What you should know about Zeelo
- We’re on a mission to build a global pop-up transport platform
that will transform inter-urban travel, by intelligently using data to
generate unscheduled and direct coach routes
- We’re a small young
team of do-ers, finding a balance between thinking big and getting
stuff done. Our team culture encourages people to be:
- Ambitious - anything is possible with a can-do attitude
- Empowered - make intelligent and informed decisions. Ask for forgiveness, not permission
- Cheeky - don’t accept anything because ‘that’s the way it’s always been’. Be cheeky and challenge the status quo
- We’re a well funded startup with transport and technology experience. We’ve identified a huge opportunity
We’re searching for a proactive and highly analytical Data Scientist
to join our Team. You will be a key player in the organization by
designing and implementing advanced analytics and using machine learning
to build predictive models for our route generation system.
Your main responsibilities will be:
- Conduct predictive analysis to build commercially viable routes
- Collaborate
with Product and Engineering teams in order to create predictive models
and generate insights from different data sources
- Coordinate, challenge and share the best analytical practices and methods within the organization
- Stay up to date with latest developments in Machine Learning technologies and Data Science trends
- Manipulate predicted results to automatically build optimised routes using mapping technologies
- Effectively communicate results and insights to other stakeholders throughout the organization
This is an opportunity to be an integral part of a small team with huge ambition.
You should be/have
- 2+ years of related experience as a Data Scientist, Machine Learning engineer or similar
- Experience with Python
- Experience in machine learning and building data-driven solutions
- Knowledge of mapping and geolocation technology
- Knowledge of SQL and experience working with large relational databases
- Experience in using version control systems as GIT and comfortable working with branches
- Strong verbal and written communication skills in English
- Outgoing - able to communicate well externally and also with the rest of the team
- Creative, driven, proactive and motivated to try new things
- A versatile, practical, pragmatic worker capable of working autonomously and as a part of an interdisciplinary team
We’d really like it if you
- Have experience using programming languages like R, Scala, Java, etc
- Have experience in Big Data technologies; such as NoSQL/graph databases and/or distributed computing
- Send us projects that you feel proud of along with your CV
- Have worked in a startup or worked on your own projects
Benefits
- Great culture. Humble. Creative. Friendly. Talented. These are the people we hire and this is how our working culture is shaped
- Flexible working hours
- 25 days holiday a year
- No one should work on their birthday, you can take that day off as well
- Zeelo team socials every couple of weeks
- Commitments
to training and development opportunities every quarter - just ask for
what you need and we’ll do our best to make it happen
**No recruiters please. Don’t waste your time**