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Data Scientist at an EU-licensed crypto on/off-ramp.

Data Scientist reporting to the Head of Data. This role owns risk and fraud modelling across both sides of the business — direct retail customers and the partner-embedded flows that account for most of the firm's volume.

About the firm

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An EU-licensed crypto on/off-ramp. The firm serves both direct retail customers and platform partners that embed the firm's flows into their own products. Around 45 staff. Profitable since 2024 with steady volume growth as the EU regulatory environment has stabilised under MiCAR.

We name a client on the mandate page only where the firm has approved publication. Where not named, the description above is intended to be enough for a senior candidate to recognise whether their pattern fits the brief.

The brief

What this seat exists to do.

Data Scientist reporting to the Head of Data. Senior IC seat covering the firm's risk and fraud models.

Owns the model lifecycle end-to-end for the firm's onramp risk decisioning — segment, label, train, deploy, monitor. Works with engineering on model serving and with compliance on model governance.

Strategic moment: the firm is migrating from rules-led decisioning to a hybrid rules-plus-model stack. The DS is the named owner of that transition.

Remote within Europe. Some travel to the firm's Amsterdam and Lisbon offices each quarter.

What we are assessing for

  • A current data scientist at a regulated fintech or payments firm with verifiable production model deployments.
  • Strong working partnership with engineering and compliance — the seat does not get to publish papers in isolation; the work has to ship and survive examination.
  • Familiarity with the crypto-onramp risk surface: chain-analytics signals, mule patterns, and the fraud signatures specific to crypto purchasing flows.
  • Patterns: a senior DS from a peer crypto-onramp firm; a fraud DS from a regulated EU payments firm with crypto exposure; a senior IC from a chain-analytics firm with a crypto-fraud bench.
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This role owns risk and fraud modelling across both sides of the business — direct retail customers and the partner-embedded flows that account for most of the firm's volume. Owning both means a single modeller carries the direct retail side and the partner-embedded side in one remit, with the volume weighted toward the latter.

— Craig Oliver, Founder & CEO

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StatusLive · Open
IndustryDigital Assets
SenioritySpecialist
LocationEurope (Remote)
PartnerCraig Oliver
OpenedApr 2026
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