Data Scientist (Crypto)

The Tie is the leading information services provider for digital assets. We help businesses in the cryptocurrency industry act on market-moving information faster through our leading institutional data terminal - Tie Terminal - and our proprietary social sentiment, blockchain data, and news feeds. Our clients include leading hedge funds, trading venues, market makers, tokens issuers, and other digital asset market participants.

The Position

The Tie is seeking a Data Scientist with a strong foundation in Blockchain Data Engineering to identify and explore patterns in our proprietary datasets, source and diligence external datasets, and develop tools to help leading token issuers make more impactful data-driven decisions. The Tie is located in New York City. Applicants who can work in person are strongly preferred, but remote candidates will also be considered.

What You Will Work On

• Explore, visualize, and validate our proprietary cryptocurrency data sets, with a particular focus on those derived from on-chain data
• Develop cutting edge analytics and modeling methods to extract signal from raw on-chain data and translate it into actionable business insights
• Build data analytics and access infrastructure such as ETL pipelines and APIs
• Use our data and analytics tools to help some of the largest token-issuers optimize their decision-making
• Collaborate with our developers to source, research, test, and analyze new data sets to include in our suite of products
• Interface with our research analysts to write and contribute to both client-focused analytics and public-facing research report

Requirements

• You have a strong interest in data science, finance, and cryptocurrency. Prior professional experience in crypto and working with on-chain data is a huge plus
• You thrive in a fast-paced start-up environment where there are always new projects and challenges. While day-to-day responsibilities will revolve around data science, you will have the opportunity to learn different functional areas of the business working side-by-side with the founders and business partners, and interacting with customers
• You can use R or Python to clean and analyze data, build models, and present results with customized data visualizations
• You are proficient in data engineering workflows: able to construct complex data analysis and ETL tasks with tools such as SQL and DBT; able to utilize orchestration tools such as Serverless
• You write high quality code: it’s readable, efficient, and reusable
• You are creative, driven, and a self-starter, and will be able to work in both a team environment and independently towards solutions
• You have a consultative, client-driven work style and are an excellent communicator
• You have the versatility and curiosity required to rapidly learn new technologies

Benefits

• Employee stock option plan
• Health, dental, vision, and disability insurance
• Flexible paid time off
• Flexible working hours
• A fast-paced and exciting work environment
• Strong teamwork-driven culture