Lead Machine Learning Scientist, Search

1 month ago
Full-time
Lead
Data Science and Analytics
Monzo

Monzo

Monzo is a digital retail bank and fintech company that provides smart banking solutions through its smartphone app. With over 8 million users, Monzo offers intelligent notifications, instant balance updates, and financial management tools to help user...

Banks
1K-5K
Founded 2015
$1100M raised

Description

  • Lead the development and deployment of advanced machine learning models that solve real business problems.
  • Build and ship models that help customers search for and find answers about their financial lives.
  • Develop personalization, ranking, recommendation, and search systems that improve discovery and customer outcomes.
  • Use embeddings, contextual bandits, and other ML techniques to optimize real-time decisions and customer experiences.
  • Build scalable, explainable, and responsible AI solutions that improve trust and transparency.
  • Own the end-to-end path from business problem definition through to measurable impact in production.
  • Experiment with new technical approaches and justify their effectiveness with evidence.
  • Collaborate with backend, product, machine learning, and data science partners to deliver customer-facing solutions.

Requirements

  • Multiple years of experience leading the development and deployment of advanced machine learning models in a fast-moving tech environment.
  • Experience developing and shipping state-of-the-art ML models to production and delivering measurable business impact.
  • Strong ownership mindset with the ability to take a business problem from idea through to production impact.
  • Fluency in Python and extensive hands-on experience with scikit-learn.
  • Comfort working with SQL.
  • Willingness to learn Go, which is used in many of Monzo's backend microservices.
  • Experience working effectively through ambiguity and helping teams and stakeholders resolve it.
  • A product mindset with focus on customer outcomes and data-informed decision making.
  • Ability to communicate machine learning ideas clearly to non-specialists.
  • Nice-to-have experience in personalization, ranking, and recommendation problems for consumer applications.
  • Nice-to-have commercial experience writing critical production code and working with microservices.

Benefits

  • £115,000 - £150,000 salary.
  • Incentive awards tied to performance.
  • Benefits package.
  • UK-based flexible location options: London, Cardiff, or remote.
  • Average interview process of 3-4 weeks, scheduled around candidate availability.
  • Equal opportunities and inclusive hiring practices.

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