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Senior Data Scientist – Risk

Data ScientistData ScientistFull TimeRemoteSeniorTeam 51-200Since 2018H1B No SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

Canada

Posted

19 days ago

Salary

$130K - $160K / year

Seniority

Senior

Bachelor Degree5 yrs expEnglishCloudPythonSQL

Job Description

Senior Data Scientist – Risk

Shakepay

• Partner with engineering to define the architecture and technical strategy for internal risk systems and tooling. • Partner with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations to define risk metrics, success criteria, and decision frameworks. • Analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products. • Build and maintain reporting that tracks fraud loss, false positives, customer friction, operational efficiency, and control performance. • Help design and architect the data, instrumentation, and decisioning systems that power risk operations and fraud prevention workflows. • Evaluate and iterate on risk rules and controls using rigorous analysis. • Apply statistical methods and selective ML techniques where they materially improve decision quality, operational efficiency, or signal detection. • Conduct deep-dive investigations into incidents, trends, and emerging threats. • Communicate insights clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders • Help establish data standards, analytical methods, and decision-making practices within the Risk team

Job Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Decision Science or in a similar analytical role
  • Experience with fraud, risk, trust and safety, AML, or compliance analytics.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience performing deep analytical work and ML techniques related to regression, classification, experiment design, causal inference, or decision analysis.
  • Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect analytical work to customer outcomes, risk outcomes, and company priorities.
  • Experience working with modern cloud data warehouses and tooling (i.e Snowflake, dbt, etc).
  • Outstanding communication skills and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations.
  • Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong sense of ownership and ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
  • Experience partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions.
  • Good judgment when tailoring the analytical toolkit to the problem at hand.
  • Interest in Bitcoin and familiarity with fintech, payments, crypto, or other regulated industries.

Benefits

  • Be an owner - Every employee has stock options as part of their total compensation
  • Reach your goals - Yearly salary assessments
  • Health & wellness : Access to comprehensive health and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
  • Remote-friendly: Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our office spaces in Montreal and Toronto.
  • Level Up: A $2,000 annual budget for courses, certifications, and training to support your career growth.
  • Time off: 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use all your vacation, we give you a $1,000 bonus.
  • Parental leave: Enjoy a parental leave top up to 100% of your salary for 18 weeks.
  • Have fun together: quarterly team-specific or company-wide offsite to connect with each other

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