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Takeaway.com

Senior Data Scientist

Takeaway.com

. Design and deploy real-time courier pay and boost algorithms balancing supply with delivery demand .

Posted 10/15/2026full-timeRemote • CanadaSeniorWebsite

Tech Stack

Tools & technologies
AWSBigQueryDynamoDBKafkaPythonSQL

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact
  • Design and deploy real-time courier pay and boost algorithms balancing supply with delivery demand
  • Build constrained optimization and machine learning models to maximize spend efficiency and earnings fairness
  • Lead causal inference and experimentation frameworks, including switchback and geo testing
  • Partner with Product and Tech to translate marketplace goals into scalable, low-latency production services
  • Monitor live model health, triage performance drift, and establish production fail-safes
  • Mentor team peers through code reviews and technical guidance

Requirements

What you’ll need
  • Proven hands-on experience developing machine learning models, dynamic pricing algorithms, or constrained optimization systems
  • Strong proficiency in Python and SQL
  • Experience shipping reliable models into production environments
  • Practical knowledge of causal inference and marketplace experimentation, including A/B and switchback test designs
  • Commitment to designing fair and transparent algorithmic incentives
  • Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills
  • Proven ability to leverage AI agents for data analysis, coding, code reviews, and technical workflows
  • Experience deploying and maintaining low-latency, real-time streaming ML systems (preferred)
  • Background in on-demand logistics, ride-hailing, food delivery marketplaces, or algorithmic revenue management (preferred)
  • Familiarity with Kafka, Google BigQuery, AWS S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis, or modern ML tracking platforms (preferred)
  • Experience with GPS traces, spatial indexing such as H3 or S2, and fine-grained time-series forecasting (preferred)

Benefits

Comp & perks
  • Fun, fast-paced and supportive culture
  • Inclusive culture focused on Inclusion, Diversity & Belonging
  • International impact and collaboration with well-known brands
  • Movement, growth and celebration of employees