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Machine Learning/ NLP Engineers

Mumbai, India

WHO WE ARE:

TIFIN is a fintech platform backed by industry leaders including JP Morgan, Morningstar, Broadridge, Hamilton Lane, Franklin Templeton, Motive Partners and a who’s who of the financial service industry. We are creating engaging wealth experiences to better financial lives through AI and investment intelligence-powered personalization. We are working to change the world of wealth in ways that personalization has changed the world of movies, music and more but with the added responsibility of delivering better wealth outcomes.

We use design and behavioral thinking to enable engaging experiences through software and application programming interfaces (APIs). We use investment science and intelligence to build algorithmic engines inside the software and APIs to enable better investor outcomes.

In a world where every individual is unique, we match them to financial advice and investments with a recognition of their distinct needs and goals across our investment marketplace and our advice and planning divisions.

OUR VALUES: Go with your GUT

● Grow at the Edge. We are driven by personal growth. We get out of our comfort zone and keep egos aside to find our genius zones. With self-awareness and integrity we strive to be the best we can possibly be. No excuses.

●Understanding through Listening and Speaking the Truth. We value transparency. We communicate with radical candor, authenticity and precision to create a shared understanding. We challenge, but once a decision is made, commit fully.

●I Win for Teamwin. We believe in staying within our genius zones to succeed and we take full ownership of our work. We inspire each other with our energy and attitude. We fly in formation to win together.

Responsibilities:  

• Drive the research and innovation in a result-oriented direction. 
• Stay up to date with the latest research trends, have a high level of curiosity and keep exploring advancements in NLU and their applications in conversational AI. 
• Mentor other team members during the experimentation phase and help them narrow down the inconclusive direction. 
• Come up with ideas to improve NLU capabilities using transfer learning from historical conversational data. 
• Benchmark the prototype on Data to gain the required precision. 
• Perform in-depth analysis of failure points of the algorithm on different environments. 
• Foresee data requirements for future research projects and come up with innovative approaches for data generation. 
• Scale models for multiple domains with the help of DevOps, backend and frontend teams. 
• Publish and present successful research in relevant journals and conferences. 

Requirements: 

• Experience with training and fine-tuning machine learning models on large text datasets. 
• Strong computer science fundamentals and 3+ years of software development experience. 
• Track record of thinking big and finding simple solutions while dealing with ambiguity. 
• Proven experience as a Natural Language Processing Engineer or other similar roles. 
• Good understanding of Natural Language Processing tricks and techniques for semantic extraction, data structure, and modelling. 
• Understanding of text representation techniques, algorithms, and statistics Familiarity with R language, Python, and Java. 
• Good knowledge of Machine Learning frameworks such as eras, PyTorch, etc. 
• Ability to code and design software architectures. 
• Problem-solving abilities, communication skills, and analytical mind.
• Proven and successful experience on at least one of the projects amongst information retrieval, machine comprehension, entity recognition, text classification, semantic frame parsing or machine translation. 
• Relevant publications, patents or talks delivered at reputed conferences are a bonus. ∙

Work Ex: 4+ years

BENEFITS PACKAGE:

TIFIN offers a competitive benefits package that includes:

·         Performance Linked variable compensation.

·         Medical insurance

·         Tax-saving benefits

·         Flexible PTO policy and Company-paid holidays

·         Parental Leave: 6 months paid maternity,

2 weeks paid paternity Leave

A note on location. While we have team centres in Boulder, New York City, San Francisco, Charlotte, and Bangalore, this role is based out of Mumbai.  

TIFIN is proud to be an equal-opportunity workplace and values the multitude of talents and perspectives that a diverse workforce brings. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, national origin, religion, age, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or protected veteran status.

Lifespark is looking for individuals with a passion for impacting real lives through technology. Lifespark is one of the most promising startups in the Assistive Tech space in India, and has been honoured with several National and International awards. Our mission is to create seamless, persistent and affordable healthcare solutions. If you are someone who is driven to make a real impact in this world, we are your people.

