Fullstack Developer

Role Description:

• You will be part of the data delivery team and will have the opportunity to develop a deep understanding of the domain/function.
• You will design and drive the work plan for the optimization/automation and standardization of the processes incorporating best practices to achieve efficiency gains.
• You will run data engineering pipelines, link raw client data with data model, conduct data assessment, perform data quality checks, and transform data using ETL tools.
• You will perform data transformations, modeling, and validation activities, as well as configure applications to the client context. You will also develop scripts to validate, transform, and load raw data using programming languages such as Python and / or PySpark.
• In this role, you will determine database structural requirements by analyzing client operations, applications, and programming.
• You will develop cross-site relationships to enhance idea generation, and manage stakeholders.
• Lastly, you will collaborate with the team to support ongoing business processes by delivering high-quality end products on-time and perform quality checks wherever required.

About us
Aikon Labs Pvt Ltd is a start-up focused on Realizing Ideas. One such idea is iEngage.io , our Intelligent Engagement Platform. We leverage Augmented Intelligence, a combination of machine-driven insights & human understanding, to serve a timely response to every interaction from the people you care about.
Get in touch If you are interested. 

Do you have a passion to be a part of an innovative startup? Here’s an opportunity for you - become an active member of our core platform development team.

Main Duties
● Quickly research the latest innovations in Machine Learning, especially with respect to
Natural Language Understanding & implement them if useful
● Train models to provide different insights, mainly from text but also other media such as Audio and Video
● Validate the models trained. Fine-tune & optimise as necessary
● Deploy validated models, wrapped in a Flask server as a REST API or containerize in docker containers
● Build preprocessing pipelines for the models that are bieng served as a REST API
● Periodically, test & validate models in use. Update where necessary

Role & Relationships
We consider ourselves a team & you will be a valuable part of it. You could be reporting to a Senior member or directly to our Founder, CEO

Educational Qualifications
We don’t discriminate. As long as you have the required skill set & the right attitude

Experience
Upto two years of experience, preferably working on ML. Freshers are welcome too!

Skills
Good
● Strong understanding of Java / Python
● Clarity on concepts of Data Science
● A strong grounding in core Machine Learning
● Ability to wrangle & manipulate data into a processable form
● Knowledge of web technologies like Web server (Flask, Django etc), REST API's
Even better
● Experience with deep learning
● Experience with frameworks like Scikit-Learn, Tensorflow, Pytorch, Keras
Competencies
● Knowledge of NLP libraries such as NLTK, spacy, gensim.
● Knowledge of NLP models such as Wod2vec, Glove, ELMO, Fasttext
● An aptitude to solve problems & learn something new
● Highly self-motivated
● Analytical frame of mind
● Ability to work in fast-paced, dynamic environment

Location
Pune

Remuneration
Once we meet, we shall make an offer depending on how good a fit you are & the experience you already have

Relevant set of skills
● Good communication and collaboration skills with 4-7 years of experience.
● Ability to code and script with strong grasp of CS fundamentals, excellent problem solving abilities.
● Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment, Data management skills
● Good understanding of RDBMS
● Experience in building Data pipelines and processing large datasets .
● Knowledge of building Web Scraping and data mining is a plus.
● Working knowledge of open source tools such as mysql, Solr, ElasticSearch, Cassandra ( data stores )
would be a plus.
● Expert in Python programming
Role and responsibilities
● Inclined towards working in a start-up environment.
● Comfort with frequent, incremental code testing and deployment, Data management skills
● Design and Build robust and scalable data engineering solutions for structured and unstructured data for
delivering business insights, reporting and analytics.
● Expertise in troubleshooting, debugging, data completeness and quality issues and scaling overall
system performance.
● Build robust API ’s that powers our delivery points (Dashboards, Visualizations and other integrations).

Who we are?

Searce is  a niche’ Cloud Consulting business with futuristic tech DNA. We do new-age tech to realise the “Next” in the “Now” for our Clients. We specialise in Cloud Data Engineering, AI/Machine Learning and Advanced Cloud infra tech such as Anthos and Kubernetes. We are one of the top & the fastest growing partners for Google Cloud and AWS globally with over 2,500 clients successfully moved to cloud.

What do we believe?

