(Senior) Data Scientist (m/f/x) onsite or remote (in Germany or Austria)

Company Description

Scalable Capital is a leading digital investment platform in Europe.
Since our foundation in 2014, we pursue the mission to empower everyone to become an investor. With the Scalable Broker, and our digital wealth management service Scalable Wealth as well as our solutions for B2B partners we offer easy and cost efficient investing for everyone.
Today, Scalable Capital is a FinTech unicorn – we have more than 600,000 customers and more than 17 billion Euros on our platform.

Visit our finance blog or check out our Social Media channels to find out what our Expert Teams have to say.

Our Company Values guide us every day in how we work and collaborate. To learn more about them, you can find our values here (English).

Job Description

As a Data Scientist at Scalable Capital you will contribute significantly to generating tremendous business value through modern machine learning technologies. You will identify and work on use cases together with stakeholders throughout the company, e.g., Marketing, Client Support or Compliance. If you are a professional in data science with business understanding and keen on working in the fast paced environment of a FinTech company, this position in our growing Data Department is for you! 

Responsibilities:

• Develop and implement data solutions of significant business value by utilising both advanced statistical or machine learning models and classical, pragmatic descriptive solutions
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams from your tribe but also product, engineering, and marketing teams, to identify new opportunities for data-driven innovation
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and marketing teams, to identify new opportunities for data-driven innovation
• Take proactive responsibility for end-to-end implementation (brainstorming and idea generation, implementation, testing, deployment, maintenance)
• Drive continuous improvements and optimization of data science models and pipelines
• Work on a modern cloud (AWS) stack and contribute to decisions on which technology to use
• Communicate findings and advanced analytics concepts to stakeholders in a clear and effective manner
• Work in an ego-free environment and be part of a motivated, fast-paced, and result-driven agile team with highly ambitious and intelligent people in our growing data analytics department
• Stay up to date with the latest industry developments and technologies

Qualifications

• University degree in a data science related field, e.g., computer science, mathematics, statistics, or natural sciences and relevant working experience
• Data-driven mindset and good with numbers whilst being able to explain complex concepts in simple terms
• Very good programming skills in Python
• Confident in programming with modern data science and visualisation libraries such as scikit-learn, pytorch, transformers, bayesian statistics (eg., lightweight mmm or pymc3), plotly, matplotlib, …
• Good knowledge of modern supervised and unsupervised machine learning algorithms (e.g., tree-base models, deep learning, natural language processing, recommender systems, XAI) but also classical statistical models like regression techniques
• Experience with cloud services (e.g., AWS), MLOps, and version control
• Strong project management and organisational skills paired with excellent problem solving skills and hands on mentality
• Strong commitment to teamwork and resilience in a creative and constantly changing environment
• Eager to extend your knowledge on modern data science algorithms and technologies continuously
• Sense of humour
• Familiarity with AWS landscape: SageMaker, Lambda, API Gateway, ECS is a plus
• Experience with marketing mix modelling is a plus
• Interest in financial services and markets is a plus

Additional Information

• Be part of one of the fastest-growing and most visible Fintech startups in Europe, creating innovative services that have a substantial impact on the lives of our customers
• Work with an international, diverse, inclusive, and ever-growing team that loves creating the best products for our clients
• Enjoy an office in a great location in the middle of Munich, Berlin Mitte or Vienna (if eligible for the job)
• Be productive with the latest hardware and tools
• Learn and grow by joining our in-house knowledge sharing sessions and spending your individual Education Budget 
• Learn and experience German culture first hand by joining our free German language classes
• (International) relocation support
• Enjoy your free time with 30 paid vacation days and take the opportunity to work from abroad
• Benefit from an attractive compensation package and from the company pension scheme
• Say goodbye to order commissions and say hello to your complimentary subscription of Scalable Capital’s PRIME+ Broker