Senior Data Scientist

Job Description

Marktplaats is the largest online trading platform in the Netherlands. Consumer and professional sellers offer a large and varied assortment of used and new products. But we aim to go even further - we are constantly changing our platform to deliver the experience our customers love. We are a mix of Dutch and Silicon Valley cultures; like both, we are an international team of passionate people who share a common interest in solving problems using software and data.

About the team:

Classifieds is shaping the future of local commerce by bringing people together through an enriched online experience that allows them to work closely with the community around them. We are comprised of more than 1,000 people with a passion for local trade and maintaining the customer-centric nature of the Group, while exploring growth opportunities in both the countries where eBay Classifieds Group (eCG) already has a presence and in prospective markets.

Ask any Dutch internet users about their favorite Marktplaats story. Observe their excitement about the phenomenal deal they found or the interesting people they met! They have made Marktplaats the most popular site and the most downloaded app made in the Netherlands.

Marktplaats is part of eCG, and from our Amsterdam office, we serve Marktplaats.nl, 2dehands.be/2ememain.be our Belgium counterparts.

We invite you to join us! This is a big responsibility; you will work on improving customer experience through innovation, impact revenues and advance our team and technologies that we use. In turn, we will work with you to grow your career in Marktplaats and eBay.

Your growth will involve our highly-performant and high-traffic systems. During peak hours, our site's per-second throughput is OVER 1000 searches (which makes us the second most-used search engine in NL), 25K images and 4GB of data; Marktplaats handles over 1 million unique visitors, 350K new advertisements and 155K transactions daily. On an average month, we get 140 million visits, which translates into 2.5 billion page views.

What you can expect from us:

• A collaborative, informal, international and playful work environment with self-organized, multi-disciplinary agile/lean teams
• Managers and teammates who are invested in your growth as a technologist and as a person
• Work with cool modern technologies such as Scala, Hadoop, Apache Spark, Elasticsearch, Apache Kafka, Scala.
• Access to tools and resources to do your job (best-in-class laptop, IDEs, Safari Online subscription, conferences and meetups, all the coffee and soda you can drink, and much more)
• Ability to join and participate in multiple internal interest groups across eCG in trending topics like DevOps, Data Science, Mobile Development, Customer Experience and more
• Continuous Deployment through multiple environments to get rapid feedback about your work
• Work on some of the most beloved brands in the Netherlands, Belgium and UK

Senior Data Scientist

We are looking for ambitious Data Scientist with experience in translating data to business value to join the world’s leading online classifieds business. Given the pace the industry is moving we are continuously rethinking and adapting our approach to using data to deliver compelling user experiences leveraging recent advancements in technology. You will join the local data team, responsible for fast experimentation, and the user journeys in both Marktplaats and 2dehands.be, working with highly skilled engineers and scientists to help deliver our strategy around Big Data and advanced Data Science techniques to transform our business across the globe.

Requirements

• Knowledge/experience on/with statistical programming languages, including R, Python, SLQ, etc., to process data and gain insights from it
• Experience using and developing data architectures
• Knowledge of Machine Learning techniques, including decision tree learning, clustering, artificial neural networks, etc., and their pros and cons
• Knowledge and application experience in advanced statistical techniques and concepts, including, regression, distribution properties, statistical testing, etc.
• Good communication skills to promote cross-team collaboration
• Multilingual coding knowledge/experience: Scala, C, C++, etc.
• Experience/knowledge in:
• statistics and data mining techniques, including, random forest, GLM/regression, social network analysis, text mining, etc.
• distributed data and computing tools, including, MapReduce, MySQL, Hadoop, Spark, Hive, etc.

Responsibilities

• Implement data models and algorithms that tackle real-world business problems like customer segmentation, channel attribution, marketing performance, and Yield optimization
• Work in a multi-functional team to develop new ideas, test them and measure success.
• Translate data and insights into concise and actionable recommendations.

Interested?

From the moment that you join our team, we aspire to make your employment experience an outstanding and engaging one. If you are enthusiastic and thrive in a collaborative and friendly environment then apply and send us your CV.

Background checks are part of the hiring process.

Acquisition is not appreciated.

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