Senior Data Scientist

About Float

Float is one of Canada s fastest growing companies and Top Startups (2024 & 2023), serving Canadian businesses with our innovative smart corporate card, bill pay, and spend management solution. Float s team is customer-obsessed, passionate, vibrant, and entrepreneurial, and includes executives from Uber, Shopify, Top Hat, Ritual, Ada, and many other incredible tech companies!

At Float, everyone is an owner, bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important, and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts, feedback, and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decision making decentralized so that all team members contribute.

Our product

Float is Canada s first modern financial institution built to help Canadian businesses grow. We re making finance more accessible and saving businesses time and money, while empowering them with capital and disrupting the multi-trillion dollar global B2B finance industry. Backed by some of the best venture capital investors in the world, including Tiger Global, Golden Ventures, and Susa Ventures, we re looking for pioneers to help us achieve our vision.

About the Senior Data Scientist Role

We re looking for an experienced Data Scientist to play a foundational role in shaping Float's data science capabilities, strategies and to continue to build out our Data Science team.

Requirements

As a Senior Data Scientist at Float:

• You ll develop a data strategy that is aligned to Float s strategy, identify key metrics, which data needs to be collected, and set the processes for how data will be stored, cleaned, and maintained at Float
• You ll build upon Float s data infrastructure and determine which technologies and tools the company should use for its data science activities.
• You ll build and maintain our data warehouse, using DBT to transform our data unlocking deeper analytics and empowering those outside the data team to use data in their day-to-day
• You ll work closely with the product team to build data-led products
• You ll analyze large-scale, complex datasets to extract meaningful insights and drive decision-making
• You ll evaluate the performance of existing models and propose enhancements to improve accuracy, efficiency, and scalability
• You ll work closely with all teams across Float to understand their data needs and provide solutions

You ll be great in this role if:

• You re an owner. You love a challenge, and take great satisfaction in tackling them head on. You love being a pioneer and taking on any task (big or small) and driving it through to completion. You are also comfortable making independent decisions and following your instincts to be able to move quickly.
• You re able to explain complex data in simple terms. As you'll be communicating your findings to different stakeholders, your ability to present data in an understandable way is vital.
• You have solid technical skills. Strong skills in data modeling, data structures, data mining, predictive modeling and analysis tools (such as Python, SQL, DBT), and data visualization tools, are crucial. Understanding of machine learning algorithms and statistics is an asset.
• You understand the business context. You'll be more effective if you understand not just how to work with data, but also why you're working with it - i.e., how it will impact the business and drive decisions.
• You re comfortable with a fast-paced environment. Float is a dynamic environment and things can change quickly. You should be flexible and able to adapt to changes as they occur.
• You can balance attention to detail and strategic thinking. While it's important to delve into the details of your data, it's equally important to keep the big picture in mind.
• You ruthlessly prioritize. You will have multiple responsibilities and projects. Being able to effectively manage your workload and meet deadlines is crucial.
• You have an experimental mindset. The ability to design and analyze experiments will be very helpful in optimizing products and making business decisions.
• You re eager to continue your own learning. Scrappy and voracious, you want to know the why behind every answer. You love to have healthy debates with fellow developers and colleagues about the product.

This role won t be a fit if:

• You re not extremely detail oriented
• You are not open to a hybrid role
• You aren t a self-starter and don t like to work independently
• You re not comfortable wearing multiple hats
• You don t like change and adapting to new ways of doing things
• You aren t comfortable with ambiguity
• You aren t able to translate technical jargon into simple language
• You lack patience for iterative work
• You want detailed to-dos for your tasks and projects
• You re not keen on learning new things
• You don t have strong stakeholder management skills
• You don t like regular feedback on your work

Don t meet every single requirement? If you re excited about this role, and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesn t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this, or other future positions.

Benefits

Benefits and Perks of working at Float:

• Competitive compensation & total rewards
• Flexible work hours and time off when you need to recharge
• Small team = lots of autonomy to make a huge impact
• Opportunity to work with and learn from a world-class team
• A personal Float card with a monthly stipend to spend on what matters most to you
• A dog-friendly office
• Being able to say you helped build Canada's best corporate card and spend management platform