About PhonePe Group:
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments company with 50 crore (500 Million) registered users and 3.7 crore (37 Million) merchants covering over 99% of the postal codes across India. On the back of its leadership in digital payments, PhonePe has expanded into financial services (Insurance, Mutual Funds, Stock Broking, and Lending) as well as adjacent tech-enabled businesses such as Pincode for hyperlocal shopping and Indus App Store which is India's first localized App Store. The PhonePe Group is a portfolio of businesses aligned with the company's vision to offer every Indian an equal opportunity to accelerate their progress by unlocking the flow of money and access to services.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! We empower people and trust them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one. If you like building technology that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Overview : We are looking to hire a dynamic seasoned data scientist with >6 years of experience. The candidate should be a go-getter and be willing to upskill regularly to address problem statements and also stay up to date with the state of the art ecosystem.
Role: End to end ownership of the data science workstreams for a business unit within PhonePe. The candidate will lead developments in some of the key data science initiatives for the org while mentoring junior data scientists within the team. He/she will be a thought leader within the larger organization of PhonePe and act as a data science evangelist.
Technical Skills:
- Strong grip on Spark, Python, and SQL.
- Hands-on in deploying models through MLFlow and orchestrating workflows through Airflow. Ability to write production-level code.
- Strong understanding of traditional ML algorithms and deep learning algorithms. Ability to explain the workings of these algorithms and tweak source code to fit our needs.
- Past experience in personalization at scale is a good experience to have.
- Experience in working in a product environment while building solutions that drive impact at scale (100 million+).
Soft Skills:
- Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into data science problem statements while identifying the right metrics to track.
- Ability to bring an outside-in perspective and drive the art-of-the-possible through data science in the business units.
- Ability to lead multiple work streams while focusing on hands-on development in a single workstream.
- Past product experience is good to have.
- Past experience in building and deploying deep learning solutions at scale is a good-to-have experience.