Data Analyst

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Badoo is expanding its analytical function again. We are looking for experienced analysts to be part of an established team. You will be joining a team of ten young, bright and savvy analysts and data scientists to work on a wide range of data challenges: evaluate product features, user behavioural pattern mining, A/B test results, PR materials and fun facts, revenue / user churn predictions, competitor reports, effect of marketing campaigns, social media data scraping and sentiment analysis (NLP), forecasting models and much, much more. If you want to work with some of the most exciting technologies for big data, this is your chance! We constantly review and extend our tool stack to remain current. Continuous learning is a crucial part of the job. We participate regularly in conferences, meetups, trainings and internal hackathons. If many of the following speak to you, we would like to hear from you!

Responsibilities/Job Role

Manipulate complex datasets using a range of tools such as Python, SQL, Hive and Spark

Deliver actionable insights to product, marketing, billing, engineering and operations teams

Perform analysis across a variety of data topics and help solve challenges such as  interpreting split test results, predicting user behaviours and finding top performing user segments

Take the lead on new exploratory research projects in a wide variety of areas

Contribute to ongoing infrastructure improvements, e.g. our Badoo Python library

Required Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Strong commercial experience querying, analysing and providing insights from large datasets (100 TB+), preferably in online/tech industry

Advanced SQL: analytic functions, performance tuning, data wrangling

Python: pandas, scikit-learn, statsmodels, IPython/JupyterData Visualisation: D3.js, matplotlib, seaborn, plotly, ggplot (any of the above)

Experience in A/B testing analysis: significance analysis, non-parametric methods, bootstrapping

Ability to engage well with other parts of the business such as developers, product managers and senior management

Experience in presenting findings to varying audiences (technical and non-technical stakeholders) and catering presentation style appropriately

A strong attention to detail and a clear and concise writing style

Desired Experience, Knowledge & Skills

Hadoop, Hive, Spark, Exasol R

MicroStrategy or other BI platform

Data Modeling

Machine Learning: predictive models (Regression, GLM, Bayes, GBDT), clustering, NLP

Version Control experience: Git, SVN

About Badoo

There's nothing ordinary about working at Badoo. We're just as social as our product and don't hide behind our computers. Innovation is key to what we do and since we're a rapidly growing start-up, things move fast. We're a diverse, international bunch and are based in amazing offices in Soho, with perks to match. 

Badoo is the largest dating network in the world. With 400 million users across 190 countries and 450 employees worldwide, Badoo provides the best technology for people to meet, because happiness is better shared. 

Each day more than 400,000 people sign up for a Badoo experience; users send over 350 million messages and 10 million photos are added to the Badoo platform.

Badoo is an equal opportunities employer. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, colour, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law.

The strength of our workforce is made up of people from diverse backgrounds. All individuals here will be treated in a fair and equal manner based on the principles of professional merit. We commit to making any and all reasonable adjustments to your working conditions if you are disabled or impaired. It is important to remember that although some disabilities are apparent, many widely occurring disabilities, such as mental ill-health, epilepsy, diabetes and dyslexia are often not immediately evident. We are keen that applicants who have an ongoing disability make us aware of this, so we can make sure we can provide the most appropriate help and support

Our Benefits

Private medical and dental insurance

Critical illness & travel insurance

Corporate gym membership

Eyecare vouchers

Gourmet meals each day

Unlimited drinks and snacks

Tastecard

Contributory pension scheme

Subsidised tube pass or bike

In-house massages & haircuts

Childcare vouchers