Data Scientist, Delivery

Join Bolt as a Data Scientist, Delivery

Bolt is seeking an experienced Data Scientist to enhance our Bolt Food delivery process. As a rapidly growing tech company in Europe and Africa, Bolt serves over 150 million customers across 50+ countries. We are on a mission to make cities for people, not cars, and we need your expertise to achieve this vision.

About the Role

In this role, you will:

• Develop models to estimate food preparation times at various stages of the order process.
• Create complex demand forecasting pipelines for Bolt Market dark stores.
• Conduct simulations to assess the impact of market conditions on business metrics.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Data Analysts, Data Engineers, Product Managers, and Software Engineers, to understand business needs and deliver end-to-end technical solutions.
• Deploy and validate solutions for millions of users, ensuring fast feedback and measurable value.
• Utilize AWS and internal machine learning platforms for rapid model deployment, using tools like Python, Spark, Presto, Docker, SageMaker, and Airflow.
• Engage in knowledge exchange with Data Scientists across all levels to foster a collaborative and innovative environment.
• Solve real-world problems in areas such as ranking, textual search, recommendation, user clustering, pricing, delivery time estimation, dispatching, and demand/supply balancing.
• Apply advanced techniques like deep learning, gradient boosting, causal inference, mathematical optimization, dimensionality reduction, and time series forecasting.

About You

• You have 3 years of experience in Data Science and Machine Learning, preferably in product development within a tech company.
• Proficient in Python programming, with experience in libraries such as Pandas, NumPy, scikit-learn, and OR-tools.
• Skilled in statistical hypothesis testing.
• Proactive and able to work independently, with a strong ability to collaborate across product, analytics, and engineering teams.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills in English.
• Experience in building ML systems from end to end, including testing, monitoring, scaling, and impact measurement.
• Bonus points for experience in product development, familiarity with cloud systems, or experience with regression tasks and complex experimentation.

Why You'll Love It Here

• Play a direct role in shaping the future of mobility.
• Impact millions of customers and partners in 600+ cities across 50+ countries.
• Work in fast-moving autonomous teams with some of the smartest people in the world.
• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock option package.
• Benefit from a hybrid work mode with a minimum of 2 days in the office each week.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.

Join us at Bolt and be part of a team that is transforming urban mobility. If you are driven, intelligent, and have integrity, we encourage you to apply even if you don't meet every requirement.