Data Scientist - FACT DSE

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Wealthsimple is on a mission to help everyone achieve financial freedom by reimagining what it means to manage your money. Using smart technology we take financial services that are often confusing opaque and expensive and make them transparent and low-cost for everyone. We’re the largest fintech company in Canada with over 4 million users who trust us with more than $50 billion in assets.

Our teams ship often and make an impact with groundbreaking ideas. We're looking for talented people who keep it simple and value collaboration and humility as we continue to create inclusive and high-performing teams where people can be inspired to do their best work.

About the team:

The FACT (Fraud AML and CrediT) Data Science & Engineering team consists of data scientists and analytics developers with diverse educational backgrounds. The team is responsible for delivering advanced analytics to support data-driven risk management and financial valuations at Wealthsimple. The team is staffed with seasoned data experts and well supported by product managers software developers and risk strategists.

We are hiring a data scientist for the FACT DSE team. You will be responsible for the design and execution of product experiments and building robust machine learning pipelines that drive key product decisions at Wealthsimple. A successful data scientist is able to blend expertise in experimental design predictive modelling and software engineering while effectively communicating with stakeholders.

What you will do:

• Design and execute product experiments to help improve Wealthsimple’s client experience

• Productionize and make continuous improvements to some of Wealthsimple’s flagship machine learning models

• Build a repository of machine learning features to support a variety of advanced analytics tasks across the business

• Translate experimental results into products and solutions

• Ensure models are well tested documented and maintained

• Believe that simple is better Occam's razor is your friend

• Take ownership and ship it; release incrementally and iteratively

• Teach and learn from your teammates. We value making others successful

Who you are:

• Experience in complex experimental design (A/B tests factorial design)

• Experience in building end-to-end productionized machine learning pipelines

• Strong technical skills in coding (SQL & Python) and statistical methods

• Comfortable with software engineering best practices such as unit testing and version control

• Experience with machine learning feature engineering

• Results-driven: keeping things as simple as possible to achieve the product goals

• Curiosity: willing to dive deep into product strategies and business context

• Able to build and maintain multi-functional relationships with various teams across the business

• Experience working in the risk management domain is a plus

Why Wealthsimple?

🤑 Competitive salary with top-tier health benefits and life insurance

📈 Retirement savings matching plan using Wealthsimple Work

🌴 20 vacation days per year and unlimited sick and mental health days

📚 Up to $1500 per year towards wellness and professional development budgets respectively

🛫 90 days away program: Employees can work internationally in eligible countries for up to 90 days per calendar year

🌎 A wide variety of peer and company-led Employee Resource Groups (ie. Rainbow Women of Wealthsimple Black @ WS)

💖 Company-wide wellness days off scheduled throughout the year

We’re a remote-first team with over 1000 employees coast to coast in North America. Be a part of our Canadian success story and help shape the financial future of millions — join us!

Read our Culture Manual and learn more about how we work.

DEI Statement

At Wealthsimple we are building products for a diverse world and we need a diverse team to do that successfully. We strongly encourage applications from everyone regardless of race religion colour national origin gender sexual orientation age marital status or disability status.

Accessibility Statement

Wealthsimple provides an accessible candidate experience. If you need any accommodations or adjustments throughout the interview process and beyond please let us know and we will work with you to provide the necessary support and make reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation. We are continuously working to improve our accessibility practices and welcome any feedback or suggestions on how we can better accommodate candidates with accessibility needs.