Data Scientist

About Stripe

Stripe is a financial infrastructure platform that helps businesses accept payments, grow revenue, and pursue new business opportunities. Its mission is to increase the GDP of the internet.

Responsibilities

• Scope, design, build, and maintain APIs, services, and large-scale systems that reliably and efficiently handle billions of money movement requests.
• Design the next generation of Stripe products to meet company and customer growth needs.
• Analyze product requirements, user needs, and feedback; translate them into technical specifications; and assess design feasibility within cost and time constraints.
• Review API launches and library shapes for other teams to ensure backward and forward compatibility, coherent patterns, extensibility, and quality.
• Represent the team in technical meetings and understand how its systems interact with the broader company landscape.
• Mentor early-career engineers to help them become independent engineers.
• Establish core engineering tenets and design principles for team projects.

Minimum Qualifications

• Master's degree or foreign equivalent in Statistics, Data Analytics, Engineering, or a related field, plus 5 years of related experience in data science or quantitative modeling.
• Alternatively, a bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in those fields, plus 7 years of related experience in data science or quantitative modeling, including at least 5 years of post-bachelor's progressive related experience.
• At least 4 years of experience in each of the following:

- SQL.
- Programming languages including Python or R.
- Developing models, tuning thresholds to drive business outcomes, and deploying those models in production.
- Translating complex data analysis into actionable business outcomes.
- Writing or contributing to product strategy, roadmap, or technical design documents.

• At least 3 years of experience designing and analyzing production experiments to drive strategic and technical outcomes.

Work Schedule and Location

• Seattle, Washington.
• 40 hours per week.
• 50% telecommuting permitted.
• Multiple positions available.

Compensation and Benefits

• Annual base salary: $193,232–$288,000.
• Sales commission or sales bonus targets, if applicable, are in addition to base salary.
• Additional benefits may include equity, company bonus or sales commissions/bonuses, a 401(k) plan, medical, dental, and vision benefits, and wellness stipends.