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Join us as a Data Scientist
Want to do work that really matters?At Checkatrade, we’re building the UK’s go-to home improvement marketplace. Every day, we help millions of homeowners find the right tradesperson for the job – fast, fair, and without the faff.
As our next Data Scientist, based in Barcelona or London, you’ll play a key role in shaping an AI-powered Checkatrade. From improving how homeowners find the right trades to helping trades win work more efficiently, your work will directly influence how intelligence drives decisions across our two-sided marketplace – at real scale, in the real world.
Forget long lists – here’s what you’ll actually spend your time on:Experimenting with LLMs, retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) and other advanced approaches to improve matching, ranking and recommendations
Building, testing and deploying production-ready models – from forecasting and NLP to classification and MMM – that power our core marketplace systems
Working closely with Engineering, Product, Analytics and BI to ensure models are scalable, observable and delivering measurable impact
Embedding AI and data science into everyday workflows so intelligence shapes every customer and trade experience
Helping define how we responsibly experiment, evaluate and ship ethical AI through our internal AI playbook
Strong applied experience with SQL, Python, and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow and Hugging Face
A proven track record of building and deploying production-grade machine learning models
Comfort moving between rapid experimentation and rigorous model evaluation
A pragmatic mindset – knowing when to fine-tune, when to use off-the-shelf models, and when simple beats complex
Curiosity, creativity and a genuine drive to turn data into tangible, measurable impact
Competitive salary + annual bonus
Health, wellbeing and learning support
Flexible, remote-friendly working – with hybrid time in our Barcelona or London office
Lunch vouchers to keep you fuelled while you build
Birthday / special day leave
Buy & sell holiday scheme
1 week’s paid charity leave – and much more
Screening call with one of our Talent Acquisition Partners
Technical interview with a Senior Data Science colleague
Second-stage interview with the Hiring Manager
Final stage focused on culture and real-world problem solving with Senior Stakeholders
If you require any reasonable adjustments during our interview process, please discuss them with your Talent Acquisition Partner.
If this sounds like the place where you can do your best work, we’d love to hear from you – even if you don’t tick every box.
About us
We’re Checkatrade – the UK’s leading platform for finding a tradesperson. With more than 50,000 trades listed and over 6 million reviews, we help homeowners get jobs done right and help tradespeople grow their business.
We’re growing fast, with big plans to become the go-to brand for home improvements. If you care about great work, take pride in the details, and want to make an impact, you’ll fit right in.
Top Skills
What We Do
Checkatrade is one of the UK’s top online marketplaces for home improvements and repairs.
Our mission is to be the trusted foundation of every home by connecting people with trades and tools to make home improvements easy – because we believe safe and happy homes improve lives, support livelihoods, and build communities.
From our humble beginnings in 1998 to becoming a national household name, we’re on an exciting journey. For more than 25 years Checkatrade has stood for reputation and raising standards – whether that is for our trade members, consumers, or our colleagues. We think big and are passionate about changing the face of home improvements and repairs.
Today, we are a modern online marketplace and a force for good. We strive every day to support people to improve their homes and we don’t settle for the status quo – we are evolving, innovating, and growing.
With generous investment from private equity partners Brookfield, we have an ambitious growth plan and a robust roadmap to get there. Led by our values – Be All In, Always Customer Obsessed, Get It Done, Be Bold, and Do The Right Thing – we are 500 high-performing individuals working across the UK, with high-spec offices in London and Portsmouth.
We are here to be the best and inspire others to do the same, and to get there we need exceptionally talented, bright, and driven people – so if that sounds like you, you couldn’t join at a better time!
