Data Science Specialist at Ebanx

EBANX is a global fintech founded in 2012 with a mission to be the leading payments partner in rising markets. With its own technology and infrastructure, combined with in-depth knowledge of the Latin American market, EBANX allows these companies to connect to hundreds of payment methods in different countries in the region. And it goes further, creating results for businesses and simple shopping experiences for consumers.
From the beginning of our journey, we have an important mission: to give access. And this is not just about our products and services, but it goes through everything we are and do. We believe that it is only possible to innovate with diversity, so we cherish differences in gender, race, nationality, disability, sexual orientation, religion and age. Plurality is what makes our Big Dream possible.
We are called ebankers and we are changing the way people buy, connect, and live globally. Let's make history together?
As a Data Scientist Specialist your mission will be to build and deploy machine learning models to serve multiple business units of the company.
You will also be responsible for:

Build and maintain machine learning models that are relevant to the payments industry (e.g. real-time transactional model, anomaly detection, routing optimization and churn prediction).
Work closely with devs and core business areas (fraud prevention, finance, commercial, products and marketing) to define business problems and create solutions leveraging our data.
Be able to propose new projects, gain stakeholder buy-in, calculate business value, be a cooperative team player and develop strong relationships with colleagues.
Explain and solve complex problems in straightforward terms.
Work directly with the data engineering team to create data pipelines and transformations necessary to be consumed by models.
Ad-hoc exploratory analysis and experiments.
Promote the use of data as the main driver for decision making.

Main requirements for this position:

Should be proficient at writing complex codes with languages like: Python, Pyspark and SQL.
Relevant work experience working with core compute and storage cloud services (preferably AWS).
Previous experience designing and building supervised ML models using Random Forests, Boosting, SVM or deep learning (some experience with at least one of the main libraries/frameworks like XGBoost, Sklearn and Tensorflow).
Understand the trade off and implementation differences between batch vs streaming.
Work with transactional DBs and analytical tools like Redshift, BigQuery and Athena.
Good knowledge of development tools like git, bash and containers.

What else would we like to see? 

Experience in design solutions based on AWS services and tools (Lambda, Kinesis Data Stream, Kinesis Data Firehose, S3, Dynamo, OpenSearch, EMR, Sagemaker, ElastiCache), carefully read the docs, implement the entire architecture you designed with the support of your peers, and document it. 
Some experience with visualization tools (e.g. Tableau, Qlik or Looker).
Previous experience working in a startup environment.

EBANX offers:

A challenging environment, with opportunities to grow;
Casual office and flexible dress code;
Spanish, English and Portuguese classes;
WAVES - Program of goals and results (variable compensation);
EBANX Play - Wellness (Gympass, e-Sports, SESC );
Semi flexible hours (8 hours a day - Monday to Friday);
Meal Allowance;
Transportation voucher (if needed);
EBANX Education: scholarship;
EBANX Skills: budget for workshops and courses;
EBANX Flexible: monthly Day Off from February to November, birthday Day Off and Rest up Month - one month of paid leave every three years of work anniversary.
EBANX Family: Daycare assistance, extended leave for caregivers and support program for children and pregnant women;
EBANX Health: Health and Dental Insurance, with subsidy for dependents, and medicine subsidy for ebankers;
Life Insurance: Life Insurance 100% paid by EBANX
Hello ebanker: psychology, finance and legal orientation.
Blue Club: Exclusive discount for ebankers in bakeries, restaurants, courses, electronics store and more!

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