Senior Data Scientist

About us:

Two developers, a designer and a support lead make up most of the company, so everyone touches the product. We are a small, self-funded team building a booking app for independent salons and tattoo studios. Founded in 2022, we now have 17 employees. On-call rotates weekly and pays a flat stipend whether or not the pager goes off.

About the role:

Looking for a Senior Data Scientist who wants to stay somewhere for a while. Applied data science role. We care more about whether your model gets used than about its AUC on a holdout set. Employment is through our payroll partner in India. Salary is paid monthly in Indian rupees. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time. Please make sure you have a quiet place to work and a solid internet connection.

What you'll work on:

• Present findings to product, marketing and finance leaders with clear recommendations
• Design and analyse A/B tests, including power calculations and guardrail metrics
• Partner with data engineering on feature tables and data quality
• Work with ML engineers to move models into production and monitor drift
• Build predictive models in Python using scikit-learn, XGBoost or LightGBM

What you bring:

• 5+ years of applied data science experience
• Ability to communicate uncertainty and tradeoffs to non-technical audiences
• Experience building and validating machine learning models on real business data

What we offer:

Salary: ₹32-36 LPA

• Paid sick days
• Monthly internet allowance
• Annual team retreat
• Wellness allowance
• Public holidays observed per your country
• Health insurance through our employer-of-record partner

Candidates must be eligible to work in India.

Start: Immediately.

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