Ranked in **** by the Financial Times, Moniepoint is Africa's fastest-growing fintech, trusted by over 10 million business and individual accounts, processing billions of Naira in transactions monthly.
Ranked in **** by the Financial Times, Moniepoint is Africa's fastest-growing fintech, trusted by over 10 million business and individual accounts, processing billions of Naira in transactions monthly.
We're looking for a Data Scientist to sit at the heart of how we fight fraud — building the models, experiments, and detection systems that protect millions of customers and merchants across our platform.
This is a high-impact role at the intersection of machine learning, product, and engineering, where your work will directly shape how Moniepoint detects and responds to emerging fraud threats.
You are a data-driven, intellectually curious Data Scientist who is energized by hard problems in fraud and financial crime.
Prototype, evaluate, and help produce machine learning models for fraud detection; own their ongoing monitoring and retraining cycles.
Work closely with fraud operations,



engineers, product managers, and data analysts to translate model outputs into real?A strong foundation in statistics with a degree in a quantitative field (Statistics, Mathematics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar).
3+ years of experience in data science, decision science, or risk analytics within fraud, payments, or financial crime.
Hands?on experience building and deploying machine learning models in a production environment.
Solid grounding in data science fundamentals: experimentation, statistical inference, model evaluation, and feature engineering.
Proficiency in Python and SQL; An investigative instinct — you enjoy digging into data to find patterns others miss.
focused environment with an emphasis on knowledge sharing, training, and regular internal technical talks.
Compensation: You'll receive an attractive salary, pension, health insurance, annual bonus, plus other benefits.

📌 Data science expert. (Barcelona)
🏢 Moniepoint Group
📍 Barcelona