Senior Data Scientist, Kraken
Compliance Tech
$135-203k
Salary may differ for UK, EU and Canadian candidates. + Bonus + Equity
Cryptocurrency exchange
Job no longer available
Cryptocurrency exchange
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$135-203k
Salary may differ for UK, EU and Canadian candidates. + Bonus + Equity
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of industry experience in data science
- Data science experience in the financial industry
- A consistent track record of performing data analysis using Python and SQL
- Experience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems
- Versatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job
- The ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences
- Experience with containerization and deployments (docker, kubernetes)
- Experience with CI/CD (Gitlab, Argo, Airflow)
- Familiarity with financial crime and market abuse typologies is a plus
- Experience with crypto/blockchains preferred
What the job involves
- Join our Compliance Technology team and contribute to compliant, safe and mainstream adoption of cryptocurrencies
- The Compliance Technology team is focused on building the best in class Reg Tech tools that mitigate regulatory risk, optimize cost and build a leading Compliance program
- The Compliance Technology team includes data analysts, data scientists, software engineers, product managers and project managers working together to build, maintain and upgrade various Compliance systems and tools
- This team brings a unique blend of creativity, technical skills and Compliance knowhow
- The team members are located in seven countries in four different continents
- Partner with Compliance operations, Product, Engineering and other stakeholders to build descriptive and predictive models to identify anomalous activity
- Maintain, update, and enhance the transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring codebases
- Ensure that all activities meet model validation and audit requirements
- Design and build proof-of-concept models to test hypotheses and help with idea generation and refinement
- Develop unsupervised and supervised models to find anomalous and risky activity
- Use structured and unstructured data to enrich transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring metadata
- Develop anomaly detection, data quality checks, and data modeling tools to monitor key performance indicators to improve the efficiency of models
Application process
- This job is accepting ongoing applications and there is no application deadline
Our take
Kraken is the world’s largest global bitcoin exchange in euro volume and liquidity. Kraken’s clients also trade USD, CAD, ETH, XRP, LTC and other digital currencies, on a platform consistently rated the best and most secure bitcoin exchange by independent news media.
Kraken was the first bitcoin exchange to have its market data displayed on the Bloomberg Terminal, the first to pass a cryptographically verifiable proof-of-reserves audit, and one of the first exchanges to offer leveraged bitcoin margin trading.
Kraken are one of the top 3 bitcoin exchanges by volume, behind Coinbase and bit-x with an 18% market share. While this is a competitive space to operate in - the volume of crypto being exchanged every day is very high, so there's space for multiple winners.
Kraken have made a number of acquisitions and have strengthened its world-leading position with the launch of new products, features and apps and a 24/7 multi-lingual support line. The company will continue to provide clients with easier and more versatile ways to participate in the crypto ecosystem.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Few candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
13% female employees
22% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Feb 2019
$100m
SERIES C
Mar 2014
$5m
SERIES A
Total funding: $111.5m
Company benefits
- Work where you want: 90% of Krakenites work remotely, we believe people do their best work wherever they're happiest
- Flexibility and Autonomy: We are highly results-focused vs. time-focused. We want you to work when and how you need to keep you at your most proactive
- We value diversity: Our Team is spread across 60 countries. By joining Kraken you'll be part of a truly multicultural organization that values diversity and inclusion
- A new approach to salary: Kraken prides itself on being at the forefront of crypto innovation, and that means the majority of our workforce has the option to be paid in bitcoin
- Equity Options: Kraken owes its success and growth to its people. That's why we offer nearly all our Krakenites a stake in the company
Company values
- Crypto Conviction
- Assume Best Intent
- Innovative
- Collaborative
- Client Obsessed
- Productively Paranoid
- Globally Inclusive
- Humble
Company HQ
Financial District, San Francisco, CA
Articles
Leadership
Jesse Powell
(Chairman of the Board)Previously co-founded Verge Gallery & Studio Project, Lewt and Internet Ventures & Holdings
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