Data Scientist
Remote Portugal, Portugal
OLX – Data Science and Analytics /
Full-time /
Remote
WELCOME TO OLX
At OLX, we work together to build a more sustainable world through trade.
We make it safe, smart, and convenient to buy and sell cars, find housing, get jobs, buy and sell household goods, and more. Our colleagues around the world help to serve millions of people around the world every month, through its well-loved consumer brands including OLX, Otomoto, Property24.
Join OLX and see how far you can go.
JOIN OLX DATA SCIENCE TEAM
Join our Data Product Team and dive into the heart of innovation. A team that is at the forefront of developing cutting-edge solutions across a variety of projects, each designed to enhance our data science capabilities and ensure platform safety. You would be supporting the Data Science team with advanced analytics and statistical processing capabilities, accelerating the development and deployment of AI models, driving enhancements, implementing ad-hoc modifications, and defining SLAs to elevate the data science experience across platforms. Here you'll be part of a team dedicated to pushing the boundaries of machine learning and artificial intelligence. With a focus on collaboration, experimentation, and continuous improvement, your work will directly contribute to the advancement of our projects and the safety of our platforms.
You would be using Python and the AWS cloud. You will be exposed to key stakeholders, and have direct contact with internal customers. You will have the carte blanche to experiment and test things. And most importantly, you will also witness how your work impacts the day-to-day business of our customers.
What you will do in Data Science at OLX:
- You will help to build models, tinker around them to make them work, test them, and eventually deploy them to production. You will see your stuff in action and you will be able to measure the true impact of your models (less expected, yet a requirement)
- You will maintain strong relationships with stakeholders. This means asking a lot of questions to business people and translating their requirements into achievable projects. It also means collaborating with other teams, like infrastructure and data engineering to get things done in an elegant and timely manner.
- Partner with Engineering and Product to deliver solutions (customer-facing and platforms) to our customers (internal and end customers)
- Work with Product Analytics to track the KPIs of different ML use cases and measure the impact on our customers.
- Partner with the Experimentation team to integrate the KPIs and their proxies into the Experimentation (A/B testing) platform.
- You will work in multi-functional teams, in a diverse, multinational environment, filled with people from Portugal, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, and Uzbekistan.
- Most importantly you will have fun working with us :)
Who we're looking for:
- You are based in Portugal (mandatory)
- At least 2 to 3 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist
- Good knowledge of the best engineering practices
- Strong statistics background
- Experience with building data pipelines using tools like Spark and Airflow
- Experience with serving machine learning models at scale
- Strong engineering background: excellent knowledge of Python, exposure to other programming languages (Kotlin, Java, etc)
- Experience in using machine learning frameworks in production settings: Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow (or similar)
- Experience using cloud-based architectures for deploying machine learning solutions
- Proficient in English with excellent written and oral communication skills
Nice to have:
- Exposure to other programming languages in the past such as Kotlin, Java, Scala, etc
- Experience bringing models into production and serving models at scale
- Experience using AWS for deploying machine learning solutions
- Experience with building data pipelines using tools like Spark and Airflow
- Understanding of A/B testing and experimentation
- Exposure to MLOps tools
What we offer:
- Permanent contract
- Salary + annual bonus up to 15% of your annual gross salary
- Work with and impact all OLX websites
- Train and conference budget and free access to Udemy courses
- Health insurance and life insurance
- MacBook Pro or Windows Dell along with necessary accessories to make your work comfortable
- 100% remote work (and the possibility to work from our office in Lisboa)
Why join OLX?
At OLX, we invest in ourselves and each other to reach our full potential. We avoid bureaucracy and empower our teams to innovate; with opportunities, training, and leadership behaviors a key focus for all. Our commitment to inclusion ensures we listen to a diverse range of voices when making decisions. And, we combine the spirit and agility of a startup with our global scale and the backing of Prosus, one of the largest consumer internet groups in the world.
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at OLX
At OLX, we are committed to creating a diverse, inclusive, and authentic workplace. We strongly encourage people of all races, ethnicities, disabilities, ages, gender identities or expressions, sexual orientations, religions, backgrounds, and experiences to apply.
If you are excited about this role, and your past experiences do not align perfectly with every criteria asked for in the job description, we would still like you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this or other opportunities across the business, and we'd like to hear from you.
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