Data Scientist (f/x/m)

spotixx is a Frankfurt-based European FinTech building technology for the regulated financial sector. Founded in 2019, we are a 60+ people team with deep, established relationships across the German and wider European banking sector, built on years of fraud investigation and insights work delivered inside major banks.

We are bootstrapped and set our own strategy and our own policies, without the compromises of chasing investor timelines. The market is moving toward us: European regulators are opening the door to cross-institutional financial crime intelligence, and we are scaling the team rapidly to meet strong inbound demand.

Tasks

We are looking for a hands-on Data Scientist who is passionate about applying machine learning to real-world financial crime problems. You enjoy working with complex transactional data, take ownership of models from idea to production, and care about building solutions that are not only accurate but also robust, explainable, and scalable. You are comfortable working in a fast-growing scale-up and collaborating closely with engineers and product teams.

Your responsibilities

Develop and improve ML models for fraud detection

Work on automated rule discovery and optimization for fraud detection

Explore transactional and behavioral data to identify suspicious patterns

Own feature engineering, model training, validation, and monitoring

Take models from prototype to production

Communicate results clearly to technical and business stakeholders