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Job Title:Data Scientist (Mid/Senior)

Salary:£85-110k + very generous equity (of the same value as your salary!)

Location:Shoreditch (2 office days/week)

Industry:FinTech / Payments


Having raised over £7m at seed stage, this FinTech company is shaking up the payments space with their innovative real-time price comparison solutions, making card payments a lot fairer and cheaper for smaller businesses and their customers


With a host of very impressive investors backing this venture, and working in collaboration with the world's largest players in payments, this company is causing the biggest change to how businesses access card payments in over two decades.


As the company is gearing up for Series A funding next year, they're looking to set up a Data Science team to leverage a vast amount of data they're collecting from their clients on daily basis and turn this into valuable insights and analytics.


This will be the 1st/founding Data Scientist in the company, with a 2nd hire in this team budgeted for early 2025, and a possible further growth later in the year as the company expands.


✅ Must have requirements:

  • Python
  • REST APIs
  • SQL
  • PostgreSQL
  • Cloud infrastructure - AWS is highly desirable, but GCP and Azure backgrounds are also ok
  • Experience working in a small, fast-growing start-up - ideally a FinTech


Bonus points:

  • Experience with TypeScript, R and React
  • Experience with TensorFlow or other ML libraries
  • Strong academic background


Please note: unfortunately, this roledoes notoffer VISA sponsorship.

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