At Shopify, we empower 1,000,000 entrepreneurs all over the world. We're looking for hard-working, passionate people to help us make commerce better. For over 10 years we have been super driven when it comes to using data insights to help drive our product direction and make things better for our merchants.
At Shopify, we recognize that after our people, our most important asset is our data. With over 10+ years of aggregate ecommerce data, we are driven by the potential insights that our data can provide. Our 1,000,000 merchants process over $72 billion in gross merchant volume through our platform, and depend on us to deliver insights that enable them to grow their business. The Data Science & Engineering team acts as the impact multiplier for Shopify’s product teams, putting over 11 petabytes of data to work to make our merchants more successful. From delivering merchandising insights, to optimizing shipping and processing rates, to reducing credit card fraud, to ad campaign recommendations - our Data Scientists deliver solutions from pipeline to platform via an array of open source tools.
- Understanding of dimensional modelling concepts and database design/architecture or experience with feature engineering both at model build and in production
- Experience with statistical methods like regression, GLMs, clustering, experiment design, including sampling and multi-armed bandit approaches, shipping productionized machine learning systems at scale and other predictor or classifier models
- Extensive experience using Python including a strong grasp of object oriented programming (OOP) fundamentals
- Extensive experience analyzing data using SQL
- Exposure to Tableau, QlikView, Mode, Matplotlib, Jupyter, or similar data visualization tools
- Strong background in machine learning including experience implementing models at scale (from Random Forest and GBMs to RNN/CNNs)
- Knowledge of digital marketing and traditional media data and metrics
- Previous experience using Spark (esp. via Python or Scala)
Our Data Science roles are curently based in Canada 🇨🇦(Ottawa, Toronto and Waterloo) and does require relocation. We know this may not be something you have yet considered. The stability & clear future prospects that Canada can offer may just be exactly what you’ve been looking for!
We happily offer immigration assistance and relocation support for successful hires and their families. There is a clear path to Canadian permanent residency when you work with us and the visa in many cases also allows for a work permit for spouses. We’ve moved hundreds of amazing people and their loved ones to Canada from around the world and we’re experts in making the process as simple and pain-free for you as possible. Don’t just take my word for it, hear from some of the team here!.
Here is how who we hire.
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At Shopify, we are committed to building and fostering an environment where our employees feel included, valued, and heard. Our belief is that a strong commitment to diversity and inclusion enables us to truly make commerce better for everyone. We strongly encourage applications from Indigenous people, racialized people, people with disabilities, people from gender and sexually diverse communities and/or people with intersectional identities.