Data Science Intern
Company Description
It all started with an idea at Block in 2013. Initially built to take the pain out of peer-to-peer payments, Cash App has gone from a simple product with a single purpose to a dynamic app, bringing a better way to send, spend, invest, borrow and save to our millions of monthly active users. With a mission to redefine the world's relationship with money by making it more relatable, available and accessible, at Cash App you'll have the opportunity to make a real-world impact with your career.
Today, Cash App has thousands of employees around the world with a culture geared toward creativity, collaboration and impact. We've been a distributed team since day one, and continue to value working across time zones and continents both remotely and in our Cash App offices.
Our offices are great, but many of our roles can be done remotely from the countries where Block operates. We tailor our experience to champion our employees' creativity and productivity wherever they are.
Job Description
This opportunity is only open to students who are currently enrolled in either an undergraduate, Masters or PhD program and offers an 4-month term (with a possibility for extension) on Cash App's Data Science team starting in Summer or Fall of 2022. If you've already graduated (or are set to graduate before the end of 2022) please apply to one of our full-time roles.
We leverage Data Science to derive valuable insights from our extremely unique datasets and turn those into actions that improve the experience for our customers every day. Our massive scale and deep trove of transaction data create an endless number of opportunities to use data science to better understand our customers and offer new products and experiences that can improve their lives. We are a highly creative group that prefers to solve problems from first principles; we move quickly, make incremental changes, and deploy to production every day. Our Data Scientists operate embedded in product-focused Workstreams and work in close collaboration with Product Managers, ML Modelers, Designers and Software Engineers from across Cash App.
Over the course of your term, you will:
- Be embedded in a Workstream and work directly with a Product Data Scientist as well as a wider group of cross-functional partners including Product Management, Engineering and Design
- Analyze large datasets using SQL and scripting languages to surface meaningful insights and opportunities
- Use a variety of statistical and mathematical modeling techniques to research and understand customer behavior
- Build, forecast, and report on metric
- Write code to effectively process, cleanse, and combine data sources
- Build and share data visualizations and self-serve dashboards for your Product team
Qualifications
You have:
- Active study in an undergraduate or graduate degree
- Proficiency with SQL and working with datasets
- Demonstrated ability and enthusiasm for learning new tool
- Understanding of statistical concepts such as selection bias, probability distributions, and conditional probabilities
- Intellectual curiosity and a passion for what Cash App is building
Technologies we use and teach:
- SQL (MySQL, Snowflake, BigQuery, etc.)
- Python (Pandas, Numpy)
- Tableau, Airflow, Looker
Additional Information
We're working to build a more inclusive economy where our customers have equal access to opportunity, and we strive to live by these same values in building our workplace. Block is a proud equal opportunity employer. We work hard to evaluate all employees and job applicants consistently, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, pregnancy, gender expression or identity, sexual orientation, citizenship, or any other legally protected class.
We believe in being fair, and are committed to an inclusive interview experience, including providing reasonable accommodations to disabled applicants throughout the recruitment process. We encourage applicants to share any needed accommodations with their recruiter, who will treat these requests as confidentially as possible. Want to learn more about what we're doing to build a workplace that is fair and square? Check out our I+D page .
Additionally, we consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment on our team, assessing candidates in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance.
Block, Inc. (NYSE: SQ) is a global technology company with a focus on financial services. Made up of Square, Cash App, Spiral, TIDAL, and TBD, we build tools to help more people access the economy. Square helps sellers run and grow their businesses with its integrated ecosystem of commerce solutions, business software, and banking services. With Cash App, anyone can easily send, spend, or invest their money in stocks or Bitcoin. Spiral (formerly Square Crypto) builds and funds free, open-source Bitcoin projects. Artists use TIDAL to help them succeed as entrepreneurs and connect more deeply with fans. TBD is building an open developer platform to make it easier to access Bitcoin and other blockchain technologies without having to go through an institution.