Lifespark is currently building solutions for Parkinson’s Disease, and we are looking for a ML lead to join our growing team. You will be working directly with the founders on high impact problems in the Neurology domain. You will be solving some of the most fundamental and exciting challenges in the industry and will have the ability to see your insights turned into real products every day

Essential experience and requirements:

1. Advanced knowledge in the domains of computer vision, deep learning

2. Solid understand of Statistical / Computational concepts like Hypothesis Testing, Statistical Inference, Design of Experiments and production level ML system design

3. Experienced with proper project workflow

4. Good at collating multiple datasets (potentially from different sources)

5. Good understanding of setting up production level data pipelines

6. Ability to independently develop and deploy ML systems to various platforms (local and cloud)

7. Fundamentally strong with time-series data analysis, cleaning, featurization and visualisation

8. Fundamental understanding of model and system explainability

9. Proactive at constantly unlearning and relearning

10. Documentation ninja - can understand others documentation as well as create good documentation

Responsibilities :

1. Develop and deploy ML based systems built upon healthcare data in the Neurological domain

2. Maintain deployed systems and upgrade them through online learning

3. Develop and deploy advanced online data pipelines

About the Role 

Hey there! Are you a mastermind looking for your next big challenge? If so, we want you to join our team as our VP of Engineering! We're looking for someone who's driven, experienced, and ready to lead the charge for our tech products and solutions. As the VP, you will manage a team of developers, identify new technologies and implement them to drive business results. 

But it's not all about tech - you'll also be working closely with our core team to make sure we're meeting the needs of the market. Basically, you'll be a jack-of-all-trades when it comes to our tech and make sure we're always ahead of the game. So, if you're ready to take your career to the next level and make a real impact, hit us up! 

We can't wait to see what you bring to the table. 

What You'll Do 

• Lead the development team and ensure projects are completed smoothly and on  schedule 

• Stay ahead of the game by finding and using new technologies to boost the business 

• Work hand in hand with the core team to figure out their needs and keep our products on point with the market trends 

• Keep our products high-quality, scalable, and secure 

Develop and maintain a detailed project plan to track progress and ensure that projects are completed on time and within budget 

• Brainstorm and plan the company's tech strategy with the CTO and other important leaders 

• Keep up to date with the latest tech trends and find new growth opportunities 

• Give the development team technical guidance and be a mentor to them 

What You'll Bring 

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering or a related field 

• A 8+ years of experience leading software development teams, with a track record of delivering complex products 

• Technical know-how and experience with the latest software development tech 

• Proven experience in identifying and implementing new technologies to drive business  results 

• Experience handling the challenges and taking advantage of the opportunities that come with working in a startup environment 

• Ace leadership, communication, and teamwork skills 

• Self-starter with loads of drive and a desire to make things happen 

What we would also love to see 

• Understand the mobile development landscape especially Android and iOS 

• Hands-On experience with API based development 

IT Senior Manager Requirements:

• A bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field.

• A master's degree in computer science is preferred.

• Proof of continued education, such as software certifications, is desirable.

• Experience with ERP, CRM, Business Intelligence, Warehouse Management (WMS)/Supply Chain Management (SCM), Cloud Storage (Azure/AWS), DAM, MS 365, Marketing Automation and other business applications

• Knowledgeable in successful API integration of CTI and other communication technologies like whatsapp with business applications

• Identifying vendors, developing SOW and wireframes, successfully managing projects to completion for Websites (js/node/react/shopify/wordpress etc) and application development

• Use of low code/no node application development in MS platforms would be desirable

• At least 3 to 5 years of experience.

• Excellent written and spoken communication and interpersonal skills.

• Strong leadership and project management skills.

• Solid analytical and problem-solving skills

Overseeing all technology operations including Software, Networking, Hardware and Security along with evaluating them according to established goals.

• Devising and establishing IT policies and systems to support the implementation of strategies set by upper management with plans for redundancy, zero to no downtime and constantly improving business operations and processes

• Analyzing the business requirements of all departments to determine their technology needs.

• IT Head manages and supervises an organization's technical operations which includes overseeing IT department employees and ensuring all technology. systems and applications support the organization's goals and objectives.

• IT Head should have in-depth knowledge of new software development, be able to prepare Wireframe design & Architecture, able to design and describe SOW for all new IT software development.

• Overseeing all IT operations infrastructure.

• Developing, implementing, and evaluating IT projects in line with organizational objectives.

• Liaising with other departments to determine and address their IT needs and requirements.

