About komoot

Komoot is an app that lets you find, plan, and share adventures with its easy route planner. Driven by a love for nature and powered by the outdoor community’s recommendations, komoot helps you explore more of the great outdoors—wherever and however you want. And we're good at it. Google and Apple have listed us as one of their Apps of the Year numerous times. Today, with over 37 million users and 300,000 five-star reviews, we are well on our way to becoming the most popular app for finding, planning, and sharing adventures worldwide.

Join our remote-working team and start your adventure with komoot.

About the role

At komoot, data science is crucial to building an outstanding product for millions of users. Alongside engineers, analysts and another data science group we have created a central entity called Core. Its mandate is firstly: ownership over longer-running enablement projects that maximize impact company-wide; and secondly to support data science related tasks arising in other product squads. This squad of three is already making strides to advance AI capabilities across komoot by making use of enormous amounts of user-generated data (GPS traces, images, comments, etc.), plus external sources.

Do you like to submerge yourself in vast data sets and find simple and elegant solutions to a variety of tricky problems? Can’t wait to prototype and benchmark your ideas? Are you not content until you’ve implemented something and seen its impact? If this sounds like you, you’ll thrive in our team.

In this role, your work will be central to helping millions of people find an unforgettable adventure in the great outdoors. This is a full-time (40hrs/week) role and can be done from any location within the UTC-1 to UTC+3 timezone.

Ready for your next adventure?

What you’ll do

• Analyze and visualize internal and external data to derive insights and opportunities
• Discuss, exchange, evaluate, and challenge ideas with your teammates
• Devise, prototype, and systematically evaluate data solutions and algorithms
• Work on a variety of data problems, from standard model building to those that cannot be solved using traditional ML techniques
• Contribute towards turning proof of concepts into well-crafted and tested production code
• Develop short and long-term roadmaps with your team

Why you will love it

• Your work will contribute to helping millions of people enjoy lovely outdoor experiences.
• We’ve been a remote-working company since 2017, meaning: We are remote by default, have frameworks and systems in place, and know how to do it well.
• You’ll become an essential part of our diverse and international team with colleagues based in 15+ countries across Europe.
• 38 paid days off (inclusive public holidays) – you are free to take those days whenever it suits you, including a well-deserved winter holiday break.
• We love seeing people grow. That's why each team member gets €2,000 and 3 additional days to spend on professional development each year. Classes, conferences, books – your choice!
• Costs covered for your co-working space membership or your work-from-home office setup and the latest devices and equipment to do your best work.

You'll be successful in this role if you

• Are highly self-driven, responsible, and keen to learn and improve
• Are a strong team player and a strong communicator
• Have a passion for finding creative solutions and validating their merit
• Have 3+ years of professional experience in data science (model building)
• Have worked on a variety of data science projects in a professional setting
• Have professional experience in writing clean, tested and documented python code (e.g. for a REST API)
• Have knowledge in and excitement for math, statistics, machine learning, and data visualization
• Appreciate the outdoors, nature, and being active
• Bonus: Experience in applied research

Not sure if you meet all requirements above? Don't sweat it – if you think you're the right person anyway, we'd love to hear from you!

Curious about how we work?

• Core Communication time between 10 am - 3 pm (Berlin Time). We know people have different lifestyles, which is why we have flexible working hours with core time for synchronous interaction. You can organize your workday in the way that best suits you, your family, and your needs.
• We work on a project basis in cross functional teams to ensure that we collaborate on our goals, move forward smoothly with open lines of communication, and achieve results as a team.
• Every Monday morning, we have a whole-company presentation where you hear about projects across the business, inspire each other, and share great work.
• We connect in-person at three whole-company gatherings each year in beautiful locations. You can check out this playlist to find out more about how we stay close while being remote.
• We use tools like Trello, Slack, Miro, Zoom, and Google Drive on a daily basis to stay connected, collaborate easily, and manage projects.

Dive a little deeper and learn...

• More about our team here: Meet the Team
• More about how we work here: How We Work
• More about our recruitment process and FAQs here: FAQs

Please note

We support diversity and inclusivity and welcome all prospective applicants. We have a rolling recruitment process – if this role is online, it means it’s still open.

We are keen to discover more about you—your unique skills, experiences, and the personal flair you bring. While AI tools are impressive, we prefer your personal touch. Your own thoughts and words provide the best showcase of your strengths and communication skills. Let’s keep it human—no AI-generated responses, please!