Data Scientist - Fraud Risk

The role

You will own metrics, dashboards, and reports to inform business strategy. You will design and implement real-time monitoring systems and risk controls using predictive ML models.

What you will do

• Own the metrics, dashboards, and reports that inform business strategy and decision-making
• Design and implement real-time monitoring systems for fraud signals and alerting thresholds
• Design, simulate, and implement real-time risk controls using real-time and offline predictive ML models
• Balance risk controls with customer experience by focusing on loss savings, reduced user friction, and margin improvement
• Partner with go-to-market teams to demonstrate the technical and business value of risk controls to customers
• Effectively summarize complex analytical results to leadership and non-technical stakeholders
• Assist partners when they have fraud concerns with their traffic

Required qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in SQL and Python
• 3+ years hands-on experience working on automated fraud risk strategies and experimentation (A/B tests), including implementation of real-time and offline predictive ML models
• Skilled in designing, building, and maintaining dashboards and fraud risk metrics
• The ability to manage ambiguous problems and find solutions
• High autonomy, including the ability to prioritize your workload effectively
• Relevant quantitative bachelor’s (or higher) degree (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, etc.)

Nice to have

• Experience at a high-growth fintech company or financial services company
• Exposure to customer-facing or GTM-facing analytics or fraud issue triaging
• Background in identity risk, AML, payments fraud, or compliance analytics
• Fluency in AI-assisted data analysis / data science tooling

Benefits

• Unlimited time off
• Requirement to take at least 10 days off
• Flexible working
• Stipend to create a comfortable home environment
• Comprehensive health, dental and vision plans for US Rainmakers and dependents
• 100% company subsidized life insurance plan
• 401(k) with a 4% company match
• Equity option plan
• Rain Cards for testing core products
• Use of card for eligible health and wellness spending
• Team summits including domestic and international off-sites

About the company

Rain makes the next generation of payments possible across the globe. Their infrastructure makes stablecoins usable in the real-world by powering card transactions, cross-border payments, B2B purchases, remittances, and more.