Senior Data Scientist

Feedzai
  • Atlanta, Georgia
  • Remote
  • Autofill and Review
30+ days ago

Job Description

At Feedzai, we're building a world of safer money. A world where financial institutions move faster than criminals. Where the payments that fund real lives through salaries, savings, and businesses are protected in real time. We use trusted AI to detect and prevent financial crime, fraud, and money laundering at scale: the world's top banks, payment networks, and acquirers trust our technology to safeguard more than one billion consumers and $9 trillion in payment volume every year. 

Feedzai is a Series D company and has raised $282M to date. With a valuation of $2 billion, our technology protects 1 billion consumers and 90 billion transactions each year.


The Data Science Team within Customer Success is highly engaged with our clients making use of their critical thinking skills with a business-focused mentality and customer-facing attitude. They activate, maintain, and support clients, develop models and rules, and train & enable them. In addition, they work cross-functionally with other departments (e.g., Research, Product, Marketing) in a collaborative team spirit spanning the globe to ensure we deliver best in class risk prevention solutions. Being on the frontline of fighting crime and protecting people from financial harm is incredibly inspiring to each of us. 

Your Day to Day:

  • Understanding the data which our clients provide to us;
  • Cleaning that data and validating that it is correct;
  • Preprocessing the data, usually by using a mixture of shell scripts and a programming language such as Python, Java, Scala, etc.;
  • Iteratively computing features and tuning parameters to improve the quality of the model;
  • Communicating your findings to the project manager and assisting him/her in decision making on the Data Science part of the project;
  • Work together with key stakeholders (data scientists, engineers, risk managers) from our clients;
  • Work with other parts of the organization (Product, Research, etc.) to improve processes, best practices and tooling.

You Have & You Know-how:

  • MSc or PhD in Computer Science, Electrical Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, Physics or related field;
  • Proficient in Machine Learning (training and testing, avoiding overfit, etc.);
  • Knowledge of Big Data technologies such as Spark, Hadoop and related;
  • Proficiency in bash, Python and either Java or Scala;
  • Knowledge of resource monitoring and runtime optimization (both at JVM and OS level);
  • Superior oral, presentation, and written communication skills;
  • Fraud & Digital business domain experience (preferrable);
  • Customer facing experience is a plus;
  • Knowledge of statistics or data visualization is a plus;
  • Knowledge of tree based algorithms (Random Forests, XGBoost, LGBM) is a plus;

The Customer Success Team is responsible for delivering our product to our clients. This includes education, configuration, solution development, and risk strategy to enable our clients to address their pain points. We collaborate with our clients to ensure they have the right solution, build out a strategy and training plan for them, and then support them through each phase of our client lifecycle. We grow at a fast clip and believe no challenge is too big or too small. Therefore, we have an open environment that encourages us to lean in, try new things, and discover our potential. Join Us!

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Numbers & Facts

LocationAtlanta, Georgia (
Remote
)
Websitehttps://careers.feedzai.com/all-jobs

Skills

  • Algorithmsunmatched
  • Apache Hadoopunmatched
  • Apache Sparkunmatched
  • Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
  • Bash Scriptingunmatched
  • Best Practicesunmatched
  • Big Dataunmatched
  • Business Skillsunmatched
  • Communication Skillsunmatched
  • Computer Scienceunmatched
  • Computer Securityunmatched
  • Consumer Protectionunmatched
  • Cross-Functionalunmatched
  • Customer Relationsunmatched
  • Customer Support/Serviceunmatched
  • Data Cleaningunmatched
  • Data Scienceunmatched
  • Data Visualizationunmatched
  • Develop and Maintain Customersunmatched
  • Electrical Engineeringunmatched
  • Financial Fraudunmatched
  • Javaunmatched
  • Machine Toolunmatched
  • Mathematicsunmatched
  • Money Launderingunmatched
  • Operating Systemsunmatched
  • Physicsunmatched
  • Process Improvementunmatched
  • Product Marketingunmatched
  • Project/Program Managementunmatched
  • Python Programming/Scripting Languageunmatched
  • Quality Managementunmatched
  • Riskunmatched
  • Risk Managementunmatched
  • Scala Programming Languageunmatched
  • Scripting (Scripting Languages)unmatched
  • Statisticsunmatched
  • Strategic Planningunmatched
  • Team Playerunmatched
  • Unix Shell Programmingunmatched
  • Writing Skillsunmatched

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