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Shakepay

Risk Decision Scientist

Shakepay

Scientifique de la décision du risque chez Shakepay. Analyser la fraude et optimiser les systèmes de gestion des risques.

Posted 5/27/2026full-timeRemote • 🇨🇦 CanadaMid-LevelSenior💰 CA$150,000 - CA$250,000 per yearWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
CloudFluxPythonSQLTypeScript

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Collaborate with Engineering to define the architecture and technical strategy for internal risk management systems and tools.
  • Partner with Risk, Engineering, Security, Compliance, Product, and Operations teams to define risk indicators, success criteria, and decision frameworks.
  • Analyze fraud, scam, and abuse patterns across crypto and fiat products.
  • Create and maintain reports tracking fraud-related losses, false positives, customer friction, operational efficiency, and control performance.
  • Help design and structure data, instrumentation, and decisioning systems that power risk operations and fraud-prevention workflows.
  • Evaluate and iterate on risk rules and controls using rigorous analysis.
  • Apply statistical methods and targeted Machine Learning techniques where they materially improve decision quality, operational efficiency, or signal detection.
  • Conduct deep-dive investigations into incidents, trends, and emerging threats.
  • Communicate insights clearly and persuasively to key stakeholders.
  • Help establish data standards, analytical methods, and decisioning best practices within the Risk team.

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Experience in fraud, risk, trust & safety, anti-money laundering (AML), or compliance analytics.
  • Strong proficiency in SQL and Python.
  • Experience performing deep analytical work and machine learning techniques related to regression, classification, experiment design, causal inference, or decision analysis.
  • Strong product and business judgement, with the ability to connect analytical work to customer outcomes, risk-related results, and company priorities.
  • Experience working with modern cloud data warehouses and related tools (e.g., Snowflake, dbt, etc.).
  • Excellent communication skills and the ability to translate complex analyses into clear business recommendations.
  • Proven ability to operate in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
  • Strong sense of ownership and the ability to challenge assumptions constructively.
  • Experience collaborating closely with cross-functional stakeholders to influence decisions.
  • Good judgement in choosing appropriate analytical tools for the problem at hand.
  • Interest in Bitcoin and familiarity with fintech, payments, crypto, or other regulated industries.

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Become an owner — All employees receive equity options as part of their total compensation.
  • Hit your goals — Annual salary reviews.
  • Health and well-being — Comprehensive medical and dental coverage, including health and wellness spending accounts.
  • Flexible remote work — Work from anywhere in Canada, with optional access to our Montreal and Toronto offices.
  • Develop your skills — Annual $2,000 budget for courses, certifications, and training.
  • Time off — 20 days of vacation per year. And if you use them all, we offer a $1,000 bonus.
  • Parental leave — Salary top-up up to 100% for 18 weeks.
  • Fun together — Quarterly team or company-wide retreats.

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Hard Skills & Tools
SQLPythonmachine learningregressionclassificationexperiment designcausal inferencedecision analysisdata analysisstatistical methods
Soft Skills
communication skillsanalytical skillsproduct judgementbusiness judgementownershipcollaborationinfluenceproblem-solvingadaptabilitycritical thinking