Who you are

• 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist, Decision Science or in a similar analytical role
• Experience with fraud, risk, trust and safety, AML, or compliance analytics
• Strong proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience performing deep analytical work and ML techniques related to regression, classification, experiment design, causal inference, or decision analysis
• Strong product and business judgment, with the ability to connect analytical work to customer outcomes, risk outcomes, and company priorities
• Experience working with modern cloud data warehouses and tooling (i.e Snowflake, dbt, etc)
• Outstanding communication skills and the ability to translate complex analysis into clear business recommendations
• Proven ability to work in ambiguous, fast-moving environments
• Strong sense of ownership and ability to challenge assumptions constructively
• Experience partnering closely with cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions
• Good judgment when tailoring the analytical toolkit to the problem at hand
• Interest in Bitcoin and familiarity with fintech, payments, crypto, or other regulated industries

What the job involves

• We’re looking for a Senior Data Scientist to help define how Shakepay measures, understands, and manages risk
• This role is analytics-first, with selective use of machine learning where it meaningfully improves understanding or decision quality. You’ll work closely with Risk Engineering and business partners to surface insights, guide prioritization, and evaluate the impact of risk controls
• We are open to hiring at either the Senior or Staff level, depending on the candidate’s depth of experience, scope of impact, and ability to lead through ambiguity
• Partner with engineering to define the architecture and technical strategy for internal risk systems and tooling
• Partner with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations to define risk metrics, success criteria, and decision frameworks
• Analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products
• Build and maintain reporting that tracks fraud loss, false positives, customer friction, operational efficiency, and control performance
• Help design and architect the data, instrumentation, and decisioning systems that power risk operations and fraud prevention workflows
• Evaluate and iterate on risk rules and controls using rigorous analysis
• Apply statistical methods and selective ML techniques where they materially improve decision quality, operational efficiency, or signal detection
• Conduct deep-dive investigations into incidents, trends, and emerging threats
• Communicate insights clearly and persuasively to senior stakeholders
• Help establish data standards, analytical methods, and decision-making practices within the Risk team
• What success looks like in the first 3-6 months
• Establish a clear baseline for the core risk metrics we use to understand fraud loss, scam exposure, false positives, customer friction, and operational efficiency
• Define the measurement approach for key risk controls, including how we evaluate impact, tradeoffs, and unintended consequences
• Improve the quality, consistency, and discoverability of the data needed to analyze risk decisions and customer outcomes
• Deliver high-leverage investigations that identify concrete opportunities to reduce risk or improve customer experience
• Create a repeatable rhythm for turning risk analysis into prioritization, product decisions, operational changes, and engineering work
• How scope changes by level;
• Senior candidates should be ready to own complex risk analyses end to end, partner closely with engineering and business teams, improve the data foundations required for risk decisioning, and influence decisions through clear analytical judgment
• Staff candidates should be ready to take on a broader leadership role within the risk function. This includes setting analytical direction, shaping risk systems and decisioning frameworks, creating shared language and metrics across ambiguous problem spaces, aligning cross-functional teams around common objectives, raising the quality of decision-making, and helping shape the long-term risk roadmap

Benefits

• Equity benefits: We believe everyone at Shakepay should benefit from building a generational company, so every shaker owns stock options
• Get paid in bitcoin: You can choose to take a percentage of your salary in bitcoin. Whether you opt for some or none, the choice to be paid in the hardest, soundest money the world has ever known is yours
• Remote friendly: With a flexible schedule, you can work on your own time, from home or anywhere. And if you're close by, you’re welcome to work in our Montreal or Toronto offices whenever you want. Being a remote-first company is awesome, but there’s value in spending time with your teammates and deepening these bonds. So, each shaker is entitled to 15 days of travel and accommodation to any Canadian city each year, covered by Shakepay
• Generous vacation: Time off is essential, and we highly encourage it. We trust you to take as much as you need, when you need it. Every team member is expected to take at least 20 days of vacation each year. To help make sure you do, after taking 20 days, shakers receive a $1,000 bonus to put towards their next vacation
• Insurance coverage: We offer health, dental, paramedical, disability, life, and travel coverage so you're always at your best. On top of our insurance coverage, all shakers also get access to a health and wellness spending account
• Personal development: It's a marathon, not a sprint. We're here to help you define and hit your personal career goals so that you can get where you want to be. To support our team, every shaker gets a $2,000 yearly budget to spend on learning and development
• Working from home: Working from home should be comfortable. Every shaker gets $1,200 to spruce up their home office and a monthly stipend for home and internet expenses
• Self-sovereignty: The path to self-sovereignty means being in full control of your coins. We offer a budget for shakers to get a self-hosted wallet and to build a self-hosted node