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title: 'Senior Data Scientist at Bitvavo'
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# Senior Data Scientist at Bitvavo

- **Company:** Bitvavo
- **Location:** Headquarters
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-09-23
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bitvavo/4b449e56-1fca-4814-b28a-d6242465cba1

## Job description

In 2018, Bitvavo launched the first version of its digital assets trading platform, to bridge the gap between traditional currencies and digital assets. By offering transparent fees, a wide range of assets and an easy to use platform, Bitvavo is making the currency of the future accessible for everyone.

In two years' time, Bitvavo has established itself as the market leader in the Netherlands and one of the largest in Europe, with over one million users exchanging tens of billions of digital assets a year.

## About the Opportunity

We are an exchange. The speed of good decisions matter in everything that we do. Our data domain is committed to making sure the decisions this business makes on spend, pricing, product, risk and financial crime rest on evidence rather than intuition. We're seeking exceptional talent to join us in making this a reality.

The Problems You'll Get to Solve

- Growth & causal inference. Measure true incrementality, own our marketing mix model, and turn that into spend allocation under a budget.
- Product & personalization. Rank and surface what is relevant to each customer's behaviour and holdings, from asset discovery to order form defaults, without drowning users in noise
- Markets, pricing & execution. Model fee and spread elasticity to find the revenue-versus-volume trade-off, and improve execution quality: slippage, order routing, liquidity provider selection.
- Risk & financial integrity. Model risk exposure across a volatile asset book, forecast liquidation risk, and detect reconciliation breaks across internal ledgers, on-chain data and partner reporting.
- Financial crime & compliance. Detect account takeover, payment fraud and mule networks in real time, combining business rules and models that work together while staying explainable and auditable.

## What You'll Be Doing

- Own problems end to end: frame the question with the stakeholder, build the model or experiment, ship it, and follow it into production.
- Work backwards from the decision. Start from what someone needs to decide and what it costs to get it wrong, not from the data that happens to be available.
- Stay accountable for your models once they are live: monitoring, drift, retraining, and the day they start behaving differently.
- Tell senior stakeholders things they do not want to hear, including that a campaign, a feature or a rule did not work.
- Support your teammates in growing every day by setting the standard for how we do causal inference, reviewing their work, and sharing knowledge.

## What We Look For

- Strong applied experience turning a messy business question into a model or a measurement: causal inference where that fits, predictive and ranking models where it does not. You know when a result is not real.
- Fluency in Python and SQL, and comfort working independently rather than waiting for data to be handed to you. We use Snowflake, dbt, Airflow and Looker, on top of technologies like MySQL, Druid, Kafka and Flink.
- A track record of models that made it into production and changed a decision, not just notebooks and slide decks.
- Sound statistical judgement, and the honesty to quantify and communicate uncertainty rather than hide it.
- Exceptional communication skills. We expect you to talk to various stakeholders to derive requirements, drive discussions, and facilitate decision-making processes effectively.
- Extraordinary sense of ownership. We are committed to empowering people with freedom and accountability.

Nice to have:

- Experience building with agentic tooling such as MCP or agent frameworks, or automation platforms like n8n.

At Bitvavo, we believe that diverse perspectives drive innovation, foster creativity, and lead to better outcomes. We are committed to building a team that reflects the diversity of the communities we serve and creating an inclusive environment where everyone can thrive. We welcome applicants of all backgrounds, identities, and experiences. Regardless of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, age, religion, ability, or any other characteristic. Join us and be part of a team that values and celebrates your unique contributions.

Bitvavo does not accept resumes from staffing, search, or recruitment firms without a signed agreement. If you send us a resume without such an agreement, we may contact the candidate directly without any obligation whatsoever and no fee of any kind will be paid should we hire the candidate.

## What We Offer

At Bitvavo, we believe in attracting, motivating and retaining talented people through market-competitive offerings that go beyond compensation alone. To learn more about our total rewards package and the benefits we offer, visit our Life at Bitvavo page.

## About Bitvavo

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bitvavo is a European cryptocurrency exchange platform that makes digital asset trading simple, secure, and transparent for retail and institutional customers.
- **Entity Type**: Private (funding stage not publicly disclosed)
- **Headquarters**: Amsterdam, Netherlands
- **Founded**: 2018
- **Founders**: Mark Nuvelstijn, Tim Baardse, Jelle de Boer

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Cryptocurrency exchange / digital asset trading
- **Target customers**: B2C (retail traders) and B2B (institutional investors); primarily European market
- **Mission or purpose**: To enable customers to outperform the traditional financial system by making crypto accessible to all — simple, secure, and transparent.

## Products & Services
- **Bitvavo Trading Platform**: A web and mobile app offering trading in 400+ cryptocurrencies (BTC, ETH, XRP, SOL, ADA, etc.) with transparent tiered fees (max 0.25%) and direct euro deposits via 8 payment methods.
- **Staking & Earn Program**: Allows users to earn passive returns on crypto holdings while retaining full access to their assets.
- **Bitvavo Account Guarantee**: Reimburses up to €100,000 for losses due to unauthorized account access.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: €100B+ assets managed, 2M+ active users across Europe, 500+ employees
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not publicly listed; Bitvavo is independently backed and regulated under MiCA by the Dutch AFM.
- **Growth Signals**: Licensed under the EU Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR) — the first major crypto exchange to hold a MiCA license; consistently ranked among top European crypto platforms; 4/5 Trustpilot rating from 17,600+ reviews.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Regulatory moat**: Fully authorized as a crypto-asset service provider under MiCA by the Autoriteit Financiële Markten (AFM), giving it a compliance edge in the EU.
- **Transparent low fees**: Maximum 0.25% trading fee with tiered discounts; no hidden costs.
- **Security & trust**: Strict segregation of customer funds, proof of reserves, and a €100,000 account guarantee.
- **Localized experience**: Dutch-founded, Amsterdam-based with a deep understanding of European regulatory and payment ecosystems.

## Strategic Focus
- Becoming the #1 consumer crypto exchange in Europe.
- Scaling responsibly through regulatory compliance, product innovation, and a hybrid work culture.
- Expanding staking and earn products to increase user engagement and retention.
- Building a high-performance engineering and product organization to maintain platform reliability and speed.

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Open, performance-driven, and growth-oriented with values like “Do the right thing, always”, “Take full ownership”, and “Win together”.
- **Work model**: Hybrid — balance between in-office collaboration (Amsterdam headquarters) and flexibility.
- **Benefits**: Competitive base salary + discretionary performance bonus + equity opportunities; fresh breakfast/lunch/snacks at the office; generous learning & development budget; flexible wellbeing budget; travel allowance or Swapfiets subscription; robust pension plan; fully covered OpenUp mental health subscription.
- **Relocation**: Full support for international hires — visa for family, flights, paid temporary housing, permanent housing search assistance, and administrative help (BSN, bank account, healthcare).
- **Events**: Regular team gatherings, pizza nights, themed dinners, and annual traditions like Vavoween (Halloween party) and Vavofest (company-wide celebration).

## Sources
1. [bitvavo.com](https://bitvavo.com/en/about) — Company overview, stats, founders, regulation
2. [bitvavo.com](https://bitvavo.com/en) — Product details, fees, security, Trustpilot rating
3. [jobs.bitvavo.com](https://jobs.bitvavo.com/about) — Culture, values, teams, mission
4. [jobs.bitvavo.com](https://jobs.bitvavo.com/life-at-bitvavo) — Benefits, relocation, events

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