PayJoy

Machine Learning Engineer - Fraud

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2 months ago
Mexico City, MexicoMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Collaborate with global Fraud, Engineering, Product, and Risk teams to deliver data science products across Latam, South Africa, and APAC.
  • Design, build, deploy, maintain, and continuously improve machine learning models for fraud detection.
  • Improve fraud decisioning infrastructure by supporting new entity types, constructing rules, and scaling the system.
  • Clean, preprocess, and extract features from large and complex datasets.
  • Write production-level code with documentation, testing, and peer review.
  • Lead testing, cost-benefit analysis, and integration of new data sources.
  • Design and implement scalable feature-generation and extraction pipelines and model deployment and monitoring processes with the ML Platform and Tooling team.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
  • At least 3 years of experience as a data scientist, machine learning engineer, data engineer, or closely related professional.
  • Proven experience writing production-level code and developing and maintaining machine learning models in production.
  • High proficiency in Python and related libraries and frameworks such as Scikit-Learn, Pandas, and Flask.
  • Comprehensive knowledge of the machine learning lifecycle, including data extraction, feature engineering, model serving, and monitoring for live and batch processing.
  • Demonstrated experience with cloud providers, preferably AWS, and containerization tools such as Docker.
  • Experience with fraud detection or machine learning applications in financial markets is preferred.
  • Experience with LLMs or graph databases is preferred.
  • Hands-on Databricks experience for developing, deploying, and monitoring machine learning workflows at scale is preferred.
  • Good verbal and written communication skills in English.
  • Ability to work in a fast-paced environment with constantly changing requirements.

Benefits

  • Company-funded health coverage, dental coverage, and a vision discount plan for employees and immediate family members.
  • Life insurance, phone financing, headphone benefits, home-office equipment, and wellness perks.
  • 30 days of Christmas bonus, 20 days of paid vacation, 50% vacation premium, and 13% saving funds.
  • $2,000 MXN monthly grocery coupons.
  • $2,000 USD annual co-working travel perk.
  • $2,000 USD annual professional development perk.
  • Catered lunches.

Tech Stack

AWSDatabricksDockerFlaskPandasPythonscikit-learn

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1,001-5,000 employees
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