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CARD.COM is a well-funded financial startup in Santa Monica, CA. We issue Visa debit cards that connect brands with their fans and enable our customers to make a social statement with their payment. Data and scientific insights are at the core of CARD.COM’s operations. We’re looking to grow our Data Sciences & Analytics Team with an Experienced Statistical Programmer who would develop and maintain our real-time analytics platform.
Responsibilities:
- Design, manage and optimize our R-based real-time analytics platform
- Develop and deploy new predictive statistical models for customer data analysis
- Engineer scalable web-based reporting dashboards for enterprise reporting
- Development and timely reporting of internal metrics for core operations
Desired skills:
- Elite capabilities in the R programming language
- Deep understanding of profiling and deploying R code in distributed environments
- Capacity to design and deploy unit tests and integrate them into the development process
- Ability to develop data pipeline architectures for consumption and analysis of information from diverse web technologies with varying communication protocols
- Fluency with Git code management and familiarity with LaTeX/KnitR/Shiny workflows
- Experience with cloud-based computing and low-latency data stacks
- Bonus points for Linux Server Admin & Scrum Master experience
The ideal candidate would have:
- Built and maintained sophisticated R packages for 2-4 years
- Written non-standard R objects, methods, classes and is aware of latest developments in R-core and public package available through repositories like CRAN/Bioconductor
- Familiarity with Agile software development and experience as a software product manager
- A graduate degree in Statistics, Computer Science or the Physical Sciences with demonstrable experience in data-intensive statistical programming