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Flinks

API-based financial data aggregation for fintechs

Senior Data Scientist

Applied Machine LearningConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeRemote in CanadaNo salary listed

About the Job

Requirements

  • Six to eight years of experience building and shipping machine-learning models, including taking models to production independently.
  • A bachelor's degree in a quantitative field such as Computer Science, Statistics, or Applied Mathematics; a related field is also accepted.
  • Production-grade Python skills.
  • Ability to take a model to a live, monitored service independently.
  • A solid foundation in data science and machine learning.
  • Must be legally authorized to work in Canada.

Responsibilities

  • Own machine-learning models end to end, including framing the problem, writing the design or RFC, building and training the model, deploying it to a served endpoint, and monitoring its production quality.
  • Build the model's training pipeline and package it for serving on the shared platform operated by Data Engineering.
  • Monitor model drift and performance, and determine when models should be retrained.
  • Conduct rigorous evaluation, including experimental design, statistical validation, drift detection and retraining, champion-challenger evaluation, and model promotion.
  • Collaborate with Data Engineering, backend, product, and quality assurance teams on contracts, deployment, and rollout.
  • Develop models for transaction categorization, reversal and final-category detection, transaction named-entity recognition, payments risk and balance forecasting, income and employment-related enrichment, and model-quality monitoring.
  • Use AI-assisted development to accelerate implementation and experimentation, applying problem framing, system design, evaluation rigor, and clear technical specifications.

Desired Qualifications

  • A Master's or PhD degree.

About the Company

Flinks

API-based financial data aggregation for fintechs

Flinks provides an API that lets businesses access customers’ financial data from bank accounts to power fintech apps, identity checks, and transaction monitoring. It works by securely linking to end-users’ accounts and retrieving data the client can use for analytics, verification, and enrichment through its data-connectivity platform. The company stands out with a North American footprint and backing from the National Bank of Canada, which supports its expansion into the U.S. and strengthens its analytics offerings, focusing on data portability for financial services. Its goal is to scale API-driven access to financial data for fintechs and financial institutions across North America while ensuring compliant, seamless data connectivity.

Company size
51-200
Company stage
Acquired
Total funding
$116.7M
Headquarters
Montreal, Canada
Founded
2016

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