Data Scientist II

About the role

The Trust Machine Learning team protects Remitly's customers by developing intelligent systems that prevent fraud. These systems assess the risk of every transaction and customer interaction, while minimizing the impact on user experience and customer trust. As an embedded data scientist, you will understand fraud trends, uncover new fraud signals, and use data to optimize our risk decision policies. You Will: Discover and deliver fraud signals that improve model performance to target and prevent first-party fraud, consumer fraud, and unwanted activity Manage and assess risk decision policies that improve automated fraud prevention outcomes, balancing risks with operational and customer impacts Design metrics and dashboards that communicate fraud model efficacy to business partners Design and conduct A/B experiments to assess and understand the impact of fraud decision policy changes Partner with machine learning engineers to ensure features are well-integrated and optimized for production models You Have: 3 or more years of experience using SQL and Python or R for exploratory data analysis, statistical analysis, and machine learning Proficiency creating dashboards and visualizations using tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Mode, or similar technology Experience designing, running, and analyzing experiments to inform business strategy A degree in data science, statistics, mathematics, operations research, or related field (or equivalent experience) Compensation Details. The starting base salary range for this position is $128,000-$144,000. In Canada, Remitly employees are shareholders in our Company and equity is part of our total compensation plan. Your recruiter can share more information about medical benefits offered, as well as other financial benefits and total compensation components offered with this role.