Data Scientist

EngineeringFull TimeToronto, ON

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About Koho

Koho is a high profile FinTech company backed by some of the leading investors and advisors across Canada and Silicon Valley. More than 10,000 Canadians have signed up to join Koho and we’re just getting started.

We’re building Koho because we think there is a real opportunity to democratize the best financial tools for all Canadians, without profiting from fees, complexity and confusion. 

We’re starting with the Koho Visa* Prepaid Card and mobile app that allows users to manage daily financial needs (direct paycheque load, bill pay, ATM cash withdrawals, etc.), while offering tools such as automated savings goals, real-time updates, transfers, spending insights, categorizations and much more. You can see what people are saying about us here & what we’re working on here.

About the Role

We're building a world-class financial product and we need someone to help take our data strategy to the next level. Our team is growing fast, and we’re looking for a Data Scientist to join our team in Toronto. You understand the strategic importance of data in a financial services context and dream about doing amazing things with financial services information. 

Requirements

  • Ability to work at the strategy level - architecture of information management, business intelligence, analytics, AI and machine learning solutions;
  • Ability to get hands on with data: modelling, database design, data movement designs;
  • Understand how financial services firms generate and consume data;
  • You can operate in a startup environment and work with large corporate environments and can translate and align between these worlds;
  • Understand, refine and further the Koho product and data roadmap and facilitate roadmap management as it continues to evolve;
  • Familiar with relational as well as non-relational database approaches knowing which to apply where and when;
  • Passion for Machine Learning in Financial Services - ideas on how and where to improve customer’s financial lives;
  • Understanding of hot/warm/cold data concepts and when each is appropriate;
  • Understanding of event driven and stream based processing operations platforms and how to evolve a data strategy within this environment;
  • Knowledge about supervised learning and time series;
  • Knowledge of Python and/or R in a data science and machine learning context (e.g., pandas, tflearn, scikit-learn);
  • Specific exposure to PostgreSQL, Redis, MongoDB, Hadoop and similar platforms is helpful.

Benefits

Working at Koho

We can’t stand lip-service values. We invest time and resources into making sure Koho is as good as the people we hire. Just some of the reasons to apply:

  • Solve an important problem with an exceptional team
  • Get equity in a company you believe in
  • Full health and dental coverage
  • Growth minded company, including access to a personal coach
  • "Powder days" to give you the flexibility you need

*The Koho Visa Prepaid card is issued by Peoples Trust Company pursuant to license by Visa Int.