Data Scientist

Your benefits at Unite

Flexible working hours

Continuous learning

30+ vacation days

Remote working

Are you a passionate data scientist looking to make a big impact? Do you love squeezing information out of data to improve our business? Have you successfully applied and maintained machine learning methods operating on real-world data?
We're searching for a motivated and experienced data scientist to develop new machine learning algorithms and run them in our live system. You'll work in close coordination with our stakeholders to tackle exciting challenges. If you have experience in working with Statistics, Machine Learning or Algorithms, are familiar with Julia, R or Python, and are looking for a challenging role in our data science team, then we would like to talk with you!

Your role

Be a team worker: As a team within an agile environment, we work with a high degree of autonomy and strive to be a high-performing self-managed and self-organized team with a good spirit of collaboration and knowledge sharing.
Add value: You'll model, develop and maintain solutions that help optimise our business processes and help us to make better data-driven decision
Craftsmanship: You'll foster further development, maintenance and care for our existing models, algorithms and tools and ensure robust, reliable, clean and testable code
Shape our engineering culture: You'll contribute to cross-team initiatives to define guidelines, evaluate new technologies, and establish best practices
Cross-functional collaboration: You'll develop interfaces to other products for the integration of the machine learning models

Your qualifications

Your background: You have at least 3 years of experience in the field of machine learning, statistics, mathematics and software development
Agile mindset: You demonstrate excellent collaboration skills, especially in the context of the Agile methodology and working in distributed teams
Strategic thinking: You have the confidence and maturity to maintain and modernise our component in respect to our business
Innovation driven: You have the curiosity to create innovative solutions
Be on the pulse: You're committed to continuous learning and knowledge sharing; you keep up to date with the latest trends and technologies

Interested? Then apply directly.

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At Unite I am happy to strengthen the teamwork within our teams, to align their work with our strategy and to accompany and encourage personal development.

Jeremias, IT Chapter Lead

What you can expect from us

Be a part of our agile working style: Our open communication and quick decision-making processes allow our teams to work autonomously for the most part
We offer a flexible work location: You can work in one of our modern Unite offices or remotely – or even do a mix of both
Be an early bird or a night owl: You know when you do your best work – all we ask is that you check in with your team to coordinate your schedules and routines
Workation: You can work abroad for up to 2 months, which is a great way to extend your time away or visit your family and friends in other countries
Enjoy our Unite culture: We invite you to be yourself, join our table tennis league or online games and have fun
We think long-term: You can and absolutely should invest an average of 10% of your working time into self-education and your own further training – that’s why we are great believers in offering creative freedom. You’ll also get access to Udemy and our internal learning platform to grow your career
Use up-to-date technologies: Julia, R, Python, Java, AWS, Kafka, GitLab, Infrastructure as Code

We are Unite.

We connect the economy for sustainable business. Our trusted e-procurement platform, with its integrated Mercateo Marketplace and Procurement Portal, enables effortless sourcing and purchasing for B2B and public sector organisations. Bringing buyers and suppliers together for mutual benefit, we've established a solid foundation of fair competition and trustworthy partnerships. Our platform’s scalable infrastructure supports connections, business stability and a robust supply chain. We revolutionise e-commerce for B2B and the public sector by adding and sharing value for markets and communities.

Would you like to become a part of Unite?
We founded our company in 2000 and our headquarters is located in Leipzig, Germany. We operate in 12 European countries, with over 700 employees working both in-office and remotely. In 2023, we achieved revenue of €440,8 million.