Senior Data Scientist

Posted 23 Days Ago
Hiring Remotely in United States
Remote
140K-160K Annually
Senior level
Fintech • Machine Learning • Payments • Software • Financial Services
Signifyd is the world’s largest provider of guaranteed fraud protection.
The Role
The Senior Data Scientist builds production machine learning models and collaborates with teams to improve fraud detection and e-commerce experiences. Responsibilities include research, coding in Python, and communication with stakeholders.
Summary Generated by Built In

At Signifyd, we help merchants confidently grow their businesses by building trusted relationships with their customers. Our advanced technology, combined with a team genuinely invested in our clients’ success, creates frictionless shopping experiences, approving more good orders, protecting revenue, and keeping customers happy.

Trusted by thousands of leading merchants across more than 100 countries, we securely process billions of transactions each year. Our people are the heart of everything we do, driving our mission forward with commitment, empathy, and creativity. Join us on our mission to empower fearless commerce by helping online retailers provide superior customer experiences and eliminate fraud. Learn about our company values here!

The Data Science team builds production machine learning models that are the core of Signifyd's product.

We help businesses of all sizes minimize their fraud exposure and grow their sales. We also improve the e-commerce shopping experience for individuals by reducing the number of folks' orders that are incorrectly declined and by making account hijacking less profitable for criminals.

The team has end-to-end ownership of our decisioning engine, from research and development to online performance and risk management.

We value collaboration and team ownership -- no one should feel they're solving a hard problem alone.

Together we help each other develop our skills through peer review of experiments and code, group paper study to deepen our ML and stats understanding, and frequent knowledge-sharing through live demos, write-ups, and special cross-team projects.

The Data Science and Engineering team at Signifyd have always had a strong contingent of remote folks, individual contributors and team leads. The challenges of working remotely aren't new to us and we have experienced iterative improvements to our remote culture.

How you'll have an impact:

  • Be directly responsible for the performance of enterprise merchants with household names. 
  • Research real-time new fraud patterns with our Risk Intelligence team
  • Improve the important components of the Signifyd Commerce Protection Platform
  • Communicate complex ideas to a variety of audiences, including executives
  • Build production machine learning models that identify fraud
  • Write production and offline analytical code in Python
  • Work with distributed data pipelines
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to strengthen our machine-learning pipeline

Past experience you'll need:

  • A degree in computer science or a comparable analytical field
  • 5+ years of post-undergrad work experience required
  • Experience leading projects
  • Strong verbal and written communication skills
  • Strong machine learning and statistical background and a track record of being able to deliver under pressure.
  • Write code and review others' in a shared codebase in Python
  • Practical SQL knowledge
  • Design experiments and collect data
  • Familiarity with the Linux command line

Bonus points if you have:

  • Previous work in fraud, payments, or e-commerce
  • Data analysis in a distributed environment
  • Passion for writing well-tested production-grade code
  • A Master's Degree or PhD

Check out how Data Science is powering the new era of Ecommerce

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Benefits in our US offices:

  • Discretionary Time Off Policy (Unlimited!)
  • 401K Match
  • Stock Options
  • Annual Performance Bonus or Commissions
  • Paid Parental Leave (12 weeks)
  • On-Demand Therapy for all employees & their dependents
  • Dedicated learning budget through Learnerbly
  • Health Insurance
  • Dental Insurance
  • Vision Insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
  • Short Term and Long Term Disability Insurance
  • Life Insurance
  • Company Social Events
  • Signifyd Swag

We want to provide an inclusive interview experience for all, including people with disabilities. We are happy to provide reasonable accommodations to candidates in need of individualized support during the hiring process.

Signifyd provides a base salary, bonus, equity and benefits to all its employees. Our posted job may span more than one career level, and offered level and salary will be determined by the applicant’s specific experience, knowledge, skills, abilities, and location, as well as internal equity and alignment with market data.

USA Base Salary Pay Range
$140,000$160,000 USD

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The Company
HQ: San Jose, CA
450 Employees
Year Founded: 2011

What We Do

Signifyd provides an end-to-end Commerce Protection Platform that leverages its Commerce Network to maximize conversion, automate customer experience and eliminate fraud and consumer abuse for retailers. Signifyd counts among its customers a number of companies on the Fortune 1000 and Digital Commerce 360 Top 500 lists. Signifyd is headquartered in San Jose, CA., with locations in Denver, New York, Mexico City, São Paulo, Belfast, and London.

Why Work With Us

We have a hybrid working environment and culture built around collaboration, development, and diversity. We think it's incredibly important that people from all backgrounds feel a sense of inclusion and belonging and truly embody our company values. We also promote mental wellbeing with flexible time off!

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