About Us
Zupee is India’s fastest-growing innovator in real money gaming with a focus on predominant skill-focused games. Started by 2 IIT-Kanpur alumni in 2018, we are backed by marquee global investors such as WestCap Group, Tomales Bay Capital, