Data Scientist

Domain: iGaming / Gambling
Format: Product company
Experience: 5+ years

About the Company

We are an international product company operating in the gambling sector. Our platform delivers real-time personalization for casino and sportsbook products using advanced machine learning. The solution processes live behavioral, transactional, and contextual data to improve player engagement, retention, and overall performance for operators worldwide.

Our focus is on building production-grade ML systems that directly influence what users see in real time — from game recommendations to personalized content and promotions.

Role Overview

We are looking for a Senior Data Scientist to join a product-focused team working on real-time personalization and recommendation systems for iGaming platforms.

This is a hands-on role that combines modeling, experimentation, and close collaboration with engineering and product teams in a high-load, real-time production environment.

Main Responsibilities

• Develop ML-driven features for casino products using supervised learning (regression, ranking, classification)
• Maintain and improve existing recommendation systems in production
• Enhance models using gradient boosting and other supervised approaches
• Perform data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering
• Design and maintain pre- and post-processing workflows
• Optimize training and inference pipelines for performance and reliability
• Integrate ML models into Airflow pipelines in a multi-tenant environment
• Adapt and configure the solution for different clients (tenants)
• Collaborate closely with product and engineering teams on experimentation and feature delivery

As Part of the Team You Will

• Work cross-functionally with data scientists, engineers, product owners, designers, and researchers
• Analyze large-scale datasets to extract insights for product and business decisions
• Propose, implement, and evaluate ML approaches to solve real business problems
• Support and evolve a recommendation solution used across multiple tenants
• Influence product strategy through research, experimentation, and data-driven insights into user behavior

Experience & Education

• 5+ years of professional experience in data science
• Degree in a quantitative field (Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or similar)

Core Skills

• Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
• Hands-on experience with data processing tools (Pandas, Polars)
• Solid engineering skills for building and maintaining scalable ML systems
• Experience implementing observability in ML pipelines (metrics, logging, alerting)
• Knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes
• Strong analytical mindset with the ability to solve loosely defined problems
• Hands-on experience with supervised ML techniques, including:
  • Regression and ranking models (XGBoost, LightGBM, CatBoost, neural networks)
  • Feature engineering and model evaluation (AUC, NDCG, MSE, uplift metrics)
  • Personalization or recommendation systems
• Proven experience deploying ML models to production (near real-time or batch)
• Solid understanding of statistical methods (A/B testing, significance testing)

Nice to Have

• Production experience with large-scale recommendation systems
• Experience with Airflow, Valkey/Redis, FastAPI in production
• Familiarity with contextual bandits or reinforcement learning
• Experience with AutoML tools