• Best practices are overrated

• Implementing best practices can only make one an average .

• Honesty and Transparency

• We believe in naked truth. We do what we tell and tell what we do.

• Client Partnership

• Client - Vendor relationship: No. We partner with clients instead. 
• And our sales team comprises 100% of our clients.

How do we work ?

It’s all about being Happier first. And rest follows. Searce work culture is defined by HAPPIER.

• Humble: Happy people don’t carry ego around. We listen to understand; not to respond.

• Adaptable: We are comfortable with uncertainty. And we accept changes well. As that’s what life's about.

• Positive: We are super positive about work & life in general. We love to forget and forgive. We don’t hold grudges. We don’t have time or adequate space for it.

• Passionate: We are as passionate about the great street-food vendor across the street as about Tesla’s new model and so on. Passion is what drives us to work and makes us deliver the quality we deliver.

• Innovative: Innovate or Die. We love to challenge the status quo.

• Experimental: We encourage curiosity & making mistakes.

• Responsible: Driven. Self motivated. Self governing teams. We own it.

So, what are we hunting for ?

As a Principal Data Scientist, you will help develop and enhance the algorithms and technology that powers our unique system. This role covers a wide range of challenges,

from developing new models using pre-existing components to enable current systems to

be more intelligent. You should be able to train models using existing data and use them in

most creative manner to deliver the smartest experience to customers. You will have to

develop multiple AI applications that push the threshold of intelligence in machines.

Working on multiple projects at a time, you will have to maintain a consistently high level of attention to detail while finding creative ways to provide analytical insights. You will also have to thrive in a fast, high-energy environment and should be able to balance multiple projects in real-time. The thrill of the next big challenge should drive you, and when faced with an obstacle, you should be able to find clever solutions.You must have the ability and interest to work on a range of different types of projects and business processes, and must have a background that demonstrates this ability.

Your bucket of Undertakings :

1. Collaborate with team members to develop new models to be used for classification problems
2. Work on software profiling, performance tuning and analysis, and other general software engineering tasks
3. Use independent judgment to take existing data and build new models from it
4. Collaborate and provide technical guidance and come up with new ideas,rapid prototyping and converting prototypes into scalable products
5. Conduct experiments to assess the accuracy and recall of language processing modules and to study the effect of such experiences
6. Lead AI R&D initiatives to include prototypes and minimum viable products
7. Work closely with multiple teams on projects like Visual quality inspection, ML Ops, Conversational banking, Demand forecasting, Anomaly detection etc. 
8. Build reusable and scalable solutions for use across the customer base
9. Prototype and demonstrate AI related products and solutions for customers
10. Assist business development teams in the expansion and enhancement of a pipeline to support short- and long-range growth plans
11. Identify new business opportunities and prioritize pursuits for AI 
12. Participate in long range strategic planning activities designed to meet the Company’s objectives and to increase its enterprise value and revenue goals

Education & Experience : 

1. BE/B.Tech/Masters in a quantitative field such as CS, EE, Information sciences, Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Operations Research, or related, with focus on applied and foundational Machine Learning , AI , NLP and/or / data-driven statistical analysis & modelling
2. 8+ years of Experience majorly in applying AI/ML/ NLP / deep learning / data-driven statistical analysis & modelling solutions to multiple domains, including financial engineering, financial processes a plus
3. Strong, proven programming skills and with machine learning and deep learning and Big data frameworks including TensorFlow, Caffe, Spark, Hadoop. Experience with writing complex programs and implementing custom algorithms in these and other environments
4. Experience beyond using open source tools as-is, and writing custom code on top of, or in addition to, existing open source frameworks
5. Proven capability in demonstrating successful advanced technology solutions (either prototypes, POCs, well-cited research publications, and/or products) using ML/AI/NLP/data science in one or more domains
6. Research and implement novel machine learning and statistical approaches
7. Experience in data management, data analytics middleware, platforms and infrastructure, cloud and fog computing is a plus
8. Excellent communication skills (oral and written) to explain complex algorithms, solutions to stakeholders across multiple disciplines, and ability to work in a diverse team

Accomplishment Set: 

