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# About Komoot\nKomoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures. Driven by a desire to explore, and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, it’s Komoot’s mission to inspire great adventures making them accessible to all. And we’re good at what we do: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times!\n\nToday, with over 23 million users and 100,000 five-star reviews, Komoot is well on its way to becoming the most popular cycling and hiking app for people who love adventures worldwide.\n\n**Join our fully remote team and change the way people explore!**\n\n\n**About the role**\nWe are now experiencing an accelerated growth and we're looking for an experienced Data Scientist dedicated to improving the product experience. As a young tech company, we know how user engagement can be boosted by personalisation, recommendations, user-segmentations and smart retention hooks. Using a wide range of different data sets, from common analytics/product data to unusual data sets like GPS recording and social relations, you will drive product enhancements forward that will directly impact 23 million users.\n\nWe believe that innovations based on data science will reinforce and extend our leadership in the outdoor market and your role will be decisive for komoot's success.\n\n**Ready for your next adventure?**\n\n\n**What you will do**\n- Work on a wide range of data science projects: Examples include improving the ranking and composition of our feed, bringing our follower recommendations to the next level and helping us keep users engaged.\n- Turn your ideas into data products ready for our production systems.\n- Deploy and monitor your code in our AWS Cloud (you can count on the support of experienced backend engineers).\n- Work with the Python Data Science Stack and a modern AWS infrastructure.\n- Identify how to best leverage our data to improve our platform.Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities and road maps.\n\n\n**Why you will love it**\n- You will deal with a diverse set of data (location data, social network, user content (images, text), external data sources like OSM, product analytics, ...).\n- You will go beyond prototyping and ship your code to production\n- You will contribute to a product with a vision to inspire more people to go outdoors.\n- You will work in a fast-paced startup with strongly motivated and talented co-workers.\n- You will enjoy the freedom to organize yourself the way you want .\n- We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, coworking center of your choice, or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3.\n- You will travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides.\n\n\n**You will be successful in this position if you**\n- Have a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions to complex problems\n- Have a solid understanding of math and statistics\n- Have 3+ years of industry experience in data science\n- Master Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn and XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost\n- Bonus: TensorFlow, Keras or PyTorch\n- Know SQL\n- Love to write clean, maintainable and tested Python code\n- Have experience productionising your data science solutions\n- Have strong communication and team skills\n- Have a hands-on attitude and are highly self-driven\n- Bonus: Know statically typed languages such as Kotlin/Java/C or Go\n- Bonus: Have cloud experience (e.g. with AWS)\n- Bonus: Have BigData experience (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hadoop)\n\n\n**Curious to find out more about our recruitment process?**\n- Find out more info here: https://www.komoot.com/jobs-process\n- At komoot we want to make great adventures accessible to everyone. We support diversity and inclusivity within the outdoors and welcome all prospective applicants.\n- We have a rolling recruitment process. If this role is online it means it’s still open. We’re accepting applications and actively looking for the perfect candidate. Is it you?\n\n\n**Perks**\n- Dedicated time and budget to spend on classes, events, conferences, boot camps, or books for your curiosity and personal development, you decide!\n- Blinkist subscription and discounts with outdoor brands like Patagonia and Wahoo\n- Flexible working hours and locations\n- 3 all- expenses paid Company gatherings per year\n- The latest devices and equipment\n- And more! \n\nPlease mention the words **INFANT GENIUS SLIM** when applying to show you read the job post completely (#RMjE2LjczLjIxNi4yMw==). This is a feature to avoid spam applicants. Companies can search these words to find applicants that read this and see they're human.\n\n \n\n#Location\nEurope, Africa

\nMillions of people experience real-life adventures with our apps. We help people all over the world discover the best hiking and biking routes, empowering our users to explore more of the great outdoors. And we’re good at it: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times and, with more than 12 million users and 100,000 five-star reviews, komoot is on its way to becoming one of the most popular cycling and hiking apps. Join our fully remote team of 60+ people and change the way people explore!\n\nTo help us grow, we’re looking for an experienced data scientist dedicated to improving our product experience. As a young tech company, we know how user engagement can be boosted by personalisation, recommendations, user-segmentations and smart retention hooks. Using a wide range of different data sets, from common analytics/product data to unusual data sets like GPS recording and social relations, you will drive product enhancements forward that will directly impact 12 million users.\n\nWe believe that innovations based on data science will reinforce and extend our leadership in the outdoor market and your role will be decisive for komoot’s success.