Data Scientist

At Silent Eight, we develop our own AI-based products to combat financial crimes that enable things like money laundering, the financing of terrorism, and systemic corruption. We’re a leading RegTech firm working with large international financial institutions such as Standard Chartered Bank and HSBC. Join us and help make the world a safer place! 

Job Overview:

Our Data Scientist will design prototype classifiers and problem-solving algorithms. This role will spend about 50% of the time within R&D. You will be responsible for creating innovative algorithms that ingest the unstructured and semi-structure language information available to the system and turn this information into actionable services.

Key Duties: 

• Learn from Subject Matter Experts (financial crime, machine learning, software architecture and more)
• As a member of the data science team, you will research and develop new methodologies and techniques to improve the overall effectiveness of risk management. Key part of the job function is to mine and analyze massive amounts of unique internal and external data to gain deep business knowledge and insight on customer activity and behaviors and their relationships with fraud, and other types of behaviors.
• Work with technologically fluent management, who understand the hardships of data science and software development from experience
• Design and analyze experiments to verify product hypothesis and direction.
• Maintain strong autonomy with no micromanagement
• Set worldwide standards for identifying money laundering and terrorism financing events
• Approach the problem with any solution that works, be it machine learning or otherwise
• Hone your NLP and text analysis skills to a master level
• Assist sales team in providing proof of value concepts to prospective customers.

Modern Technology Stack: 

• Work methodology: Scrum
• Main technologies: Python 3, SQL,
• Tools used: Flask, Pandas, PySpark, nltk, gRPC, Jupyter Notebooks, Docker
• Build server: Jenkins, GitLab
• Database: PostgreSQL
• Code reviews: GitLab
• Issue tracking tool: Jira
• Knowledge repository: Confluence, Google Drive
• Operating system: Linux
• Freedom to choose tools: Yes

Requirements: 

• Expertise in Python, Pyspark, NLP Libraries 
• Statistics and machine learning. 
• Translate complex, technical concepts into actionable, high-level business ideas
• Linux environment (Bash) and continuous integration will get you extra points

Benefits

• Paid time off
• Employee Share Options
• Wellness Stipend
• Location: Fully remote forever (with a possibility to work from a co-working office)
• Career growth: Promotion and great development opportunities within the organization
• Monthly Team Building events

Our culture

You will be co-creating our business solutions

We believe that your feedback allows us to create the best solutions as well as adjusted work culture. You will have a real impact on the growth of the company and the product we develop. 

Experienced team

We aren’t your run-of-the-mill tech start-up. At Silent Eight, everyone is a leader in their own field with perspective and experience shared across teams and departments.

Development-centric

Because learning never ends, we empower our employees to invest in themselves. We provide a range of resources such as paid Development Days, in-house training, lunch-and-learns, etc. to make sure our employees are continuing to grow each day.  

Team building events

We know that our success is only possible if we work together as a team. We are a group of passionate individuals united by a common mission. Therefore we like to meet together regularly to connect not just as coworkers, but as human beings, whether it’s at an offsite in Dubai or a weekly “Tea Time” to catch up. 

100% remote work forever

We are not new to working remotely. In fact, we’ve been doing it since 2013 and we know how to make you feel supported, connected, and included. We believe that the freedom to choose where you work from is important to finding the journey that is right for you.

Don’t wait! Join our team today! 

Silent Eight is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or other classification protected by applicable federal, state or local law.