We’re looking for a curious and motivated data scientist to spend 3+ months with our fintech startup in London. This internship / industrial placement offers a unique opportunity to make a meaningful impact, gain hands-on experience, and work closely with the founding team of a seed-stage company. You’ll have the autonomy to take ownership of exciting projects, while receiving support and mentorship to help you grow. If you’re excited about contributing to the fight against scams and financial crime at an early-stage startup, read on to learn more ⬇️
We’re on a mission to rid the world of scams. Last year, consumers reported over 200k scams in the UK alone, and it’s likely that many more went unreported. At Tunic Pay, we’re rearchitecting payments infrastructure to bring that number to 0 by giving unprecedented insight into and control of each transaction. Our core infrastructure is building Payment Intelligence, and eventually the governance for real-time payments.
We are a super early & super fortunate fintech startup — we closed our seed round in November ’23 💡, and we already find ourselves with the amazing opportunity of working with some of the largest banks and most exciting FinTechs in the UK🧤. This is our opportunity to lose. To get there, there are ton of challenges we need to tackle, from crafting delightful experiences that drive conversion through our consumer-facing touchpoints, to integrating diverse data and models to maximize predictiveness, to developing the next generation of security- & privacy-protecting protocols. And as if that’s not hard enough, we are working with some of our customers’ most sensitive data and need to deliver 24/7/365 uptime. Our goals are almost ludicrously ambitious, but scams have to be solved systemically, and we think we’re the team to do it 🦸♀️.
We believe strongly in-person collaboration. Our team spends 3+ days a week jamming together in our London office (Farringdon), and we believe this face time is the best way to support you and your growth too.
Nicky (co-founder) previously co-founded Nova Credit, helping immigrants access credit. We’ve served millions of immigrants, raised over $130M (GC, Index, KPCB), built a team of 100+ people across three continents. Before that it was Stanford MBA, Bain, international development, and Cambridge. 🇬🇷-🇬🇧 married to🇰🇷-🇺🇲, parent, intermittent reader/runner, smack talker.
Nico (co-founder) spent the last 4 years as CEO of Casai, LatAm’s largest short-term rental operator with almost 2k apartments in 🇲🇽 and 🇧🇷 and hosted >100k guests. Previously met Nicky as Nova Credit’s first biz hire right after the seed round. Started career @ BCG after studying at Yale 🐶 & Oxford. Born in 🇵🇭 & grew up in Memphis, TN, the birthplace of rock & roll 🎸.
Cyrus (engineering lead) has experience across a wide range of industries and has built large-scale systems in a variety of sensitive contexts from banking 🏦 to defence 🛡️. Has been working with Nicky and Nico since late last year. Ex-Palantir and Morgan Stanley, before that Imperial College. Statistically most likely to be found walking my dog 🐕 and would often rather be climbing rocks 🧗♂️.
And here is a lil video about us as humans (feel free to watch @2x 🙈) 👇.
Here are some thoughts on who would be successful in the role. Our interview process will be designed around them: