Please use other channels for recruiting. If you specifically have jobs for Apache contributors, try j...@apache.org
This mailing list is for other purposes. On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 2:38 PM, Skye King Laskin <s...@talentinterests.com>wrote: > I have been retained by the VP of Engineering, with Progreso > Financiero - a very unique, profitable start-up and technology company > based in Menlo Park, to continue to build out the strongest technology > team. Knowing the high bar that VMware uses, I feel that any of you > now looking for an unique and fulfilling challenge would likely fit > with our team well.The company has received aprox 115M in funding, are > now profitable, productized and scaling rapidly! > > Progreso Financiero (www.progressfin.com) aims to be the partner of > choice to the 23 million underbanked Hispanics in the United States > who need access to responsible and empowering financial products and > services. Unlike mainstream institutions, Progreso Financiero provides > loans without collateral to clients who lack credit history by using > its sophisticated risk-scoring system that emphasizes a client's true > capacity to afford a loan. Progreso Financiero engages with customers > in their neighborhoods, in their language, and with familiar faces > from the community to build relationships of trust that lead to a > lifetime of growth and prosperity. > > Progreso Financiero(PF) is at a critical point in pivoting from a > financial services mindset into a technology company that provides > financial services. This is a brand new position and an opportunity to > design and build modern data-driven algorithms and machine learning > models leveraging batch + real-time distributed systems to infer risk > associated to a potential customer. PF has an incredibly talented team > of engineers who dream of data, simple user experiences and the > endless possibility of applying new tech to build the algos and > internal / consumer facing platform to enable socially responsible > lending practices -- from scratch. > > Founded in 2005 - the business stemmed from a Stanford Graduate School > of Business project. Progreso Financiero is essentially micro lending > on a massive scale. It is a *for profit- company committed to social > responsibility. To date the company has extended over $400M in capital > to underserved Hispanic families. The company has over 70 locations > across CA, TX > > Currently, we have several openings across various levels (Senior, > Staff, Principle and Architects) in the following areas: Data & Risk, > Core Engines & Ops and Consumer Facing Apps. > > P.S. Our comp packages rules! Base + Bonus + Equity > > Ideal candidate will need to hit the ground running > > Command domain expertise > > Having an opinion/ point of view is important. > > Attitude musts: > > Self starter > > Self organizing > > Identify and attacks task without prompting. > > Please see attached JD's > > Let me know your thoughts. Happy to set up a time to provide > additional details on the company and opportunity. > > Thanks > -- > > Skye King Laskin > Sr. Strategic Technical Sourcer, TalentInterests > s...@talentinterests.com > 650-241-4174 m >
