job description we at flywire are looking for a smart analytical thinker whos excited to empower datadriven decision making at an exciting and fastgrowing organization as a data scientist you will need to possess the unique set of skills that allows you not only to design and implement stable reliable and productive data science solutions but also identify the areas of the business where these solutions would be most helpful the data scientist will be a part of a small nimble and multifunctional team and will therefore need to be comfortable working at all levels of the data science pipeline from data collection to data manipulation to model buildingtuning to presentation of results and ultimately deploying models into production great technical aptitude is a must for this role but were also looking for someone thats willing to work across flywire teams to understand real business problems and design solutions that will ultimately provide insights into the performance of the company improve process efficiencies and contribute to our companys ability to provide a worldclass crossborder payment solution key responsibilities drive flywires ongoing efforts to integrate machine learning and data science into our products and services in order to gain a deeper understanding of the drivers behind our business and create a more efficient and productive payments solution interact with teams across the organization to identify opportunities for general efficiencies and improvements that can be made through the usage of data including optimizing international funds flows predicting payer conversion and forecasting client volume contribute to the development of productiongrade data pipelines and etl processes to support analytics projects business intelligence reporting and machinelearning solutions manage the ongoing development and maintenance of anomaly detection algorithms to rapidly detect potential issues in data quality or important business metrics collaborate across teams to optimize internal operations and international funds flow qualifications bs in computer science mathematics or related field experience in building and deploying productiongrade machine learning algorithms experience in building data extraction and manipulation scripts in python andor r strong sql experience database management experience is strongly preferred particularly with redshift andor google bigquery general understanding of the broader data landscape trends and emerging technologies hunger and excitement for learning new tools and techniques excellent problem solving skills you may not know the solution to all the problems youll face but you have the ability to research available technologiesstrategies and figure out a solution or a path forward strong communication skills you can make even the most complex data and technical problems easy to comprehend preferred criteria experience in international finance andor the payments space experience in business intelligence development tableau looker etc demonstrated ability of building streaming data applications familiarity with apache spark docker airflow additional information with over 30 nationalities across 9 different offices and diversity and inclusion at the core of our people agenda we believe our flymates are our greatest asset and were excited to watch our unique culture evolve with each new hire job description we at flywire are