Job Overview

Data Analyst – Data Science / Junior Data Scientist

About the job

Koko is a Buy Now Pay Later payment platform incubated under Daraz. Our mission is to bring seamless shopping and liquidity solutions to the 100+ million South Asians in Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Nepal who have bank accounts, but no do not have access to liquidity solutions.

We are passionate about empowering our customers by providing them with easy, interest-free payment plans. Koko will be completely free for customers who pay on time – helping people spend responsibly without incurring interest, fees, or extended debt. Koko empowers customers to access the things they want and need, while still allowing them to maintain financial wellness and control, by splitting payments in three, for both online and in-store purchases.

We are currently experiencing tremendous growth in Sri Lanka and have already made our first hires in Pakistan. We will be expanding to other South Asian markets in the very near future.

We are looking for Data Analysts / Junior Data Scientists to join our multinational team, primarily based in Colombo. These positions are housed in KoKo’s data science team, which has the initial mission of becoming South Asia’s market leader in default prediction. Over time, the team’s role will expand into anti-fraud, recommendation, search, user targeting and other online shopping linked data science topics. The Data Science team:

• Owns the KPI of converging the predicted default rate for a given user, at a given spending limit with the actual default rate.
• Helps develop and execute the data science roadmap, optimizing prioritization based on maximizing business KPIs while minimizing time/cost/complexity.
• Engage closely and collaboratively with commercial, data engineering, product and other internal teams to ensure seamless and timely data capture, storage and accessibility for predictive topics.
• Builds relationships with data providers, consultants, universities and other external partners to incorporate the latest data, knowledge and techniques.

We have a results driven culture based on technical nous, constant learning, creativity and hard-work. As a start-up we expect all team members to do whatever it takes for the Data Science team, others teams and KoKo as a whole to succeed.

We are looking for Data Analysts / Junior Data Scientists who will lead the Data Science team’s data pre-processing and data preparation functions. Successful candidates will have:

• Exceptional statistical, data-science or programming ability. Note non-traditional demonstrations of ability e.g. Kaggle scores are as highly regarded as traditional indicators, such as degree class.
• Proven interest in data science / ML and a keen interest in long-term career in DS / ML
• An interest in learning the latest generation of programming languages e.g Julia, GoLang is an advantage, as is exposure to Data Engineering.

KoKo is a start-up backed by the Alibaba Group. Successful candidates can expect unparalleled growth opportunities due to the combination of a start-ups breadth of exposure + access to Alibaba technology and knowledge.