Data Scientist at Currencycloud

About Currencycloud

Currencycloud is somewhere where innovative thinking and the power of technology know no limits. We know that the success of the business depends on the people who keep it moving, which is why we are looking for exceptional talent to join our international payments revolution. 

We are an open & collaborative Fintech unicorn that lives and breathes our company values: 
Be Human, Better Together and Own it. 

About this role...

As a data scientist, you will be working within a growing team, consisting of data engineers, analysts, and other data scientists. The role of this team is to provide a stable data management platform to help the other departments gain actionable insights from their data.

The main responsibilities include building prototype models for investigation projects, communicating any findings with stakeholders in an iterative/agile workflow, and contributing to any production workflow code base. 

Our data stack and infrastructure is built upon Snowflake and the AWS cloud. For our day-to-day workflow, we are making frequent use of SQL queries, and the scientific stack of libraries in the Python language.


What you'll get to do?

Contributing to project development ideas - this is a particularly important aspect of the job; you will be expected to deliver creative ideas to the company, and in return, your contributions will be considered and given credit
Collaborate with other team members in an Agile workflow: Daily stand-ups and wrap-ups, sprint planning and refinement and writing stories and epics
Performing data integrity checks and data cleaning of raw datasets
Carrying out exploratory data analysis (EDA) of these datasets
Writing prototype models in an interactive development environment (Jupyter) for presentation to colleagues, and for iterative development
Contributing to project codebases
Version control with Git
Writing robust and tested code
Reviewing pull requests from colleagues



What skills and experience you'll need?

Essential:
Proficiency with Python, including libraries such as numpy, pandas, matplotlib/seaborn, jupyterlab/notebooks
SQL, any flavour
Knowledge of software design principles including version control wth Git / Github and writing Unit tests

Building machine learning models and pipelines such as:
scikit-learn with Python 
hyper-parameter tuning and cross-validuation 
Interpreting the outputs and findings of the models, and communicating these results to colleagues and stakeholders
Supervised learning and time series forecasting
Unsupervised learning for data exploration and clustering/segmentation analysis

Desirable, but not essential
Experience of writing APIs: eg Flask/FastAPI
Experience with dashboard development: eg Plotly Dash
Experience with Big Data processing in Spark/PySpark
Experience with other languages used in data management - Java/Scala
Experience with deep learning frameworks: Tensorflow/PyTorch/FastAI
Experience with deploying model pipelines into a production environment
Experience with model lifecycle management: eg mlflow (or alternatives)



Why Currencycloud?

We are a remote-first company; whichever location you’re contracted to, we leave it up to you and your manager to agree on how often you come into the office. To make things easier we offer an allowance so you can create your own working space at home because we REALLY mean it when we say remote first.

Your health and well-being are of paramount importance to us, and so our jampacked employee benefits reflect this! 

We offer a competitive salary, an individual learning and development budget, a pension or 401K contribution, mental health days and comprehensive health care that includes annual optical and dental allowances, access to mental health support and a monthly allowance that you can spend on anything health or wellness related! 

At the moment we are unable to consider applicants living outside of our entities and we are unable to provide visa sponsorship. 

We aren’t currently looking for additional Recruiter support on this role and won’t be accepting any unsolicited CVs