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Headquartered in Utrecht, we are scaling our platform and our team across Europe and beyond.\nAbout the role\nAs part of SurePay’s strategic growth, we are expanding beyond our core Account Verification services to launch an integrated suite of actionable Fraud and AML risk intelligence products. To drive this, we have established a dedicated domain: Fraud Risk Intelligence. You will join a focused cross-functional team and your primary anchor project is designing and launching our centralized transaction risk-scoring engine. Within the team, you will collaborate closely with our other Data Scientist, focussing on translating complex statistical concepts into modular, production-ready prototypes. Responsibilities include:\nBuild quick-turnaround ML prototypes to validate hypotheses and identify signal quality\nWork closely with product and ML engineering to turn POCs into scalable systems\nExplore financial datasets to uncover patterns, edge cases, and insights\nSelect the right algorithms based on the problem (supervised, unsupervised, anomaly detection, etc.)\nFine-tune models with awareness of overfitting, false positives, and interpretability\nHelp define how we measure success for fraud detection (e.g., recall vs. precision, AUC, business cost)\nAbout you\nThis is an early stage product team so we are looking for someone eager to contribute with ideas, structure, and rigor and who enjoys solving messy problems and working across the full stack of data science. You bring structure to chaos, prototype quickly, and care about solving real-world problems, not just building cool models. Furthermore:\n5+ years of experience in Data Science roles, ideally within fraud, security, or high-noise domains\nStrong statistical and analytical skills. You should be able to reason clearly about data and model performance\nProficient in Python and key ML libraries (e.g., pandas, scikit-learn, PyTorch, MLflow)\nExperience designing, tuning, and evaluating machine learning models\nKnowledge of data pipelines, basic backend development, and infrastructure awareness\nFamiliarity with model interpretability tools and techniques\nWhat we offer\nCompetitive salary + 8% personal benefits budget (use it on training, more time off, or your salary)\n25 holidays \nHybrid working setup \nMacBook Pro, iPhone, and all the tech you need\nTravel costs covered (NS Business Card)\nPension plan\nA culture of ownership, innovation, and autonomy\nFriday drinks, offsites, and a quarterly company meetup\nA diverse team of 35+ nationalities, driven by impact\nAbout SurePay \nFounded in 2016 \n± 130 employees\n±30 nationalities\nFlat organisation and no hierarchy\nSurePay makes payments easier, more personal and even more secure. We are a fast-growing FinTech SaaS company and have secured our Series A funding in September 2021. SurePay stems from an innovation program of Rabobank, started in July 2016 and has been an independent BV since the beginning of 2020. SurePay is backed by two leading investors: Rabo Investments and Carlyle Europe Technology Partners. Both are highly experienced in scaling international B2B SaaS and FinTech companies. Their support reinforces SurePay’s mission to prevent payment fraud globally and accelerate our international growth.\nSurePay's core values are; We Care, Build Together, Think Forwardand Be Responsible. These core values are the driver's of our culture and can be seen as guidelines on our beliefs and behaviour. It defines what we find important as a company and the way we work together everyday.\nWe Care: We are a supportive employer and understand that health, family and safety is what really matters. We care about our employees, customers, partners and end-users. Therefore we value creating a safe workspace where everybody can be their authentic self and where we, together, work on the same mission to provide safer payments.\nBuild Together: We believe in teamwork and strive towards the best results together with employees and customers. Our diversity, both personal and professional, is one of our key strengths. \nThink Forward: We are frontrunners and are on top of our game. Our customers can rely on innovative solutions to service their current and future needs. With a problem solving mindset, we anticipate challenges and adapt to a fast changing environment. \nBe Responsible: We all contribute to reaching our mission of reducing fraud and misdirected payments, leading to a positive impact on society. 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