Millions of people experience real-life adventures with our apps. We help people all over the world discover the best hiking and biking routes, empowering our users to explore more of the great outdoors. And we’re good at it: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times and, with more than 12 million users and 100,000 five-star reviews, komoot is on its way to becoming one of the most popular cycling and hiking apps. Join our fully remote team of 60+ people and change the way people explore!

To help us grow, we’re looking for an experienced data scientist dedicated to improving our product experience. As a young tech company, we know how user engagement can be boosted by personalisation, recommendations, user-segmentations and smart retention hooks. Using a wide range of different data sets, from common analytics/product data to unusual data sets like GPS recording and social relations, you will drive product enhancements forward that will directly impact 12 million users.

We believe that innovations based on data science will reinforce and extend our leadership in the outdoor market and your role will be decisive for komoot’s success.

What you will do

Work closely with our backend, web and mobile developers, designers, copywriters and product managers
Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities and road maps
Investigate and evaluate data science approaches for product enhancements
Turn prototypes into production systems by writing clean and maintainable code
Deploy and monitor your code in our AWS Cloud (you can count on the support of experienced backend engineers)

Why you will love it

You will be challenged with a wide range of data science tasks (e.g. optimise ranking/composition of a feed, recommend users to follow, churn prediction, personalisation, ...)
You will deal with a diverse set of data (location data, social network, user content (images, text), external data source like OSM, product analytics, ...)
You will go beyond prototyping and ship your code to production
You will contribute to a product with a vision to inspire more people to go outdoors
You will work in a fast-paced startup with strongly motivated and talented co-workers
You will enjoy the freedom to organize yourself the way you want
We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, coworking center of your choice, our HQ in Potsdam or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3
You will travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides

You will be successful in this position if you

Have a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions to complex problems
Have a solid understanding of math and statistics
Have 3+ years of industry experience in data science
Master Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn and XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost
Bonus: TensorFlow, Keras or PyTorch
Know SQL
Love to write clean, maintainable and tested Python code
Have experience productionising your data science solutions
Have strong communication and team skills
Have a hands-on attitude and are highly self-driven
Bonus: Know statically typed languages such as Kotlin/Java/C or Go
Bonus: Have cloud experience (e.g. with AWS)
Bonus: Have BigData experience (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hadoop)

Sounds like you?

Then send us the following:

Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience
A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot
Examples of your work (e.g. GitHub Repositories, PDFs, Slideshare, etc.)
Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your Twitter/Instagram account, a blog or something else

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