Data Scientist

Nubank; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 400,000 - 600,000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

A leading digital banking platform in Mexico is looking for an enthusiastic Data Scientist to join their Credit Strategy team. This role focuses on innovative machine learning methodologies to enhance risk models and initial line assignment workflows. The ideal candidate should possess strong programming skills in Python or Scala, have a solid understanding of machine learning tools, and be proficient in English. The company offers diverse benefits including equity opportunities and health insurance.

Servicios

Equity earning potential

Extended maternity and paternity leaves

Health and life insurance

Mental health assistance program

Learning platform of courses

Language learning program

Gym partnership

Formación

• Strong coding skills in Python/Scala.
• Excellent experimental design ability.
• Effective communication with business and engineering teams.
• Solid understanding of model development and deployment.
• Experience with machine learning tools and libraries.

Responsabilidades

• Translate business challenges into machine learning solutions.
• Integrate external data sources for model inputs.
• Maintain high technical excellence in the team.
• Contribute to a culture of technical excellence.

Conocimientos

Strong coding skills Python/Scala

Experimental design skills

Ability to interact with business and engineering

Model development and deployment pipeline understanding

Experience with machine learning tools and libraries

Data handling skills, Spark Dataframes

English language proficiency

Herramientas

Scikit-learn

Mllib

SQL

Descripción del empleo

About Us

Nu was born in 2013 with the mission to fight complexity to empower people in their daily lives by reinventing financial services. We are one of the world’s largest digital banking platforms, serving millions of customers across Brazil, Mexico, and Colombia.

About the role

We are seeking an enthusiastic and driven Data Scientist to join our Credit Strategy team. This role focuses on applying innovative machine learning methodologies to our risk model and developing causal machine learning approaches for the initial line assignment workflow.

You will be responsible for

• Translate business challenges into specific and well-designed machine learning solutions that meet business requirements;
• Integrate and leverage external data sources to feed our models;
• Ensure the team maintains a high level of technical excellence;
• Contribute to a technical culture in the local team.
• Bring expertise to the team to help design projects across the many areas involved in building machine learning products (training, deployment, data consistency, monitoring, governance, etc.)

We are looking for a person who has

• Strong coding skills Python/Scala or equivalent languages;
• Experimental design skills;
• Ability to interact and communicate effectively with business and engineering;
• Good understanding of model development and deployment pipeline;
• Experience with machine learning tools and libraries such as Scikit-learn, Mllib and etc;
• Nice data handling skills, Spark Dataframes, or SQL proficiency is a plus;
• English language proficiency.

Local Benefits

• Chance of earning equity at Nubank
• Extended maternity and paternity leaves
• Health and life insurance
• NuCare - Our mental health and wellness assistance program
• Nucleo - Our learning platform of courses
• NuLanguage - Our language learning program
• Gym partnership

Diversity & Inclusion

At Nu, we want to be sure that we're building a more diverse and inclusive workplace that reflects the customers we serve and seek to empower. That's why we hire based on equality. We consider gender, ethnicity, race, religion, sexual orientation, and other identity markers as enriching elements to our company while ensuring neither of them represent a barrier when recruiting fantastic talent.