About the company
Kraken, the trusted and secure digital asset exchange, is on a mission to accelerate the adoption of cryptocurrency so that you and the rest of the world can achieve financial freedom and inclusion. Our 2,350+ Krakenites are a world-class team ranging from the crypto-curious to industry experts, united by our desire to discover and unlock the potential of crypto and blockchain technology. As a fully remote company, we already have Krakenites in 70+ countries (speaking 50+ languages). We're one of the most diverse organizations on the planet and this remains key to our values. We continue to lead the industry with new product advancements like Kraken NFT, on- and off-chain staking and instant bitcoin transfers via the Lightning Network.
Job Summary
The opportunity
šPartner with Compliance operations, Product, Engineering and other stakeholders to build descriptive and predictive models to identify anomalous activity šMaintain, update, and enhance the transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring codebases šEnsure that all activities meet model validation and audit requirements. šDesign and build proof-of-concept models to test hypotheses and help with idea generation and refinement šDevelop unsupervised and supervised models to find anomalous and risky activity šUse structured and unstructured data to enrich transaction monitoring and customer risk scoring metadata šDevelop anomaly detection, data quality checks, and data modeling tools to monitor key performance indicators to improve the efficiency of models
Skills you should HODL
š5+ years of industry experience in data science šData science experience in the financial industry šA consistent track record of performing data analysis using Python and SQL šExperience using statistics and machine learning to solve complex business problems šVersatility and willingness to learn new technologies on the job šThe ability to clearly communicate complex results to technical and non-technical audiences šExperience with containerization and deployments (docker, kubernetes) šExperience with CI/CD (Gitlab, Argo, Airflow) šFamiliarity with financial crime and market abuse typologies is a plus šExperience with crypto/blockchains preferred