• Managing and supervising employees in the IT department.

• Ensuring the maintenance of current projects and technology systems. • Identifying vulnerabilities, the need for upgrades, and opportunities for improvement.

• Proposing strategic solutions and recommending new systems and software.

• Preparing financial budgets and performance reports.

• Building and maintaining relationships with external advisors and vendors.

• Ensuring reported issues are resolved promptly

Roles and Responsibility :

- This position requires you to lead and manage the whole engineering team.

- Manage your OKRs, contribute to product strategy and help develop your team.

- Create clear career paths for team members and help them grow with regular & deep mentoring.

- You work closely with the Product Management, Business Development, and Operations team and enable them by providing scalable and high-quality technology solutions at a rapid pace.

- Architect & design technically robust, flexible, and scalable solutions.

- Lead multiple modules, third party integrations and business partners integration.

- Taking architectural decisions, defining high level and low level design.

- Track record of bringing in and growing engineering talent and more to be shared via email.

Skills you are expected to have :

- Hands-on experience in advanced Golang, Python, PHP, Reactjs, React Native PWA, Javascript, AWS Cloud Services.

- Deep understanding of technologies, high level design, low level design in a secure, scalable and available set-up.

- Deep understanding & expertise with highly transactional, large relational and complex systems.

- Hands-on experience in system design, architecture or developing distributed systems.

- Should be good in writing code keeping scalability, flexibility and monitoring at center.

- Good understanding of source control tools GIT, Jira and Bitbucket, code reviews etc.

- Preferable experience in Django and Laravel frameworks, but not limited to these only.

- Experience in the development of robust and scalable Rest APIs and APIs testing tools such as postman etc.

- Experience in micro service-based development would be a plus.

- Experience in queuing systems such as rabbitMQ, Active MQ would be a plus.

- Experience in AWS cloud services.

- Experience and understanding of CI/CD pipeline.

- Good analytical and communication skills.

- Candidates from the fintech domain would be preferred (Payments/ Banking/ Wallets/ Insurance/ Financial Markets).

About Us :

- We are a consumer lending fintech start-up on a mission to provide Fair Finance to Everyone. We have raised $15 million in debt and equity funding from leading angels that have previously backed Ola, Oyo, Myntra, Uniphore and 1mg as well as marquee NBFCs.

- Our loans are originated in partnership with 1000+ merchants who are present in over 80 cities -

- Leading healthcare chains: Indra IVF, Partha Dental, VLCC

- Home improvements: Asian Paints, Design Cafe, @home by Nilkamal

- Education : upGrad, Toppr, Board Infinity, Career Point, Bansal Learning, Miles Education E-Bikes - Ampere, Hero Electric, Lectrix, Benlng

- Our founding team has worked at fintech companies in London where they won a Banking Technology Award for Best Mobile Initiative as well as Indian FinTechs such as Coverfox and Liquiloans.

- The team has extensive experience in credit, investment banking and vendor management. They have graduated from London Business School, Northwestern University (USA), and attained the CFA charter.

Responsibilities

• Managing small to medium teams with a focus on performance and talent retention
• Participate in creation and execution of product and technology roadmap with stakeholders.
• Collaborate with product managers and other leads/architects for building and delivering projects
• Ownership of front-end and back-end development work carried out with reusability, scalability, and testability of the projects
• Hire and mentor junior team members and coordinate their training
• Coordinate with external stakeholders for new integrations and tools
• Review and update policies relevant to internal systems and equipment and stay compliant with security regulations
• Monitor reliability and performance of all customer-facing and internal projects
• Manage software development projects by setting requirements, goals, and timelines

Requirements

• Work experience as an engineering manager or in a similar senior-level position at an engineering department
• Experience in the Fintech space
• Extensive experience with cloud technologies (AWS preferred) and server-side technologies (Java preferred)
• Hands-on experience in back-end and front-end development
• Good understanding of SDLC using agile methodologies (SCRUM / Kanban / SAFe)
• Leadership abilities with a strategic mind
• Excellent project management skills
• BSc/MSc in Engineering, Computer Science or relevant field

Technical skills required: 

