Data Scientist
Wealthsimple, Canada

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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 3 million users who trust us with more than $30 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
Our Data Science team is responsible for enabling data-driven decision making and building data products at Wealthsimple. We are building a high quality and scalable state-of-the-art data warehouse that powers all decision making, leveraging machine learning and algorithms to help Wealthsimple build smarter financial products, and using decision science to understand the cause and effect of our business decisions.
Joining the Decision Science team, you will partner with product managers in Financial Operating Systems (FOS) and build the data foundation that streamlines new account creation and money movement, as well as helps our clients better understand their financial positions and investment results.In this role, you will have the opportunity to:

• Partner with our FOS team to work on large financial datasets on the backend
• Build robust, efficient, and integrated data models in cloud data warehouse that will be used as the source of truth for analytics across all the products in the organization
• Apply statistical techniques and run A/B tests to solve real life product problems and to inform product decisions and strategies
• Apply software engineering best practices like version control and continuous integration to the analytics code base; ensure data models are well tested, documented and maintained
• Translate business requirements into data models and analysis that will help stakeholders answer key business questions and inform strategic decisions
• Continuously look for the simplest, most effective way to approach challenges; Occam's razor is your friend
• Take ownership and ship it
• Get the best out of the team by leveraging their diverse educational backgrounds
• Work where you are (while our Canadian offices are located in Toronto, we are a remote-first workforce and you can join from anywhere in Canada!)

Skills we are looking for:

• Strong business acumen and product sense and ability to help drive strategic vision
• Excellent Python amp; SQL skills, 3+ years of experience working with popular Python libraries such as Pandas, scikit-learn, numpy and Jupyter
• Strong understanding of statistics: both frequentist and Bayesian approaches.
• Strong understanding of fundamental machine-learning algorithms: regression and decision trees.

We are looking for someone who:

• Is able to articulate their stance in a manner that effectively communicates why a solution could be the best way forward
• Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and effectively manages complexity and change
• Has exceptional communication skills and is able to communicate effectively to both technical and non-technical teams
• Is eager to teach and learn from your team. We value making each other successful!
• Is a lifelong learner. You’re constantly seeking and welcoming feedback to continue improving yourself and your craft

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!
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DEI StatementAt 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.
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