Data Scientist

Predictive analytics and machine learning power Socure’s groundbreaking technology and fuel our mission to verify 100% of good identities in real time and completely eliminate identity fraud on the internet. 

Socure is the world leader in digital identity verification and fraud prevention. Our recent awards include Forbes 2022 America’s Best Startup Employers, The Forbes Cloud 100, The Deloitte Technology Fast 500, and Inc. 5000’s fastest growing companies. 

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About the role:    We are currently looking for Data Scientists for our Fraud Products Team to be based in Chennai, India or remote in India.

The Socure DS Fraud team is responsible for developing cutting edge Fraud, Risk and Synthetic Identification products, building machine learning models using latest ML algorithms and technologies, building data-processing pipelines, evaluating the performance of new data sources, and providing analytical support to the Socure Fraud and Risk product suite.

Responsibilities:

• Implement machine learning, data mining, statistical, and graph-based algorithms designed to analyze massive data sets
• Implement new data modeling solutions and improvements to existing solutions
• Integrate new data sources and API third-party products in the main framework
• Work with Big Data technologies using Spark
• Provide analytical support to the data science team
• Own and drive projects from conception to completion
• Collaborate with data scientists, engineers and other key stakeholders
• Manage feature engineering lifecycle including prototyping, validating, maintenance of features. 
• Partner with Cloud technologists to ensure proper implementation and usage of said algorithms
• Work well in a fast-paced cross-functional environment
• Analyze large data sets to develop multiple, custom models and algorithms to drive innovative correlations for fraud and acceptance data as well as social data

Qualifications: 

• BE/B.TECH/ME/MSc in computer science, industrial engineering, electrical engineering, operations research, mathematics, statistics or similar or equivalent work experience. 
• 2- 4 years of industry experience working in a similar role
• Experience in data-driven algorithms in information retrieval, relevance, or machine learning and working with distributed systems.
• Strong Python/R programming background 
• Big data tools using spark (Scala or Python) in distributed systems.
• Good working knowledge of SQL
• AWS (s3, emr, aws cli minimum)

Preferred:

• Dashboard development experience (Dash, Bokeh, R Shiny)
• Experience with data workflow managers such as Airflow, Drake, or Luigi
• Experience in advanced analytics and developing machine learning models
• Programming experience in Scala, Java
• Experience with containerization (Docker) 
• Experience with cloud ecosystems such as Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services

 

Socure is all about encouraging people to push the boundaries of what’s possible through top-tier performance, innovation, ownership, and shared expertise. 

We empower excellence by providing great perks and benefits to both our fully remote employees in North America and our hybrid teams in India. 

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Socure is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of all kinds at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

 

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Socure's Impact on Financial Inclusion: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6nBc6s1wsU 

Socure's Impact on Fraud Prevention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M46UG8QyKe4 

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