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Senior Data Scientist — Credit Risk Modelling

📍 Location
kuala lumpur
⏰ Job Type
Full-time
📅 Posted
June 18, 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...

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