Senior Data Scientist Product Platform at Wealthsimple

Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom, no matter who they are or how much they have. Using smart technology, Wealthsimple takes financial services that are often confusing, opaque and expensive and makes them simple, transparent, and low-cost. We're the company behind some of Canada's leading digital financial products, and are growing faster than ever.

Our team is reimagining what it means to manage your money. Smart, high-performing team members will challenge you to learn and grow every day. We value great work and great ideas — not ego. We're looking for talented people who love a fast-paced environment, and want to ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. 

We’re a remote-first team and output is more important than face time, so where you choose to work is up to you — as long as you have internet access, you can work from anywhere in Canada. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!  Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

At Wealthsimple, we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, or disability status. Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond, please let us know.

About the team

The Data Science & Engineering (DSE) team consists of data scientists and software engineers with diverse educational backgrounds such as math, operations research, economics, computer science, engineering and business. The team is responsible for enabling data-driven decision making and building data products at Wealthsimple. We achieve these goals by:

Building a high quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision making
Leveraging machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smarter financial products
Using decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions

About the roles

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist who has strong foundations in data modelling, statistics and product analytics to work with the Product Platform team. As Wealthsimple continues to scale, our ability to enable customers to transfer assets seamlessly, understand financial data, and protect against fraud is critical. The platform organization is responsible for building the services that power all of the Wealthsimple products. These core services are shared across the platform with the goal of improving the speed at which we scale and launch new products and continue to improve our current offerings.

As a Senior Data Scientist working with the Product Platform team, some of your projects will include, but not limited to: modelling verification data, drive automation, and incorporate intelligence into existing manual bank and ID verification processes by employing OCR, and optimize the bank verification process by identifying smarter ways of routing bank linking volume between third party data services such as Flinks/Plaid.

In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

Build and maintain new data models that are accurate and reliable
Design, define, and implement metrics and dimensions to enable analysis and predictive modelling
Partner with Product and Engineering teams to solve impactful problems 
Think outside the box and design experiments to test hypotheses
Build/maintain reports, dashboards, and metrics to monitor the performance of our products
Help build and lead a great data science team to deliver world-class products
Get the best out of the team by leveraging their diverse educational backgrounds
Teach and learn from their teammates. We value making others successful

Skills we are looking for:

Excellent Python & SQL skills.
Strong understanding of statistics: both frequentist and Bayesian approaches
Experience with applied statistics or experimentation (i.e. A/B testing) in an industry setting
Strong understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression and decision trees
First hand experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikt-learn, numpy and Jupyter
Excellent communicator who is able to present results and analysis to senior leadership
Experience in managing team members in a formal or informal capacity
It’s a bonus if you have hands-on experience with Apache Airflow, and a BI tool like Periscope, Mode Analytics or Tableau