What we do At Tuza, we've raised $7m from leading investors (Northzone, Connect Venture) to build the exchange for payments. We build technology to connect thousands of small businesses to financial service providers (Worldpay, Barclaycard, Revolut) in a way that is quicker, easier and fairer. Tuza today… Comparison Engine as our wedge product Our initial go-to-market product is a comparison engine, which helps small businesses find the best rates for card processing. This has enabled us to obsessively iterate and build a product loved by our small business customers. The Distribution Rail for Acquirers You may not know this, but we’re replacing legacy payment field sales with intelligent, digital acquisition channels powered by our intelligent pricing and onboarding technology. It converts better, costs less, prices more fairly, and delivers a better user experience to small businesses. Tuza tomorrow The User Experience Layer for Business Finance Tuza will be the central interface through which small businesses discover, onboard, and manage financial services, starting with payments, expanding into the whole business finance stack. A Unified Data Infrastructure We will build an open-standard data platform to access Tuza’s knowledge graph, combining behavioural data with live transaction data to tell the most accurate story of a business’s life cycle. The App Store moment for Business Finance Tuza will become the platform on top of which financial service providers will build and launch novel financial products. Tuza will be the default go-to-market engine due to our cross-market data layer. Your role at Tuza As our first data hire, you’ll be tasked with designing, building and owning our data stack. You’ll also be responsible for applying your expertise in quantitative analysis to understand how our users behave. Your insights will feed into data products that you’ll own, as well as into our wider product strategy. In your first month, you could explore: Transaction data to recognise tendency, temporal or spatial patterns. Mine KYC and KYB signals from structured and unstructured data to inform onboarding, pricing, and underwriting decisions. Build risk insights by combining onboarding data with in-life behaviour to detect anomalies and automate interventions. Design dynamic pricing models that personalise payment pricing based on business usage, risk, and segment. Launch product recommendation logic that serves merchants contextual bundles at the right moment in their lifecycle. Benchmark provider performance to show which of our partners are outperforming across time to board, churn, and margin. Create intelligent and personalised user experiences based on customer context to increase business-product fit and reduce time to conversion. By the end of your first sprint, you will likely have built at least one data project live in production, in use by some of the UK’s largest banks and 1000s of their small business customers. You’ll have direct exposure to some of the world's largest acquiring banks (Worldpay, Barclaycard, Natwest Revolut) to test large data sets and iterate on data products to serve small businesses better. You’ll report directly to Tuza’s CEO and CTO and work alongside a team of ex-founders and founding employees. You’re a great fit if You have a solid knowledge of data science. You work end-to-end - you can design, engineer and maintain our data stack. You’ve had exposure to a previous high-performance environment - this may be another startup backed by tier 1 investors, but it could just as easily be a competitive hobby. You know what good engineering practices look like - we need you to work with our engineering team to integrate your insights into our products. You find the extensive breadth and ambiguous nature of this role inspiring. You’re a bad fit if You lack genuine interest in the data - we want you to be obsessed. You’re unopinionated on what you work on - we want you to care. You’re not interested in the commercial context or wider business strategy. The Interview Process There are three stages: Initial Call with our CTO Take-Home Technical Assessment Technical Workshop Our aim is to get candidates through the application process from start to finish within 2 weeks of applying, in order to strike the balance of being respectful towards your time, whilst helping us maintain our high expectations. What’s in it for you A competitive salary with generous equity. A hybrid working approach. We're based out of our Shoreditch office, with Monday and Thursday as core collaboration days. The remaining days are focus days - based wherever you work best. Flexible working hours. Most people arrive between 8 and 10, and leave between 6 and 7. Unlimited holiday with a minimum of 24 days. Macbook Pro, monitor, mouse and keyboard. £350 a year towards taking a break. £350 a year towards learning, development or a hobby. Team offsites around the world (We’ve been to Morocco, Istanbul and Switzerland). Smart and kind teammates - leave your ego at the door. The occasional soundbath