1. Extensive experience with Hadoop and Machine learning algorithms
2. Exposure to Deep Learning, Neural Networks, or related fields and a strong interest and desire to pursue them
3. Experience in Natural Language Processing, Computer Vision, Machine Learning or Machine Intelligence (Artificial Intelligence)
4. Passion for solving NLP problems
5. Experience with specialized tools and project for working with natural language processing
6. Knowledge of machine learning frameworks like Tensorflow, Pytorch
7. Experience with software version control systems like Github
8. Fast learner and be able to work independently as well as in a team environment with good written and verbal communication skills

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Responsible for developing and maintaining applications with PySpark 

REQUIREMENT:

•  Previous experience of working in large scale data engineering
•  4+ years of experience working in data engineering and/or backend technologies with cloud experience (any) is mandatory.
•  Previous experience of architecting and designing backend for large scale data processing.
•  Familiarity and experience of working in different technologies related to data engineering – different database technologies, Hadoop, spark, storm, hive etc.
•  Hands-on and have the ability to contribute a key portion of data engineering backend.
•  Self-inspired and motivated to drive for exceptional results.
•  Familiarity and experience working with different stages of data engineering – data acquisition, data refining, large scale data processing, efficient data storage for business analysis.
•  Familiarity and experience working with different DB technologies and how to scale them.

RESPONSIBILITY:

•  End to end responsibility to come up with data engineering architecture, design, development and then implementation of it.
•  Build data engineering workflow for large scale data processing.
•  Discover opportunities in data acquisition.
•  Bring industry best practices for data engineering workflow.
•  Develop data set processes for data modelling, mining and production.
•  Take additional tech responsibilities for driving an initiative to completion
•  Recommend ways to improve data reliability, efficiency and quality
•  Goes out of their way to reduce complexity.
•  Humble and outgoing - engineering cheerleaders.

Job Overview :

Your mission is to help lead team towards creating solutions that improve the way our business is run. Your knowledge of design, development, coding, testing and application programming will help your team raise their game, meeting your standards, as well as satisfying both business and functional requirements. Your expertise in various technology domains will be counted on to set strategic direction and solve complex and mission critical problems, internally and externally. Your quest to embracing leading-edge technologies and methodologies inspires your team to follow suit.

Responsibilities and Duties :

- As a Data Engineer you will be responsible for the development of data pipelines for numerous applications handling all kinds of data like structured, semi-structured &
unstructured. Having big data knowledge specially in Spark & Hive is highly preferred.

- Work in team and provide proactive technical oversight, advice development teams fostering re-use, design for scale, stability, and operational efficiency of data/analytical solutions

Education level :

- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent

Experience :

- Minimum 5+ years relevant experience working on production grade projects experience in hands on, end to end software development

- Expertise in application, data and infrastructure architecture disciplines

- Expert designing data integrations using ETL and other data integration patterns

- Advanced knowledge of architecture, design and business processes

Proficiency in :

- Modern programming languages like Java, Python, Scala

- Big Data technologies Hadoop, Spark, HIVE, Kafka

- Writing decently optimized SQL queries

- Orchestration and deployment tools like Airflow & Jenkins for CI/CD (Optional)

- Responsible for design and development of integration solutions with Hadoop/HDFS, Real-Time Systems, Data Warehouses, and Analytics solutions

- Knowledge of system development lifecycle methodologies, such as waterfall and AGILE.

- An understanding of data architecture and modeling practices and concepts including entity-relationship diagrams, normalization, abstraction, denormalization, dimensional
modeling, and Meta data modeling practices.

- Experience generating physical data models and the associated DDL from logical data models.

- Experience developing data models for operational, transactional, and operational reporting, including the development of or interfacing with data analysis, data mapping,
and data rationalization artifacts.

- Experience enforcing data modeling standards and procedures.

- Knowledge of web technologies, application programming languages, OLTP/OLAP technologies, data strategy disciplines, relational databases, data warehouse development and Big Data solutions.

- Ability to work collaboratively in teams and develop meaningful relationships to achieve common goals

Skills :

Must Know :

- Core big-data concepts

- Spark - PySpark/Scala

- Data integration tool like Pentaho, Nifi, SSIS, etc (at least 1)

- Handling of various file formats

- Cloud platform - AWS/Azure/GCP

- Orchestration tool - Airflow