Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

Senior Data Scientist, Fraud

Moniepoint Inc. (Formerly TeamApt Inc.)

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇪🇸 Spain

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Job Level

Senior

Tech Stack

PythonSQL

About the role

  • Develop and deploy fraud detection, transaction monitoring, and behavioural risk models across payments, accounts, onboarding, and merchant activity
  • Design and run experiments to optimise fraud catch rates, false positives, and customer friction
  • Partner with product and engineering teams to embed models into real-time decisioning systems
  • Build features from high-volume transactional, device, network, and behavioural data
  • Continuously monitor model performance, drift, and emerging fraud patterns
  • Ensure data quality, governance, and responsible use of models in regulated environments
  • Support investigations, strategy, and policy teams with advanced fraud analytics
  • Mentor analysts and product teams on experimentation, detection strategy, and data-driven decision making

Requirements

  • A strong foundation in statistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar)
  • 5+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime
  • Hands-on experience with fraud detection, transaction monitoring, or behavioural risk modelling
  • Proficiency in SQL and at least one modelling/programming language (Python or R)
  • Experience with machine learning, anomaly detection, network/graph features, and real-time decision systems
  • Strong intuition for fraud typologies, adversarial behaviour, and evolving attack patterns
  • Ability to translate complex analysis into clear, actionable recommendations for technical and non-technical stakeholders
  • High ownership mindset and comfort working in fast-paced, cross-functional product environments.
Benefits
  • Culture: We put our people first and prioritize the well-being of every team member. We’ve built a company where all opinions carry weight and where all voices are heard. We value and respect each other and always look out for one another. Above all, we are human.
  • Learning: We have a learning and development-focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
  • Compensation: You’ll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, monthly bonuses, plus other benefits

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
fraud detectiontransaction monitoringbehavioural risk modellingstatisticsSQLPythonRmachine learninganomaly detectionreal-time decision systems
Soft skills
data-driven decision makingmentoringcommunicationcollaborationproblem-solvingadaptabilityownership mindsetstrategic thinkingclear recommendationscross-functional teamwork