\n\nWhat you will do\n\n\n* Work closely with our backend, web and mobile developers, designers, copywriters and product managers\n\n* Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities and road maps\n\n* Investigate and evaluate data science approaches for product enhancements\n\n* Turn prototypes into production systems by writing clean and maintainable code\n\n* Deploy and monitor your code in our AWS Cloud (you can count on the support of experienced backend engineers)\n\n\n\n\nWhy you will love it\n\n\n* You will be challenged with a wide range of data science tasks (e.g. optimise ranking/composition of a feed, recommend users to follow, churn prediction, personalisation, ...)\n\n* You will deal with a diverse set of data (location data, social network, user content (images, text), external data source like OSM, product analytics, ...)\n\n* You will go beyond prototyping and ship your code to production\n\n* You will contribute to a product with a vision to inspire more people to go outdoors\n\n* You will work in a fast-paced startup with strongly motivated and talented co-workers\n\n* You will enjoy the freedom to organize yourself the way you want \n\n* We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, coworking center of your choice, our HQ in Potsdam or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3\n\n* You will travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides\n\n\n\n\nYou will be successful in this position if you\n\n\n* Have a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions to complex problems\n\n* Have a solid understanding of math and statistics\n\n* Have 3+ years of industry experience in data science\n\n* Master Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn and XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost\n\n* Bonus: TensorFlow, Keras or PyTorch\n\n* Know SQL\n\n* Love to write clean, maintainable and tested Python code\n\n* Have experience productionising your data science solutions\n\n* Have strong communication and team skills\n\n* Have a hands-on attitude and are highly self-driven\n\n* Bonus: Know statically typed languages such as Kotlin/Java/C or Go\n\n* Bonus: Have cloud experience (e.g. with AWS)\n\n* Bonus: Have BigData experience (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hadoop)\n\n\n\n\nSounds like you?\n\nThen send us the following:\n\n\n* Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience\n\n* A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot\n\n* Examples of your work (e.g. GitHub Repositories, PDFs, Slideshare, etc.)\n\n* Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your Twitter/Instagram account, a blog or something else\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Data Science, Senior, English, Cloud, Math, Python, Travel, Mobile, Backend and Non Tech jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nMillions of people experience real-life adventures with our apps. We help people all over the world discover the best hiking and biking routes, empowering our users to explore more of the great outdoors. And we’re good at it: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times – and, with more than 12 million users and 100,000 five-star reviews – komoot is on its way to become one of the most popular cycling and hiking apps. Join our fully remote team of 60+ people and change the way people explore! To help us continue to grow, we ‘re looking for an experienced backend developer with knowledge in data science. Komoot possesses a unique dataset of user-generated content, ranging from GPS data from tours, uploaded photos, and tips, to implicit and explicit user feedback. To get the biggest value from this raw data, we need your excellent software and analytical skills. The challenges include automatic evaluation and classification of our user-generated content as well as innovative approaches to assembling them into consumable inspiration for users (e.g. auto-generated tour suggestions tailored to users’ sport and location). You’ll wrap up your algorithms into clean and scalable microservices in our modern cloud environment. We believe that innovations based on data science will reinforce and extend our leadership in the outdoor market and your role will be decisive for komoot’s success.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYour key responsibilities\n\n\n\n* You’ll be challenged with a wide range of tasks for which there are no standard solutions\n\n* You’ll have full ownership: from concept, prototypes, and building, to deploying and monitoring\n\n* You’ll deal with diverse datasets (location data, social network, user content (images, text), external data sources like OSM, product analytics, ...)\n\n* You’ll contribute to a product with a vision to inspire more people to go outdoors\n\n* You’ll work in a fast-paced startup with strongly motivated and talented co-workers\n\n* You’ll enjoy the freedom to organize yourself the way you want\n\n* We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, a coworking center of your choice, our HQ in Potsdam or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3\n\n* You’ll travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWhy you will love it\n\n\n\n* Work closely with our data scientists, web and mobile developers, designers, copywriters and product managers\n\n* Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities and road maps\n\n* Investigate and evaluate data science approaches for product enhancements (you can count on the support of experienced data scientists)\n\n* Turn prototypes into resilient and scalable REST APIs and background workers\n\n* Deploy and monitor your code in our AWS Cloud\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nYou will be successful in this position if you\n\n\n\n* Have a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions to complex problems\n\n* Have 3+ years of professional experience in backend development in the cloud\n\n* Have 2+ years of professional experience in Kotlin/Java/Scala\n\n* Have 2+ years of professional experience in Python\n\n* Know SQL and NoSQL\n\n* Have a solid understanding of math and statistics\n\n* Have a solid understanding of data science fundamentals\n\n* Master Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn\n\n* Bonus: BigData experience (Spark, Presto, Hadoop)\n\n* Bonus: Infrastructure as Code\n\n* Bonus: Deployment, CI and monitoring\n\n* Have strong communication and team skills\n\n* Have a hands-on attitude and are highly self-driven\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSounds like you?