Postes à Gatineau, Canada

Hungry for a challenge?

That’s good, because at SkipTheDishes, part of Just Eat Takeaway.com (JET), we have abundant opportunity or as we say, everything is on the table. We are a leading global online food delivery marketplace. Our tech ecosystem connects millions of active customers with hundreds of thousands of connected partners in countries across the globe.

We are looking for an experienced Data Scientist to join our team and lead efforts in optimizing driver pay. In this role, you will leverage advanced analytics and machine learning techniques to analyze driver performance data, design incentive programs, and develop predictive models to maximize earnings while maintaining cost-efficiency and ensuring timely deliveries.

You will be part of an established team of data scientists with experience in these areas, and work closely with multiple teams, from product to tech teams, collaborating and building the next generation of algorithms that will scale our business.

This role will require interfacing with different teams, and working under sharp production deadlines. You will take part in the product development cycle shaping cutting edge solutions, while mentored by a Lead Data Scientist and some of the most experienced leads in the market.

Being part of the team means that you will work in an Agile environment, having constant interaction with the team, stand-ups and many peer-reviews where we will help you perfect your models and solutions from end-to-end. Therefore, ensuring an effective deployment, being comfortable analyzing, troubleshooting and explaining why & how your solution works are key to this role.

Location: Remote Canada

Reporting to: Lead Data Scientist

We run one of the few profitable smart logistic systems in food delivery, it auto-schedules and optimizes itself to provide the best service experience. In any of the countries we run, we recommend customers the best food, with the best restaurants that are aware of their preferences and habits. Instantaneous data about your order flows through our systems, empowering our tools to predict when your food will arrive.

If you are passionate about logistics optimization, forecasting and Food, come and join us, let\'s build the next generation of food delivery apps!

• MS degree / PhD degree in a quantitative discipline (eg. Computer Eng., Computer Science, Stats, Physics). Undergraduate, if has taken courses related to the field.
• Demonstrable relevant working experience
• Applied experience with machine learning, data science and solving problems at scale
• Ability to communicate business outcomes and recommendations from analysis verbally and written, ability to present results coherently
• Ability to develop confidently in Python as the majority of our team is using it. We need people with a passion for software, who can read and understand complicated codebases.
• Confident in extracting and manipulating data from our various SQL and NoSQL data stores and storage frameworks.

• Practical experience on complete modeling lifecycle, from exploratory analysis through deployment, experimentation and monitoring.
• Experience working on a Logistics project
• Experience working with pricing algorithms
• Experience in retail in similar markets to Just-Eat takeaway
• Experience working in agile teams, with code reviews and source control
• Experience with causal inference and multi-objective optimization
• Comfortable with big data stores (Google BigQuery, Amazon Datastores) and tools (including dynamoDB, elasticsearch, S3, SQS, Kinesis) or Spark / Hadoop / Kafka.

At JET, we build strong connections across teams and collaborate with some of the world’s most recognized brands—giving our work a global reach in a fast-moving environment. Our culture is energetic, supportive, and always evolving. We celebrate growth, innovation, and every achievement of our JETers, keeping us a step ahead of the competition.

Whoever you are, wherever you’re from, and whoever you love—you have a place here. We’re dedicated to fostering an inclusive culture that values diverse people and perspectives, ensuring everyone feels they truly belong and can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day.