Senior Data Scientist (Fintech)

TL;DR

Senior Data Scientist (Fintech): Building and optimizing models, services, and platforms for payments, improving user money movement through ACH with an accent on applying best-in-class methodologies, developing new products, and enhancing existing systems. Focus on tackling high-impact analytics and machine learning challenges, driving strategic decisions, and evaluating ML systems to shape business outcomes.

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco or New York City, USA. Salary tiers are defined for various US geographic zones, and US-specific benefits are provided.

Salary: $174,000–$260,400 a year

Company

hirify.global is a product company that builds tools and experiences for developers, empowering financial transformation and connecting financial accounts to various apps and services.

What you will do

• Apply expertise in quantitative analysis, data mining, and data visualization to find insights for API products.
• Identify useful signals that can be fed into machine learning models.
• Inform and influence product and engineering teams through data analysis and presentations.
• Make long-term data science roadmap decisions and champion a data-first approach.
• Deep dive into model performance, triage issues, and identify opportunities for improvement across ML risk systems.
• Develop new features to strengthen model performance and build scalable data pipelines.

Requirements

• 5+ years of industry experience in a product-focused Data Science role.
• Experience working on ACH risk strategy or system.
• Deep familiarity with SQL and data visualization tools.
• Experience conducting large-scale A/B experiments, analyzing results, and translating them into concrete recommendations.
• Understanding of modern machine learning techniques (classification, clustering, optimization, deep neural network, natural language processing).
• Ability to code and iterate independently in Python to conduct exploratory data analysis.

Nice to have

• Experience building data pipelines in DBT or Airflow.

Culture & Benefits

• hirify.global provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k).
• Mission to unlock financial freedom for everyone by building a diverse team.
• Committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities.