Senior Data Scientist - Jumia (Full Time)
at Jumia Egypt
About Jumia:
Jumia believes that technology has the potential to transform everyday life in Africa for the better. Jumia was built to help consumers access millions of goods and services conveniently and at the best prices while opening up a new way for sellers to reach consumers and grow their businesses.
Listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in 2019, Jumia is the leading e-commerce company in Africa, operating in 11 countries. The Jumia platform consists of a marketplace, which connects sellers with consumers, a logistics service, which enables the shipment and delivery of packages from sellers to consumers, and a payment service, JumiaPay, which offers a safe and easy solution to facilitate online payment transactions. The company offers goods across a broad range of categories, such as phones and electronics, home appliances, fast-moving consumer goods, fashion and beauty.
About Jumia Cairo Tech Center
What you will be doing
Being responsible for one of our data science projects Mentor junior data scientists involved in the project Develop an end-to-end understanding of business Owns business KPIs attached to the project Evaluate models and fine-tune model parameters considering the business problem behind Designing, implementing, and analyzing AB tests Be able to work autonomously on complex projects proposing innovative solutions where appropriate Working closely with data / bigData engineers to deploy the models into production and ensure scalability
What we are looking for
PhD or Master's degree (with 4+ years of experience) in data science or a similar field Very comfortable using Pandas, Numpy, Scikit-learn, XGboost and matplotlib Experience in one or more programming languages (Python, R, etc.) Advanced SQL Knowledge of applied statistics (fit regression curves, build predictive models, statistical significance) Experience with A/B testing Good communication skillsNice to have: experience in NLP, Deep Learning related libs (e.g. TensorFlow, Keras, PyTorch), PySpark, Solver
We Offer:
A unique experience in an entrepreneurial, yet structured environment A unique opportunity of having strong impact in building the African e-commerce sector The opportunity to become part of a highly professional and dynamic team An unparalleled personal and professional growth as our longer term objective is to train the next generation of leaders
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