Data Scientist, Crypto
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Who we are
About Stripe
Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.
About the team
Stripe builds economic infrastructure for the internet. As the usage of cryptocurrency grows worldwide, it opens up new and exciting avenues for businesses and individuals to transact and create value. Many businesses and users already rely on and trust Stripe. This gives us a massive opportunity to be at the forefront of a new wave of innovation. Stripe was early in supporting the crypto community and helped businesses accept Bitcoin in 2014. Our users need better building blocks to accept payments, move funds, and exchange between fiat and crypto. By focusing on these problems, we aim to build faster, more trustworthy, and higher quality crypto-native experiences.
What you’ll do
Partner closely with Product, Engineering, UX Research, Marketing, Sales, Finance and Data Science teams to shape product strategy using rigorous scientific solutions
Apply statistical, machine learning and econometric models on large datasets to: i) measure results and outcomes of our current models and product strategies, ii) optimize user experience while minimizing fraud/risks
Design, conduct, and analyze experiments to quantify the impact of product and operation changes
Develop metrics to guide product development, and create dashboards for key performance indicators and deep dive to understand the drivers
Drive the collection of new data and the refinement of existing data sources
Who you are
We’re looking for a talented Data Scientist to partner with our brand new Crypto team and help us build and scale a suite of products to deliver a great crypto-native experience to our users. As a data scientist, you will get to employ the full data science toolbox in order to solve challenging problems in this exciting domain, from experiments and causal inference, to working with our partner teams to rigorously define and forecast metrics, and developing and deploying ML models to solve user needs. If this sounds exciting, we hope you will join us!
Minimum requirements
5+ years experience working with and analyzing large data sets to solve problems
A PhD or MS in a quantitative field (e.g., Economics, Statistics, Engineering, Natural Sciences, Operations Research)
Expert knowledge of a scientific computing language (such as R or Python) and SQL
Strong knowledge of statistics, machine learning and optimization
Demonstrated track record of identifying, scoping and leading complex data science projects with cross-functional partners and high business impact
Ability to communicate complex quantitative analysis in a clear, precise, and actionable manner
Preferred qualifications
Experience and passion for the cryptocurrency space
Experience with tools for working with “big data” in a distributed fashion (Spark, Hadoop, etc.)
Experience building ETL pipelines