Avant is a Chicago fintech offering personal loans and credit cards to middle-income US consumers, run on a Databricks, Spark, Kafka, Airflow and dbt data stack across AWS, GCP and Azure. Hiring is accelerating and skews senior toward data and finance, while LangChain adoption and projects around AI copilots, agents and governance show a push to scale generative AI beyond credit and fraud modeling.
Avant is a privately held financial technology company founded in 2012 and headquartered in Chicago, IL. It provides consumer credit products, including personal loans and credit cards, aimed at middle-income Americans. Avant is not a bank; its branded credit products are issued by a partner bank. The company has 201–500 employees and operates across data, finance, product, operations and security functions, with finance planning handled through tools such as NetSuite, Adaptive Planning and Essbase.
Avant uses Python, Ruby, Java and .NET, with Databricks, Apache Spark, Kafka, Airflow and dbt for data, XGBoost and SAS for modeling, and Kubernetes, Terraform, ArgoCD and Datadog across AWS, GCP and Azure.
Yes. Hiring is accelerating and concentrated in data and finance, mostly at senior level, with additional openings in product, operations and security.
Avant is adopting LangChain and working on internal AI copilots, scaling AI agents and workflows, establishing AI governance, and model deployment, alongside fraud rule development.
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