Position: Data Scientist Time Series Forecasting
Company: Autodoc
Experience required: 3y
Category: Data Science
English level: pre
Published: 2023-07-01T00:00:00+03:00

We love cars and everything related to them, and we work in e-commerce. In 2008, our team started the business with several dozen parts positions, and today we sell about 3.7 million products for 166 car brands. We are real friends with clients from 27 EU and EEA countries. As of 2020, our customer base has reached 5.3 million active B2C and B2B clients. We are dedicated to working, and so we expect our revenue to exceed €1.0 billion

We are looking for someone to help us improve our sales forecasting system within the e-commerce industry

We are particularly interested in external factors that affect sales of auto parts

Responsibilities:

- Forecasting of financial indicators in multiple countries with high turnover
- Time series data preprocessing, feature engineering, and data transformation to develop robust models.
- Investigate and analyze external factors that impact sales
- Explore the relationship between internal marketing activities and financial indicators
- Identify and analyze reasons for deviations between predicted and actual values.

Requirements:

- 3+ years of experience in data science and machine learning.
- Proven experience in Time Series Analysis and Forecasting
- Familiarity with Time Series Cross Validation and additional regressors
- Interpreting Results (promoting transparency instead of creating a black box)
- Proficiency in SQL
- Strong communication skills and ability to work collaboratively with technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Nice to have:

- Knowledge of e-commerce domain or econometrics
- Participation in DS competitions ( e.g., Kaggle, local competitions)
- Experience working with Facebook Prophet and Neural Prophet.
- Proficiency in developing neural networks, particularly for time series data.
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, or a related field.
- It would be interesting to hear about the failure stories of your projects and what you would change

What do we offer?

For your professional growth
- Only innovative projects and advanced technologies
- Complete freedom for bright ideas and bold decisions
- Work in the international team of professionals willing to share their experience
- Ability to switch to another project that is interesting for you
- Professional growth: free external and internal professional training - courses and certifications
- Paid business trips and payment for participation in conferences
- Paid corporate language classes (English, German, Polish)

For your convenience
- Work on your terms — you can work remotely and choose a flexible schedule
- 28 paid vacation days, 1 day off, national holidays, and unlimited sick leave
- Friendly team buildings, cool corporate events with
- Corporate wellness activities with colleagues
- Corporate gifts on the first working day, birthday, anniversary of work, birth of a child