[Hiring] Lead Machine Learning Scientist @Monzo

Role Description

As a Lead Machine Learning Scientist at Monzo, you’ll be working in a fast-moving environment, building and iterating on our financial crime defensive capabilities to ensure we keep Monzo and our customers safe. Your responsibilities will include:

• Providing technical leadership and shipping highly impactful ML-based solutions.
• Embedding in a cross-functional product squad, collaborating with product managers, data scientists, backend engineers, and designers.
• Identifying and scoping impactful opportunities to tackle Financial Crime and Fraud with Machine Learning.
• Leading the design and development of advanced real-time Machine Learning models.
• Driving up levels of technical expertise and best practice across the Machine Learning discipline.
• Working closely with the MLOps team to enable rapid iteration of models and optimizations of the full ML model lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Multiple year track record of excellence leading the development and deployment of advanced Machine Learning models.
• Experience developing and shipping deep learning, graph-based, and/or sequence-based ML architectures to production.
• Extensive experience writing production Python code and a strong command of SQL.
• Comfortable using Go lang, which is used in many of our backend microservices.
• Experience working in a team that deals with ambiguity.
• Product mindset with a focus on customer outcomes and data-informed decisions.
• Excitement about fast-moving developments in Machine Learning.
• Adaptable, curious, and enjoy learning new technologies and ideas.

Requirements

• Self-starter mindset; proactively identify issues and opportunities.
• Desire to reduce financial crime and protect customers with data-driven strategies.
• Excited to own the end-to-end journey from business problem to solution.

Benefits

• Relocation assistance to the UK.
• Visa sponsorship available.
• Flexible working hours.
• Learning budget of £1,000 a year for training courses and conferences.
• Part-time work options available.
• And much more, see our full list of benefits.

Company Description

Monzo is on a mission to make money work for everyone, moving away from traditional banking methods. Our product offerings include:

• Personal and business bank accounts.
• Joint accounts.
• Accounts for 16-17 year olds.
• Free kids account.
• Credit cards.
• Saving, investing, and pension combining services.

We focus on solving problems and changing lives through innovative financial solutions.