PaymentSense
Senior Data Scientist
Job Description
Salary: £25,000 - 65,000 per year
Requirements:- We are looking for someone who is curious and has a real desire to learn and create.
- We are looking for someone who is relentless and keeps going even when it is easier not to.
- We are looking for someone who is customer-obsessed and understands the importance of customers to what we do.
- We partner with business leaders to shape domain strategy with data, directly influencing revenue, cost, and churn levers.
- We define experimental and quasi-experimental standards, advising on advanced studies such as synthetic controls and staggered rollouts.
- We design advanced structural models for complex behavioral questions, reasoning from first principles where no playbook exists.
- We write highly efficient, optimized SQL and Python to build robust metric trees.
- We translate complex statistical uncertainty and causal findings into clear, narrative-driven insights for leadership.
- We establish verification frameworks for AI-assisted analysis to catch theoretical reasoning errors.
- AI
- Support
- LESS
- Python
- SQL
- Architect
- Spark
More:
We are reinventing payments and have become the largest and most loved acquirer in the UK in less than four years. Our payments infrastructure is purpose-built for in-person commerce, and over 150,000 customers across four countries choose to transact billions with us every year. We believe our people are our greatest investment and give them autonomy, trust, and ownership to thrive. We have an office-first culture with together days, and we work from the office 4+ days per week. Our offices across Europe include quiet zones, collaboration spaces, and social hubs designed to support different ways of working. We are committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, and we encourage candidates who care about their work, are curious, and think customer-first to join us.
last updated 35 week of 2026
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£75,000
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This salary is 40% below the UK median for Senior roles (£75,000/yr).
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