\n\n\nSend us the following\n\n\n* Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience\n\n* A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot\n\n* Examples of your work (e.g. GitHub Repositories, PDFs, Slideshare, etc.)\n\n* Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your Twitter/Instagram account, a blog or something else\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Data Science, Senior, Backend, Developer, Digital Nomad, English, Cloud, Math, Travel and Mobile jobs that are similar:\n\n $67,500 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n

\nMillions of people experience real-life adventures with our apps. We help people all over the world discover the best hiking and biking routes, empowering our users to explore more of the great outdoors. And we’re good at it: Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times and, with more than 12 million users and 100,000 five-star reviews, komoot is on its way to becoming one of the most popular cycling and hiking apps. Join our fully remote team of 60+ people and change the way people explore!\n\nTo help us grow, we’re looking for an experienced data scientist dedicated to improving our product experience. As a young tech company, we know how user engagement can be boosted by personalisation, recommendations, user-segmentations and smart retention hooks. Using a wide range of different data sets, from common analytics/product data to unusual data sets like GPS recording and social relations, you will drive product enhancements forward that will directly impact 12 million users.\n\nWe believe that innovations based on data science will reinforce and extend our leadership in the outdoor market and your role will be decisive for komoot’s success.\n\nWhat you will do\n\n\n* Work closely with our backend, web and mobile developers, designers, copywriters and product managers\n\n* Discuss product improvements, technical possibilities and road maps\n\n* Investigate and evaluate data science approaches for product enhancements\n\n* Turn prototypes into production systems by writing clean and maintainable code\n\n* Deploy and monitor your code in our AWS Cloud (you can count on the support of experienced backend engineers)\n\n\n\n\nWhy you will love it\n\n\n* You will be challenged with a wide range of data science tasks (e.g. optimise ranking/composition of a feed, recommend users to follow, churn prediction, personalisation, ...)\n\n* You will deal with a diverse set of data (location data, social network, user content (images, text), external data source like OSM, product analytics, ...)\n\n* You will go beyond prototyping and ship your code to production\n\n* You will contribute to a product with a vision to inspire more people to go outdoors\n\n* You will work in a fast-paced startup with strongly motivated and talented co-workers\n\n* You will enjoy the freedom to organize yourself the way you want \n\n* We let you work from wherever you want, be it a beach, the mountains, your house, coworking center of your choice, our HQ in Potsdam or anywhere else that lies in any time zone situated between UTC-1 and UTC+3\n\n* You will travel together with our team to amazing outdoor places several times a year to exchange ideas, learnings and go for hikes and rides\n\n\n\n\nYou will be successful in this position if you\n\n\n* Have a passion for finding pragmatic and smart solutions to complex problems\n\n* Have a solid understanding of math and statistics\n\n* Have 3+ years of industry experience in data science\n\n* Master Jupyter, pandas, NumPy, matplotlib/seaborn, scikit-learn and XGBoost/LightGBM/CatBoost\n\n* Bonus: TensorFlow, Keras or PyTorch\n\n* Know SQL\n\n* Love to write clean, maintainable and tested Python code\n\n* Have experience productionising your data science solutions\n\n* Have strong communication and team skills\n\n* Have a hands-on attitude and are highly self-driven\n\n* Bonus: Know statically typed languages such as Kotlin/Java/C or Go\n\n* Bonus: Have cloud experience (e.g. with AWS)\n\n* Bonus: Have BigData experience (e.g. Spark, Presto, Hadoop)\n\n\n\n\nSounds like you?\n\nThen send us the following:\n\n\n* Your CV in English highlighting your most relevant experience\n\n* A write-up explaining who you are and why you are interested in working at komoot\n\n* Examples of your work (e.g. GitHub Repositories, PDFs, Slideshare, etc.)\n\n* Feel free to send us something that shows us a little more about what you’re interested in, be it your Twitter/Instagram account, a blog or something else\n\n\n \n\n#Salary and compensation\n No salary data published by company so we estimated salary based on similar jobs related to Data Science, Senior, English, Cloud, Math, Python, Travel, Mobile, Backend and Non Tech jobs that are similar:\n\n $70,000 — $120,000/year\n
\n\n#Benefits\n 💰 401(k)\n\n🌎 Distributed team\n\n⏰ Async\n\n🤓 Vision insurance\n\n🦷 Dental insurance\n\n🚑 Medical insurance\n\n🏖 Unlimited vacation\n\n🏖 Paid time off\n\n📆 4 day workweek\n\n💰 401k matching\n\n🏔 Company retreats\n\n🏬 Coworking budget\n\n📚 Learning budget\n\n💪 Free gym membership\n\n🧘 Mental wellness budget\n\n🖥 Home office budget\n\n🥧 Pay in crypto\n\n🥸 Pseudonymous\n\n💰 Profit sharing\n\n💰 Equity compensation\n\n⬜️ No whiteboard interview\n\n👀 No monitoring system\n\n🚫 No politics at work\n\n🎅 We hire old (and young)\n\n