Senior Data Scientist
Paymob
Data Science
Cairo, Cairo Governorate, Egypt
Posted on May 21, 2026
About Paymob
Paymob is a leading FinTech company revolutionizing payment solutions in the MENA region. At Paymob, we believe in enabling businesses to thrive by offering secure, innovative, and scalable tools that simplify payments for everyone.
We’re proud to power millions of transactions for some of the biggest names in the region, with a team of innovators spread across Egypt, UAE, KSA and Oman.
We foster a value driven culture focused on continuous learning, empowering our people, and collaborating as one global team to create real impact.
Job Purpose:
The role sits at the core of how we understand our products and our users. You'll work across product analytics, experimentation, and ML — and your work will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of merchants and consumers experience payments across the region.
RESPONSIBILITIES
Paymob is a leading FinTech company revolutionizing payment solutions in the MENA region. At Paymob, we believe in enabling businesses to thrive by offering secure, innovative, and scalable tools that simplify payments for everyone.
We’re proud to power millions of transactions for some of the biggest names in the region, with a team of innovators spread across Egypt, UAE, KSA and Oman.
We foster a value driven culture focused on continuous learning, empowering our people, and collaborating as one global team to create real impact.
Job Purpose:
The role sits at the core of how we understand our products and our users. You'll work across product analytics, experimentation, and ML — and your work will directly shape how hundreds of thousands of merchants and consumers experience payments across the region.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Product & event analytics: defining metrics, tracking user behavior, surfacing what actually matters
- A/B testing and experimentation: designing tests, analyzing results, feeding learnings back into product decisions
- ML models: churn, fraud signals, forecasting — things that have a real downstream impact
- Data modeling in dbt and contributing to our analytics infrastructure on Redshift
- Owning and evolving data products from automated insights, dashboards, mining and ad-hoc explorations.
- Close collaboration with Product, Engineering, and Growth in a scrum environment , you won't be working in a vacuum
- Mentoring teammates and contributing to how the data team’s operations, not just what it ships
- 2+ years in data analytics, data science or a related role
- Experience with product & event analytics tools : Amplitude, Mixpanel, Adjust, CleverTap
- Solid SQL and Python skills
- Strong working experience with BI tools: Superset, Tableau, Power BI
- Hands-on experience with dbt and data modeling best practices
- Basic data orchestration and cloud warehouse skills: Airflow, Redshift, or similar
- Understanding of classical ML models and time-series models
- Understanding of common statistical analyses
- Someone who communicates clearly, works well in agile/scrum teams, and doesn't need to be handed a problem statement
- Experience defining and working with OKR-driven metric frameworks and north star metrics at the product level
- Familiarity with growth modeling techniques such as user segmentation, propensity scoring, or lifetime value prediction.
- Prior experience in fintech, payments, or marketplace platforms
- Exposure to real-time or streaming data pipelines (Kafka, Spark, or similar)
- Exposure to ML platform tooling — feature stores, model registries, or experiment tracking (MLflow, Vertex AI, SageMaker)
- Experience contributing to or reviewing data science work in a peer-review or RFC-style process
- Understanding of privacy-preserving analytics techniques or experience working within regulated data environments
- Background in causal inference, uplift modeling, or advanced experimentation frameworks beyond standard A/B testing.
- We offer competitive compensation packages and performance driven incentive programs.
- We offer a flexible hybrid work model that supports both in office collaboration and remote productivity.
- We invest in continuous career coaching to support your growth and long-term development.
- We collaborate across borders, embracing diversity and shared success.