Lead Data Scientist — Personalization for Payments

GoTo Financial

Singapore

Hybrid

SGD 120,000 - 170,000

Full time

5 days ago
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Job summary

GoTo Financial is seeking a data scientist to develop and optimize personalization and recommendation models for GoPay users. You will apply DS techniques, work with product and engineering to deploy end-to-end ML pipelines, prototype rapidly, and run A/B tests to measure CTR, conversions, and other metrics.

You will leverage large-scale behavioral data to guide feature design and strategic personalization.

Qualifications

  • 6–8 years of hands-on data science or ML experience.
  • Strong Python proficiency and ML frameworks.
  • Solid ML fundamentals with evaluation metrics.
  • Experience with large-scale datasets and distributed environments.
  • Excellent analytical and communication skills.
  • Master's or PhD is a plus.
  • Hands-on with search/recommendation/ads systems.
  • Familiarity with LLMs/LLVMs in production.

Responsibilities

  • Build data science solutions with cross-functional teammates to engage customers and grow GoPay's user base.
  • Prototype data science solutions and participate in product discussions.
  • Analyze large volumes of data to generate actionable insights.
  • Own end-to-end solutions from problem formulation to deployment with engineers.
  • Participate in conferences and workshops.
  • Design and implement search, recommendation, or advertising algorithms across GoTo products.
  • Build user behavior and query/assortment models using LLMs/LLVMs to improve matching.
  • Collaborate with product, engineering, and business DS teams to run experiments and deploy scalable solutions.

Skills

6–8 years
Python
ML frameworks
ML fundamentals
Large-scale data
Analytical skills
English communication
Product intuition
LLMs/LLVMs
Search/recs systems

Education

Master's or Ph.D. in quantitative field

Tools

Spark
MaxCompute

Job description

GoTo Financial is seeking a data scientist to develop and optimize personalization and recommendation models for GoPay users. You will apply DS techniques, work with product and engineering to deploy end-to-end ML pipelines, prototype rapidly, and run A/B tests to measure CTR, conversions, and other metrics.

You will leverage large-scale behavioral data to guide feature design and strategic personalization.

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