Senior Data Scientist

About the role

Kredivo is looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join a team working on cutting-edge machine learning models. You will work alongside analysts and machine learning engineers, taking full ownership of your work from idea generation to the final product. The ideal candidate is result-focused, innovative, has a solid quantitative background and a good business understanding.

Key responsibilities

• Turn discoveries and ideas into machine learning models in a multi-disciplinary team.
• Prototype diverse models, from credit scoring to recommendation engines.
• Research and develop ways to improve models using the company's large and unique dataset.
• Contribute actively to advancing Data Science at Kredivo.

Required profile

• More than 5 years of relevant work experience.
• Masters, PhD or equivalent experience in a quantitative field such as computer science, mathematics, statistics, econometrics, engineering or artificial intelligence.
• Ability to build robust end-to-end predictive models with modern machine learning techniques.
• Excellent English communication skills.

Required skills

• Proficiency in Python or R.
• Exposure to RDBMS (e.g. MySQL, PostgreSQL) and NoSQL platforms (e.g. S3).
• Bonus: experience with alternative data for credit risk evaluation, and with end-to-end deep learning or NLP models.