Sr. Data Scientist - Algorithms (Based in Dubai)

Company Description

Since launching in Kuwait in 2004, talabat, the leading on-demand food and Q-commerce app for everyday deliveries, has been offering convenience and reliability to its customers. talabat’s local roots run deep, offering a real understanding of the needs of the communities we serve in eight countries across the region.
 

We harness innovative technology and knowledge to simplify everyday life for our customers, optimize operations for our restaurants and local shops, and provide our riders with reliable earning opportunities daily.

Here at talabat, we are building a high performance culture through engaged workforce and growing talent density. We're all about keeping it real and making a difference. Our 6,000+ strong talabaty are on an awesome mission to spread positive vibes. We are proud to be a multi great place to work award winner.

Job Description

Role Summary

As the leading delivery company in the region, we have a great responsibility and opportunity to impact the lives of millions of customers, restaurant partners, and riders. To realize our potential, we need to advance our platform to become much more intelligent in how it understands and serves our users.

As a senior data scientist on the algorithms track, your mission will be to improve the quality of the decisions made across product and business via relevant, reliable, and actionable data. You will own a particular domain across product and business and will work closely with the corresponding product and business managers and are part of a talented team of data scientists and data engineers. You will own the entire data value chain including logging, data modeling, building machine learning and/or advanced analytics solutions, analysis, reporting, and experimentation.

You will be part of a specialized team that keeps a pulse on the evolving industry landscape, helping us anticipate trends through strategic insights, and maintain our leadership in the MENA region in the food delivery space.

What's On Your Plate?

Leveraging ambiguous business problems as opportunities to drive objective criteria using data.

Solving complex business problems using the simplest most appropriate Algorithms to deliver business value.

Designing and implementing effective and impactful machine learning systems in production.

Developing a deep understanding of the product experiences and business processes that make up your area of focus.

Developing a deep familiarity with the source data and its generating systems through documentation, interacting with the engineering teams, and systematic data profiling.

Contributing heavily to the design and maintenance of the data models that allow us to measure performance and comprehend performance drivers for your area of focus.

Working closely with product and business teams to identify important questions that can be answered effectively with data.

Delivering well-formed, relevant, reliable, and actionable insights and recommendations to support data-driven decision-making through deep analysis and automated reports.

Designing, planning, and analyzing experiments (A/B and multivariate tests) occasionally.

Supporting product and business managers with KPI design and goal setting.

Mentoring other data scientists in their growth journeys.

Contributing to improving our ways of work, our tooling, and our internal training programs.

Qualifications

What Did We Order?

Technical Experience

Experience in machine learning, deep learning, recommendation systems, pattern recognition, data mining and artificial intelligence.

Deep knowledge and experience in ML algorithms and frameworks (e.g. Scikit-learn, XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, SVMs, Keras, TensorFlow, PyTorch ...).

Excellent SQL.

Competence with reproducible data analysis using Python or R.

Familiarity with data modeling and dimensional design. (Experience with DBT is a plus)

Strong command over the entire data lifecycle including; problem formulation, data auditing, rigorous analysis, interpretation, recommendations, and presentation.

Familiarity with different types of analysis including; descriptive, exploratory, inferential, causal, and predictive analysis.

Deep understanding of the various experiment design and analysis workflows and the corresponding statistical techniques.

Familiarity with product data (impressions, events, ..) and product health measurement (conversion, engagement, retention, ..).

Familiarity with BigQuery and the Google Cloud Platform is a plus.

Data engineering and data pipeline development experience (e.g. via Airflow) is a plus.

Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, technology, or similar fields. A postgraduate degree is a plus but not required.

3+ years of overall experience working in data science or machine learning.

Experience doing data science in an online consumer product setting is a plus.

A good problem solver with a ‘figure it out’ growth mindset.

An excellent collaborator.

An excellent communicator.

A strong sense of ownership and accountability.

A ‘keep it simple’ approach to #makeithappen.