Senior Data Scientist — Credit Risk Modelling
Direct Lending • kuala lumpur, kuala lumpur • Posted June 14, 2026
About the Role
Direct Lending is a fast-growing, award-winning lending fintech on a mission to empower people's lives with simple and responsible financing. Over the past four years we have disbursed 60,000 needs-based financing cases across car repair/ service, motor insurance renewal and medical — and we are now scaling our loan book and working toward IPO readiness by 2030.
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist — Credit Risk Modelling to own, improve, and evolve our credit decisioning models. You will work closely with our data science, product, and tech teams to ensure our straight-through approval engine is accurate, scalable, and continuously improving — enabling us to grow approval rates without increasing default, while expanding access to financing for bank‑underserved segments through the use of alternative data.
Why Join Direct Lending
- Real impact on a live portfolio. 60,000 financing cases and growing. Your model improvements tran...