Data Scientist

Since 2020, the company has expanded from listings into payments, shipping and seller financing.

Skiffmill HQ needs someone comfortable with both statistics and production code. The Risk team works directly with product and finance. You'll design experiments, build forecasts and explain the results. Fully remote. You can work from anywhere in South Africa. Monday to Friday, regular working hours, flexible start and finish.

Essential duties and responsibilities

• Develop time series forecasts with Prophet, statsmodels or gradient-boosted approaches
• Translate vague business questions into problems the data can actually answer
• Package reusable code instead of leaving it in one-off notebooks
• Review peers' analyses for statistical correctness

Who you are

• Comfort with Jupyter, VS Code or Databricks notebooks
• Strong Python (pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn) and SQL
• Solid grasp of statistical inference, regression and experimental design
• Familiarity with Git and working in shared codebases
• Data visualization in matplotlib, seaborn, Plotly or a BI tool

Why work with us

Rate: R66,000 - R79,000 a month

• Medical aid contribution
• Provident fund
• Data allowance
• Study assistance
• Group life cover
• 13th cheque

If you are shortlisted, we will reach out to set up a first call.

Start: Immediately.

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