Data Scientist (Fintech)

Location: Fully remote; candidates must be based in the US, UK, Spain, Kenya, Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Burkina Faso, or another operating market in Africa including the listed countries. Remote team members are expected to travel to operational markets at least once a year, with exceptions.

Salary: $130,600–$236,200 USD per year depending on level and location, plus equity.

Company

hirify.global builds financial services and mobile payment products to expand access to affordable cashless payments across Africa.

What you will do

• Partner with product managers, business leaders, product teams, and operations teams to identify business problems and apply data to improve outcomes.
• Generate insights from customer, merchant, and internal data using statistical modeling, data visualization, and machine learning.
• Build credit scoring models, improve fraud detection, and develop data-driven heuristics and machine-learning models.
• Design, implement, and analyze optimizations for internal operations, user promotions, and the agent network to support scale and reduce costs.
• Own the analytics process from project scoping and design through communicating findings to stakeholders and monitoring solutions in production.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, Engineering, or a related discipline.
• 5+ years of experience in data science, machine learning, or technical analytics roles.
• Deep expertise in Python, SQL, and data visualization tools.
• Experience with at least one of machine learning, causal inference, statistical modeling, or A/B testing.
• Highly effective written communication and presentation skills.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, actionable insights for technical and business stakeholders.
• Ability to work with ambiguity, create clarity, prioritize iteratively, and drive progress in a fast-moving environment.
• Experience working in early-stage or rapidly scaling product teams and influencing product decisions.
• Ability to present findings compellingly to technical and non-technical audiences and make proactive data-based recommendations.
• Fluency in English.

Nice to have

• Master's degree or PhD.
• Experience applying machine learning, causal inference, statistical modeling, or A/B testing in operational settings with offline components, such as incentive structures for field staff.
• French language skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Autonomy and ownership across the full project lifecycle, from understanding the problem to monitoring the solution in production.
• $1,200 yearly stipend for coworking meetups with teammates.
• Subsidized health insurance for employees and dependents, plus retirement contributions; details vary by country.
• Six months of fully paid parental leave and subsidized fertility assistance.
• Flexible vacation, with most employees taking 30–40 days per year.
• $10,000 annual charitable donation matching and a generous equity package.

Hiring process

• Apply by submitting a resume in English and a cover letter describing interest in hirify.global and the role.
• Applications are reviewed frequently.