My client is a web based company that assists people from every aspect when they need to get from A – B. They are one of the top online travel resources used around the world, with over 10 million visitors per month.

As the Data Scientist, you will be immediately responsible for shaping a hugely successful consumer focused product within a heavily team focused environment. This role has a range of opportunities depending on your skills and interests.

These may range from:

• Use machine learning to improve our indicative prices or our SEO targeting
• Drill down into Google Analytics and our own server logs to analyse user behaviour
• Develop a system for measuring and reporting the accuracy of our search technology
• Develop A/B test experiments and measure improvements to user experience, traffic and revenue
• Develop new features such as live fares integration or user accounts and search history
• Optimize the accuracy and speed of our multi-modal search algorithm

The ideal candidate:

Ideally we need somebody with a PhD in Computer Science, and some software engineering experience. Skills and a passion for software development are essential – this is an applied scientist role that requires analytical and engineering skills to develop, implement, test, deploy and evaluate improvements to the product. The role can suit someone with an academic background looking to transition to industry, such as a recently completed PhD or PostDoc, if they are able to demonstrate software engineering fundamentals.
Experience with a breadth of programming languages, a broad toolkit, the ability to thrive independently and a “get stuff done” attitude are important to us. Our codebase is C# and JavaScript. You do not need to be a C# or JavaScript expert, but you need to be the type of engineer that wants to quickly learn new languages and can work within an existing codebase. An analytical, skeptical, scientific mind is essential. You will be working closely with four other engineers with Computer Science PhDs and research backgrounds.

If this looks like the role for you then please call Geraint on 03 8637 7370 or email me on [email protected]