Lead Data Scientist

Fingerprint empowers developers to stop online fraud at the source.

We work on turning radical new ideas in the fraud detection space into reality. Our products are developer-focused and our clients range from solo developers to publicly traded companies. We are a globally dispersed, 100% remote company with a strong open-source focus. Our flagship open-source project is FingerprintJS (20K stars on GitHub).

We have raised $77M and are backed by Craft Ventures (previously invested in Tesla, Facebook, Airbnb ), Nexus Venture Partners (previously invested in Postman, Apollo.io, MinIO, Druva) and Uncorrelated Ventures (previously invested in Redis, Rollbar & Gradle).

We are seeking a Lead Data Scientist to join our innovative team. In this role, you will focus on improving the accuracy of the Fingerprint Pro Identification Service by applying advanced data science and machine learning techniques in a high-load real-time service setting.  

As a Lead Data Scientist, you will lead technical strategies, mentor seasoned engineers in challenging areas of machine learning, and contribute to fostering an engineering-focused, data-driven culture across the Fingerprint team. You will own data science projects from concept to deployment, ensuring they seamlessly integrate with our real-time identification platform.  

Types of Projects and Impact:  

• Develop data-driven algorithms for Fingerprint Pro Identification Service, applying ML techniques to process raw, noisy, and unlabeled data to extract insights about browsers and devices.  
• Lead the design and implementation of supervised, semi-supervised, and unsupervised learning approaches to improve our identification capabilities.  
• Mentor team members in machine learning, data science, and analytics, enhancing the team’s technical expertise.  
• Conduct exploratory data analysis to investigate ad-hoc questions and address anomalous data.  
• Design experiments and solutions for ML-related engineering challenges like real-time model inference and training pipeline automation.  
• Help build an engineering-focused, data-driven culture across the team by sharing tools and effective approaches to data science.  

Required Skills:  

• Experience:7+ years in Machine Learning, Data Science, and backend development.  
• Machine Learning and Data Science Expertise:
• Advanced foundations in ML and statistical methodologies.  
• Strong experience in supervised learning, including gradient boosting and handling high-cardinality categorical data.  
• Practical experience with semi-supervised and unsupervised learning techniques. 
• Proficiency in exploratory data analysis and creative problem-solving for dataset collection and performance estimation in the absence of labeled data.  

Software Engineering Skills:

• Strong expertise in real-time ML service development, including challenges like real-time inference and model-to-service integration.  
• Excellent coding skills with expertise in SQL and general software engineering tools (Git, CI/CD pipelines, IDEs, shell scripting).  
• Ability to create MVP real-time web services from ML models.  
• Fluent English for clear communication in a global, remote team.  

Nice to Have:  

• Academic background and a research mindset.  
• Backend development experience with GoLang.  
• Experience with analytical storage systems like Clickhouse, Snowflake, or BigQuery.  
• Familiarity with engineering practices for maintaining data transformations, including frameworks like dbt.  
• Hands-on experience with data visualization tools like Apache Superset, Tableau, or Looker.  

Technologies You Will Work With:  

• Backend and Data Science: GoLang, SQL, and advanced ML frameworks.  
• Data Processing/Analytics: ClickHouse, dbt.  
• Infrastructure: AWS.  

Offers vary depending on, but not limited to, relevant experience, education, certifications/licenses, skills, training, and market conditions. 

Due to regulatory and security reasons, there’s a small number of countries where we cannot have Fingerprint teammates based. Additionally, because Fingerprint is an all-remote company and people can join our workforce from almost any country, we do not sponsor visas. Fingerprint teammates need to be authorized to work from their home location.

We are dedicated to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone. We embrace and celebrate the unique experiences, perspectives and cultural backgrounds that each employee brings to our workplace. Fingerprint strives to foster an environment where our employees feel respected, valued and empowered, and our team members are at the forefront in helping us promote and sustain an inclusive workplace. We highly encourage people from underrepresented groups in tech to apply.

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