Senior Data Scientist

Tink was founded in 2012, and a decade later became part of Visa in 2022. Tink was created with the aim of changing the banking industry for the better. We have built Europe’s most robust open banking platform - with the broadest, deepest connectivity and powerful services that create value out of the financial data. We offer the tools that allow anyone - from big banks and fintechs to startups - to build the future of financial services across Europe.

What you will do:

You will together with your team work on ML-based solutions that enrich financial transaction data, transforming it into highly valuable information. Being a cross-functional team we own our products end to end including data pipelines, feature engineering, model development, productionizing the model, and all backend services and part of the frontend needed to serve our customers.

Some of the challenges the Risk Decisioning Product team is working on are:

Transaction categorization (classification, NLP)

Credit risk/purchase power assessment

Behavior prediction, time series prediction

Since the team already counts on data and machine learning engineering skills you’ll contribute to the team mainly with your analytical, statistical, and model development abilities that stem from your experience with Credit Decisioning. However, you will also work with an experienced engineering team to make data and model pipelines and put models into production owning the full data/predictive lifecycle.

What we offer you

You will be working in a team of skilled and highly collaborative data scientists and backend engineers

You will have the chance to be at the beginning of the journey and part of building something from scratch

You will be a part of one of the fastest growing areas at Tink

We believe in autonomy so the team has ample freedom to make technical decisions to make their products great and run flawlessly in production

You will have the freedom to explore with large amounts of already existing data, raw as well as annotated, and drive the gathering of new data that may be needed to achieve our goals

What we are looking for

We believe that you’re a great fit for this position if you’re passionate about data science and statistical analysis and making a significant improvement in people’s finances and how underwriters conduct their decisioning. We see that you have:

Knowledge of machine learning and statistics

Experience in credit risk modeling and underwriting/decisioning

Strong communication skills to reason and connect findings to business

Interest in our clients and client interactions

Experience designing, running and evaluating experiments centered around feature engineering for predictive analysis

SQL and programming skills in Python

We welcome all kinds of personalities here at Tink. What we do think is important is your values. If you feel that our values match yours - you'll probably feel right at home with us.

Challenging - We are here to challenge the industry as well as ourselves

Exceptional - We always strive to be the best version of ourselves

Sincere - We are true in our actions and say what we believe in

Responsible - We step up, take initiatives and make things happen

Friendly - We are in this together, we are one team

Who we are at Tink

We are a company of developers and engineers - it’s in our DNA to imagine, build and iterate. We were founded with a vision of transforming an industry that lacked competition and momentum. And we have built a company of passionate over-achievers who all believe there is always a better way of doing things.

People from all over Europe - and the world - have joined us on our mission to build the biggest and best open banking platform in Europe.

We're looking forward to your application!