Senior Data Scientist - Machine Learning

<div class="content-intro"><p>At Catawiki, every day brings the extraordinary! Whether it’s <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia">Daniel Ricciardo’s Formula 1 Car</a>, a <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/579-fossils">Woolly Mammoth’s Skeleton</a>, <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/l/10035805">Lady Gaga's Jumpsuit</a> or <a href="https://www.catawiki.com/en/c/583-sports-memorabilia">Usain Bolt’s running shoe</a>, we encounter exceptional objects every day.</p> <p>We’re a one-of-a-kind marketplace for buying and selling special objects. Each week, more than 100,000 unique items are auctioned, all carefully curated by our passionate in-house experts.</p> <p>Having sold over 25 million unique objects, our mission is to become the world’s most popular destination for special objects. As a growing, diverse and sustainable scale-up, we proudly live by three core values. If these values resonate with you, we’d love to explore how you can join us.</p> <ul> <li>Taking ownership and driving impact </li> <li>Being open to change and feedback</li> <li>Being passionate about our mission and our customers. </li> </ul></div><h3><strong>Our Data Story</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">With ten-thousands of active items on auction every day, hundred-thousands of bids, millions of users, and billions of events, the Catawiki platform generates vast amounts of data. We collect this data centrally, using it to generate business insights, as well as powering machine learning models that enhance our user experience, optimize our workflows, and keep our platform safe. We believe in creating flexible models that can be applied to a variety of use cases, and in experimentation and iteration to hit the ground running and continually improve the tools we build.</span><span style="font-weight: 400;">The Data Team, which covers the full data spectrum of Machine Learning, Analysis and Data Engineering, has a clear a mission within Catawiki:</span></p> <p><strong>Why</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: We believe that by using data in a smart way, we can build the best Catawiki possible. We want to have impact and see opportunities everywhere.</span></p> <p><strong>How</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;">: We are builders, thinkers and talkers. We collaborate closely with every department to create value for our customers. We think big and hold ourselves to high standards, because our work really matters for the future of the company.</span></p> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;"><strong>What</strong>: As a result we create business value by delivering scalable, robust models and actionable insights and predictions. We help the company to find opportunities and understand success, and we empower everyone to use data to be successful.<br><br></span></p> <h3><strong>So what's the job</strong></h3> <p><span style="font-weight: 400;">As a </span><strong>Senior</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> </span><strong>Machine Learning Data Scientist</strong><span style="font-weight: 400;"> in the Data Team at Catawiki you will focus on delivering scalable and impactful data products. You’ll work closely with our product and development teams while implementing your work. This includes:</span></p> <ul> <li style="font-weight: 400;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Building production-ready models that apply machine learning and advanced data science techniques within our product offering by writing robust and scalable code.</span></li> <li style="font-weigh