Junior Data Scientist vacancy at FACEIT

At FACEIT we have been working hard since 2012 to provide gamers all around the world with great competitive experiences for their favourite videogames. We develop unique products for players and game developers centred around establishing and building competitive communities and ecosystems for multiplayer videogames. Our online platform is today used by more than 15 millions of players and we are proud to work closely with multiple gaming publishers and developers to keep building the next generation of competitive experiences.

Responsibilities

Help us expand our existing reporting and dashboard solutions.
Design and perform statistical analysis which will help us understand our user base better and which will support the needs of our Product, Growth and Marketing teams.
Run ad-hoc queries against our data warehouse.
Work closely with various technical and non-technical business areas and make sure that strategic decisions are backed by the available data.

Requirements

Advanced SQL (common table extensions, window functions etc.) - any flavour will do;
Good knowledge of the Python data analysis toolkit (jupyter notebooks, numpy, pandas, matplotlib, plotly etc.). Knowledge of R / SaS / Stata will also be considered;
Solid understanding of basic statistics fundamentals and applications (such as designing and interpreting A/B tests, cohort analysis, t-tests, z-tests, hypothesis etc.);
Any experience with BI tools like Tableau/Looker and web analytics platforms like Mixpanel and Google Analytics;
Ability to quickly learn new concepts and apply them.

Skills considered as a good plus

Hands-on experience with cloud platform solutions like Google Cloud Platform (Compute Engine, BigQuery, Cloud Storage), or AWS (EC2, Redshift, Athena, S3);
Git for version control;
Linux/Unix experience and use of command line tools;
Passionate about learning new, cutting-edge technologies and finding applicable business cases as needed;
B.Sc . in applied statistics, mathematics, physics, data science, or a related discipline.
A passion for gaming.

Perks & Benefits

Lunch provided daily
Kitchen stocked with refreshments, cereals, bread, spreads (coffee machines everywhere – our founding team is Italian after all!);
Pension plan
Flexible working environment
Monthly drinks and dinner in the office;
Monthly massages;
Quarterly team outings;
5 a side twice monthly;
Your professional growth is important to us. We provide ongoing training opportunities;