Data Scientist
Nine Elms, London - Full-time (4 days a week on-site)
As part of our vision, we are seeking a talented Data Scientist to join our dynamic, expanding team. Over the last few years we’ve built a solid data foundation using best in class technologies (dbt, BigQuery, Airflow) and are just at the start of our journey to leverage this data in a more sophisticated way.
Key Responsibilities:
Stakeholder Management: Help business leaders at Zapp understand and prioritise opportunities related to AI/ML
End-to-End Development and Ownership: Own the lifecycle of new models from concept to deployment and monitoring, and continuously iterate.
Reporting/Dashboarding
Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams to define, design, and implement new features, driving both business and technical excellence.
Code Quality: Write scalable, maintainable, and high-quality code while adhering to best practices for testing, deployment, and version control.
Essential skills:
Minimum of 1-2 years of professional experience as a Data Scientist in a commercial setting.
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field.
Expertise in Python and developing high-quality, scalable code Hands-on experience with cloud platforms like GCP, AWS, or Azure
Solid understanding of SQL
Familiarity with version control (Git) and automated deployment pipelines (CI/CD).
Desirable skills:
Experience with GCP/Vertex AI
Past work in retail demand forecasting
Experience working in a start-up environment
Benefits:
Competitive salary & equity package.
Enjoy 25 days of holiday per year (plus all bank holidays).
Private Health Insurance.
Extended sick pay and maternity/paternity leave pay.
Perkbox.
Cycle to work scheme.
Flexible/hybrid working arrangement (60:40 between office/home).
Founded in 2020, Zapp is London’s leading premium convenience delivery app, elevating the everyday lives of hundreds of thousands of Londoners. We leverage cutting-edge technology to anticipate customer needs – ensuring the most relevant products are always available, at the right location, at the right time.
From daily essentials to luxury favourites and pharmacy needs, our hand-picked product range showcases global icons and beloved local brands, available for delivery to customers' doors in minutes, 24/7.
We're on a long-term mission to bring technology to convenience retail, a $4 trillion global industry that remains largely offline. Our strategy is simple: build out the system in one of the world's largest megacities – London. We've witnessed significant demand (i.e. 'product-market fit') for on-demand convenience and have decided to focus on a large, profitable segment as we expand our system in the coming years: premium convenience.
Catering to premium, high-demand customers forces us to constantly innovate and encourage the standards of excellence across the board. We're excited to expand Zapp over the coming years and decades as we build the ‘need it now’ supply chain of the future.
Zapp is proud to be backed by some of the world's leading venture capital and growth equity investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners, as well as some of the most iconic figures of our generation, including Sir Lewis Hamilton.
Come and join our team of scale-up and exit experts from companies such as Amazon, Deliveroo, Selfridges and more.
