Job description
As the first Unified Growth Platform, Thirdwave empowers blockchain projects with the analytics and insights to understand their customers and the actions that accelerate their growth. We deliver the key infrastructure and tools to enable projects to control their destiny. We connect people to the projects, games, and communities they love.
Thirdwave is looking for a highly skilled Data Scientist to join our team. Our ideal candidate is someone with a strong analytical mindset, capable of leading advanced data analytics projects and contributing to the overall data science strategy. You like emerging technologies like Blockchains and are passionate about shaping the industry.
What you’ll achieve
As a Data Scientist at our startup, you will be pivotal in analyzing billions of blockchain wallets and tens of billions of transactions to derive actionable insights. You will develop and refine both descriptive statistics and predictive models, leveraging your expertise to understand complex blockchain ecosystems and drive data-informed decisions. With significant autonomy, you will have the opportunity to influence our product’s direction and contribute to the company's growth.
You’ll Also:
Building predictive and descriptive statistical models using financial data, such as Lifetime Value (LTV)
Deploying and maintaining models, code, and data pipelines for customer-facing applications
Collaborating closely with engineers and product teams to develop models that drive data-driven decisions
Enhancing our product offerings and identifying new growth opportunities
Optimizing models for performance and cost in distributed data warehouses
Conducting data mining on public data to extract actionable insights
Managing ETL connectors to ensure seamless data flow across systems
Guiding the development of visualizations to present data findings in an intuitive and accessible manner
About you
Fast learner, self-starter, go-getter, and intellectually curious
Strong communicator with the ability to think about data at scale and beyond individual record levels.
Passionate about Blockchain and have a fundamental understanding of protocol mechanisms.
Comfortable interacting with various APIs, and raw blockchain queries.
Minimum Qualifications
Proficient in building predictive and descriptive models with financial and blockchain data
Experience with distributed data warehouses (e.g., Snowflake, Redshift, or Spark) and optimizing models for performance and cost
Experience with DBT (Data Build Tool) for transforming data within data warehouses
Expertise in data mining and managing ETL processes
Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
Experience with data orchestration frameworks (e.g., Dagster, Luigi, or Prefect) and monitoring tools (e.g., Datadog)
Familiarity with cloud platforms (e.g., AWS) and databases (e.g., Postgres, Redis)
Ability to develop and deploy customer-facing applications and visualizations
Preferred Qualifications
Prior experience in the blockchain or fintech industries
Strong understanding of statistical and machine learning methodologies
Ability to work in a fast-paced startup environment and collaborate with cross-functional teams
Location
Flexible, Remote
What We Offer
Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family
Additional benefits to help care for your family such as flexible parental leave and fertility & adoption assistance
Unlimited PTO, including two recharge weeks (two company-wide weeks off, 13 paid holidays AND a $1000 vacation stipend once a year to spend on travel, etc.
Awesome Perks including a $200 monthly Wellness Stipend to support not just your 'health & fitness' but your general wellbeing, a $500 home office budget to get you set up at home, and a $125 monthly phone & internet stipend
Salary: $149,500 – $179,500 / yearOriginally posted on Himalayas
Who can apply
Eligible countries: United States. Accepted UTC offsets: UTC-10, UTC-9, UTC-8, UTC-7, UTC-6, UTC-5, UTC+14. Review the full description for employer-specific work authorization, residency and schedule requirements.