Staff Data Scientist (ML) - Order Risk (Remote, US or Canada)

Company Description

Opportunity is not evenly distributed. Shopify puts independence within reach for anyone with a dream to start a business. Since 2006, we’ve grown to over 10,000 employees and generated over $500 billion in sales for millions of merchants in 175 countries. Every 28 seconds, an entrepreneur on Shopify makes their first sale.

This is life-defining work that directly impacts people’s lives as much as it transforms your own. This is putting the power of the few in the hands of the many, is a future with more voices rather than fewer, and is creating more choices instead of an elite option.

About you

Moving at our pace brings a lot of change, complexity, and ambiguity—and a little bit of chaos. Shopifolk thrive on that and are comfortable being uncomfortable. That means Shopify is not the right place for everyone.

Before you apply, consider if you can:

• Care deeply about what you do and about making commerce better for everyone
• Excel by seeking professional and personal hypergrowth
• Keep up with an unrelenting pace (the week, not the quarter)
• Be resilient and resourceful in face of ambiguity and thrive on (rather than endure) change
• Bring critical thought and opinion — and embrace differences and disagreement to get shit done and move forward
• Work digital-first for your daily work

Job Description

Within Merchant Services, our job is to build superpowers that put small businesses on a level playing field with the largest e-commerce players.

As a Staff Data Scientist, you are expected to play a crucial role pushing forward product development across multiple domains. Staff Data Scientists do this by informing high-level product strategy and execution, building a strong and broad operating picture allowing us to move quickly, and/or improving underlying algorithms, heuristics and rules powering individual products. We expect a very high degree of autonomy and proactivity, as well as the ability to compound the work of multiple data scientists into powerful conclusions.

Responsibilities: 

• Proactively identify and champion projects that solve critical problems for merchants
• Partner closely with product, engineering and other business leaders to influence product and program decisions with data
• Own the operating picture and use a strong analytical toolbox to highlight opportunities and guide execution
• Build actionable KPIs, production-quality dashboards, informative deep dives, and scalable data products
• Influence leadership to drive more data-informed decisions
• Define and advance best practices within data science and product teams

Qualifications

Qualifications: 

• Experience in end-to-end lifecycle of ML model - conceptualizing, building and deploying ML model in production environment
• Proficiency in Python and experience with software architecture and system design
• Experience with applied statistics and general quantitative problem-solving
• Demonstrated ability to translate analytical insights into clear recommendations and effectively communicate them to technical and non-technical stakeholders
• Curiosity about the problem domain and an analytical approach
• Strong sense of ownership and growth mindset

Experience with one or more:

• Understanding of SQL techniques ,experience with Spark and ML frameworks  
• Experience working with real time/streaming data
• Expertise with statistical techniques and their applications in business
• Deep understanding of dimensional modelling and scaling ETL pipelines
• Extensive domain experience in Risk, Fraud and Abuse Prevention

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities. 

Shopify is now permanently remote, and we’re working towards a future that is digital by design. That location you see above? Consider it merely an example of hundreds of potential locations Shopify is hiring. Learn more here: https://www.shopify.com/careers/work-anywhere 

Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity & inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We encourage applications from Indigenous peoples, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities, and/or people with intersectional identities. Please take a look at our Sustainability Reports to learn more about Shopify’s commitments to our communities, and our planet. 

At Shopify, we understand that experience comes in many forms. We’re dedicated to adding new perspectives to the team - so if your experience is this close to what we’re looking for, please consider applying.