Senior Data Scientist - Product Platform
Toronto or Remote (Canada)
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Wealthsimple
Wealthsimple is the simple way to grow your money like the world's most sophisticated investors. No-maintenance portfolios, expert investment advisers and low fees.Our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money. Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas.
We’re a remote-first team and output is more important than face time, so where you choose to work is up to you — as long as you have internet access, you can work from anywhere in Canada. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us! Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.
At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.
About the team
The Data Science & Engineering (DSE) team consists of data scientists and software engineers with diverse educational backgrounds such as math, operations research, economics, computer science, engineering and business. The team is responsible for enabling data-driven decision making and building data products at Wealthsimple. We achieve these goals by:
Building a high quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision makingLeveraging machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smarter financial productsUsing decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions
About the roles
We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who has strong foundations in data modelling, statistics and product analytics to work with the Product Platform team. As Wealthsimple continues to scale, our ability to enable customers to transfer assets seamlessly, understand financial data, and protect against fraud is critical. The platform organization is responsible for building the services that power all of the Wealthsimple products. These core services are shared across the platform with the goal of improving the speed at which we scale and launch new products and continue to improve our current offerings.
As a Senior Data Scientist working with the Product Platform team, some of your projects will include, but not limited to: modelling verification data, drive automation, and incorporate intelligence into existing manual bank and ID verification processes by employing OCR, and optimize the bank verification process by identifying smarter ways of routing bank linking volume between third party data services such as Flinks/Plaid.
In this role, you will have the opportunity to:
Build and maintain new data models that are accurate and reliableDesign, define, and implement metrics and dimensions to enable analysis and predictive modellingPartner with Product and Engineering teams to solve impactful problems Think outside the box and design experiments to test hypothesesBuild/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our productsHelp build and lead a great data science team to deliver world-class productsGet the best out of the team by leveraging their diverse educational backgroundsTeach and learn from their teammates. We value making others successful
Skills we are looking for:
Excellent Python & SQL skills.Strong understanding of statistics: both frequentist and Bayesian approachesExperience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry settingStrong understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression and decision treesFirst hand experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikt-learn, numpy and JupyterExcellent communicator who is able to present results and analysis to senior leadershipExperience in managing team members in a formal or informal capacityIt’s a bonus if you have hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, and a BI tool like Periscope, Mode Analytics or Tableau
* Salary range is an estimate based on our AI, ML, Data Science Salary Index 💰
Tags: A/B testing Airflow Bayesian Computer Science Economics Engineering Machine Learning NumPy OCR Pandas Periscope Python Research SQL Statistics Tableau Testing
Perks/benefits: Career development
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