At Shakepay, we’re on a mission to usher in the Bitcoin golden age. This role is analytics‑first, with selective use of machine learning where it meaningfully improves understanding or decision quality. The staff or senior data scientist will architect risk systems, data infrastructure, and decision frameworks to enable sustainable business growth while balancing fraud prevention, regulatory compliance, customer experience, and operational efficiency.

Responsibilities

• Partner with engineering to define the architecture and technical strategy for internal risk systems and tooling.
• Collaborate with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations to define risk metrics, success criteria, and decision frameworks.
• Analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products.
• Build and maintain reporting that tracks fraud loss, false positives, customer friction, operational efficiency, and control performance....