Data Scientist at Findhotel

Will you join us on a journey to disrupt the trillion-dollar travel industry? We are looking for the best and brightest who share our passion for travel, data, and product.
FindHotel believes travel is the one thing that opens minds to new ideas, cultures, and ways of thinking. Our mission is to get every traveller the best accommodation deal, worldwide. From adventure travel and backpacking to honeymoons and family vacations, we genuinely care that every traveller is able to make the best-informed accommodation choice, with the absolute best conditions, for every trip.
We are looking for Data Scientists (from mid level to senior) to join FindHotel and help us push our data-driven organisation to even higher levels. We are looking people with a strong background in Machine Learning, Statistics and Programming, and with proven experience applying Machine Learning to real business problems. You will be leading a variety of projects within our company to empower users find their ideal accommodation. 
 
What you will do:

Design, build and test data-driven services that use machine learning and statistics to make our platform as effective as possible: e.g by providing visitors the recommendations that are most relevant to them.
Help to improve our content mapping algorithm (record linkage/deduplication).
Contribute to our deal prediction/discount detection efforts.
Fine tune our hotel sorting algorithm by continuously trying/testing new methodologies and help us ingest more users, content and price-related data.
Ensure content sorting and selection for our platform (image/text quality assessment).
Perform real-time pricing and conversion optimisation at scale.

 
Who you are:

You have excellent Python and SQL skills.
You are interested in and willing to learn about the travel industry.
You have a solid mathematical background (from statistics to calculus).
You have the ability and interest to work with huge amounts of high-dimensional travel data.
You have experience with modern Python ML stack and concepts [gradient boosters, neural networks (NN) architectures, feature extraction, online/offline validation approaches].
You have at least 3 years of experience in productionizing complex pipelines (ML or any other quantitative development environment).
You have experience in building scalable algorithms, you have some knowledge about computational complexity and data structures.
Experience in any of the following problems is a plus: record linkage (image and text similarity), price prediction, named entity recognition/textual data normalisation, learning to rank, reinforcement learning.

 
Why join FindHotel now

We aim to help 10M customers book on FindHotel annually by 2023, up from 3M in the past 12 months. We do that using data, transparency, and industry leading features, and managed to overcome the corona crisis remarkably fast;
The company is evolving quickly to position itself among the global leaders in the travel industry. It is an exceptional journey to make: challenging, exciting, and a marvel to be part of;
We place huge importance on rewarding our employees for the value they generate by giving Stock Appreciation Rights to all employees.

Do you want to know if FindHotel is the right place for you? Find out by reading about the attitude that thrives at FindHotel.
 
What we offer:

Plenty of chances to learn and grow within an open, diverse culture which promotes knowledge sharing, trust and transparency;
A great compensation package + perks and benefits (including significant stock appreciation rights);
Flexible time off (take as many holidays as you need) and a chance to work remotely;
You will be part of a highly international team that enjoys working, eating and playing together in one of the best office locations in Amsterdam;
We value good food and offer catered lunches from various cuisines, great coffee, ice-cream in the fridge and the occasional barbecue in our garden;
We enjoy getting together to celebrate our wins with company events in Amsterdam and abroad;
A budget for your dream home office.

Access to free mental health support via OpenUp.


 
We encourage people from all ethnic groups, genders, sexuality, ages and abilities to apply. If this job description resonates with you, we want to hear from you!
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