Data Scientist

About us

Local news, classifieds and event listings for Hamburg make up the core of the site. Since 2015, the company has run a comparison site for car insurance, mortgages and credit cards. Support shifts are shared, so engineers spend a few hours a quarter answering customer tickets.

About the role

The operations team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. Buttonwood Marketplace needs someone comfortable with both statistics and production code. Our headquarters is in Hamburg, and about a third of the team works remotely from other countries. You will be employed through our employer-of-record partner in Albania, with a local contract and salary paid in local currency. Working hours overlap with Central European Time. You get a company laptop and a headset before you start.

What you'll do

• Segment customers and build churn and lifetime value models
• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM

What you bring

• 2+ years of applied data science experience
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases

Also helpful

• MLflow or another experiment tracking tool
• Spark for large datasets
• Causal inference beyond A/B testing

What we offer

Compensation: ALL 360,000 - ALL 480,000 monthly

• Public holidays observed per your country
• Flexible hours
• Two weeks of paid leave at year end

Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis.

Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Buttonwood Marketplace.