Data Scientist I

Role

As a Data Scientist I at ProcessOut, you will be instrumental in driving value by maximizing merchant payment performance while minimizing operational cost. You will own the full data science lifecycle, delivering highly‑performant, production‑ready solutions that handle millions of daily transactions.

Responsibilities

• Deeply understand merchant business models and KPIs to identify opportunities for technical and algorithmic improvement. Leverage decomposition methods and supervised modeling to understand complex data relationships and create new features that exploit feature interactions.
• Deliver robust, fully‑fleshed services, not just Proofs of Concept. Write well‑documented, clear, and concise code with consideration for code structure and future adaptation.
• Use insights from supporting merchants to continually challenge and enhance the tools you build, maximizing their self‑serve capabilities and business and payment knowledge.
• Define and expose KPIs that accurately measure the team's direction and ensure alignment with business objectives. Communicate work, hypotheses, and strategic impact clearly to both technical and non‑technical audiences.
• Proactively dive into complex payments documentation and technical specifications to find and validate new possibilities for optimization and exploration.

Qualifications

• Hands‑on software engineering experience, including application of data algorithms.
• Experience with a wide variety of supervised ML algorithms, including advanced techniques like multi‑arm bandits. Custom loss functions or evaluation frameworks to better reflect specific business problems is a plus.
• Strong practical knowledge of data transformation, including proficiency with a wide variety of data munging techniques (e.g., groupbys, merging tables).
• Ability to analyze large datasets to understand complex relationships, identify outliers, and use modeling techniques to derive additional insights.
• Proven ability to own subjects across multiple areas of the business, ensuring technical success directly translates into tangible business value and revenue growth.
• Proven ability to manage and coordinate complex projects, particularly those involving R&D with clear business outcomes.
• Fluent verbal and written communication in English and French, with the ability to tune communication for technical and non‑technical stakeholders.

Bonus Points

• Direct experience in the Online Payments industry
• Golang knowledge