Senior Data Scientist

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Checkout.com is looking for an experienced data scientist to work on the research and development of Machine Learning (ML) models for fraud detection and other business cases. These algorithms will be deployed to provide near-real-time transaction risk predictions, which Checkout.com’s merchants use to make smart payment routing decisions based on their risk appetite.
You will join an ambitious team of data scientists and engineers who are working to deliver fraud detection ML models to Checkout.com’s merchants, at scale. Your work will significantly move the needle within a product area that has high strategic importance to Checkout.com.

What you will be doing:

• You will be expected to make substantial contributions to the research & development of new ML models.
• Advise on where the team should be focusing its efforts to improve model performance.
• Design and implement experiments to produce actionable insights and improve model performance.
• Collaborate with other data scientists and engineers to productionise ML features/models.
• Write high-quality Python for feature engineering and model training.

About you:

• Experience in fintech and/or payments.
• At least 4 years experience applying ML to solve real-world problems.
• Strong expertise in: machine learning, probability, statistics.
• PhD/MSc in Machine Learning or other STEM field.
• Experience in mentoring more junior members of the team.
• Experience applying scientific methods and thoughtful experimental design.
• Strong familiarity with decision tree ensembles.
• Familiar with distributed cluster-computing (e.g. Spark, Dask, Hadoop).
• Solid software engineering skills and able to write high-quality Python code.
• Experience working with scientific Python stack (e.g. pandas, Scikit-learn, XGBoost, SciPy).
• Experience with SQL databases and key-value stores (NoSQL).
• Experience with Docker.
• Experience with AWS or at least another common cloud platform (GCP/Azure).
• Familiar with the unix shell, and shell scripting (for automating tasks).

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More about Checkout.comWe empower businesses to adapt, innovate and thrive with the connected payments they deserve. Our technology makes payments seamless. We provide the fastest, most reliable payments in more than 150 currencies, with in-country acquiring, world-class fraud filters and reporting, through one API. And we can accept all major international credit and debit cards, as well as popular alternative and local payment methods. Checkout.com launched in 2012, and we now have a team of 1000 people across 17 international offices. To date, we’ve raised a total of $830 million, with our recent Series C valuing us at $15 billion.
We believe in equal opportunitiesCheckout.com is an equal opportunities employer. We welcome applications from all members of society irrespective of age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, race, religion, or belief. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience, skills and personality. We believe that employing a diverse workforce is the right thing to do and is central to our success.