enables people to get more from homeownership so they can get more from life.
Hometap believes that our differences are what bring us together, and one of our biggest priorities is creating a diverse workplace that welcomes and values each team member’s unique perspective, background, and ideas. All roles here are filled based solely on candidates’ qualifications and our business needs.
Hometap is based in Boston, but will consider remote work for this position; however, the position must be performed in the United States entirely outside of Colorado.