• 5+ years building enterprise systems 
• Worked on one or more large scale applications on Python Django
• Good understanding of distributed systems, scalability, and availability with an understanding of the CAP theorem and its implications for real-world distributed systems
• Understanding of distributed systems like Dynamo, HBase, various messaging and queuing systems and understanding of Time, Clocks, and Ordering of Events, rate control, load distribution
• Good knowledge of one or more relational and NoSQL databases and transactions Shrewd focus on latency and throughput of services
• In-depth understanding of concurrency, synchronization, NIO, memory allocation, and GC
• Experience with IaaS clouds like AWS/Google Cloud, Azure, OpenStack etc. 
• Experience in working with Message Brokers and Application Containers
• Ability to detect fraud and risk mitigation

Responsibilities:

• Code reviews, ensuring that the code follows the best technical practices and design patterns
• Follow best technical practices, incorporate emerging solutions, and employ scalable designs that can be easily adopted
• Architect solutions by mapping customer business problems to end-to-end technology solutions
• Experience in working with Agile Methodology
• Regular monitoring and audits of the cloud infrastructure
• Managing System monitoring tools and developing processes for handling crisis situations
• Managing the development team and the support team. Setting processes that will increase the team’s efficiency
• Handling technical and managerial interviews for expansion of the team

Qualification and experience:

• B.E/B.Tech/M.E./M.Tech/M.S.
• 5+ years of experience  working as a full stack engineer with a track record of delivering scalable products
• FinTech experience with Prepaid payment instruments and UPI experience is a big plus
• Machine learning experience would be preferable

• upGrad was awarded the Best Tech for Education by IAMAI for 2018-19.
• upGrad was also ranked as one of the LinkedIn Top Startups 2018: The 25 most sought-after startups in India.
• upGrad was earlier selected as one of the top ten most innovative companies in India by FastCompany.
• We were also covered by the Financial Times along with other disruptors in Ed-Tech.
• upGrad is the official education partner for Government of India - Startup India program.
• Our program with IIIT B has been ranked #1 program in the country in the domain of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.

A highly motivated and passionate individual who has experience in executing end to end web based products and applications; bringing them to production quickly and with high quality. Passionate about building flexible and scalable solutions with an eye for detail and can weigh pros and cons to find best possible solutions.

Role and Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Product Managers to plan, implement and deliver tasks and modules on a timely basis with best practices and adherence to SOPs.
• Understand the product requirements, ask questions, and gather information and feedback to design and deliver scalable and flexible systems.
• Deliver end to end applications from front end web development, back end development, middleware integration and persisting data in no SQL or RDBMS databases.
• Play the role of an unblocker in a tight scrum environment. Should be able to help other developers with challenges, problem solving, and help achieve milestones as per plan.
• Build a highly skilled and efficient team by hiring, keeping the team motivated, and managing performance.
• Build a culture of agile development, continuous improvement, and a strong sense of product ownership.
• Drive a culture of high quality at all stages by leveraging CI/CD and automation.
• Identify architectural issues and plans to resolve them.
• Proactively identify risks and define mitigations plans.
• Prioritize to manage ad-hoc requests in parallel with ongoing projects.
• Hands on with programming with 25%+ of bandwidth going into coding activities owned.

Skills/Experience

• A highly talented developer with 8+ years of hands-on experience in building secure and scalable web based applications using Java in backend and JS based frontend frameworks.
• Demonstrated experience managing teams of 5-10 or more engineers in product or online teams.
• Strong knowledge of Java 8+, databases (SQL and NoSQL) , MySql, Mongo. Willing to learn new technologies (Golang).
• Experience working with Cassandra, Spring Boot, Kafka, RabbitMQ is highly desirable.
• Working knowledge of any one or more of AngularJS/ReactJS/VueJS and CSS3, HTML5.
• Strong experience in data modelling for data storage tools in SQL; experience with noSQL is highly desirable.
• Experience building scalable solutions for 2x, 5x and 10x growth with high quality and flexibility.
• Practitioner of test driven development practices. Experience in creating and adhering to best practices for development.
• Experience working with container technologies like Docker and knowledge of CI/CD processes for automated integration and deployment. Basic knowledge of AWS preferred.
• Strong experience in Microservices (SRP) paradigm.

Qualification

B.Tech/M.Tech/MCA(IT/Computer Science)