Senior Data Scientist, Checkout.com

• At least 4 years experience applying ML to solve real-world problems
• Prior experience in a Financial Services/FinTech business
• Solid software engineering skills and able to write high-quality Python code
• Experience in mentoring more junior members of the team
• Experience applying scientific methods and thoughtful experimental design
• Experience with Docker
• Experience with AWS or at least another common cloud platform (GCP/Azure)

Desirable

• We're on the lookout for a Senior Data Scientist to join our Acceptance Rates team, working on end-to-end research and development of Machine Learning models to optimise the payment performance of our merchants
• You'll be responsible for continually improving existing models and identifying new opportunities to apply Machine Learning to solve real world problems, using cutting-edge approaches such as Reinforcement Learning
• The work this team does has a proven track record of moving the needle within a product area that has high strategic importance to Checkout.com, so there's huge opportunity for tangible impact
• 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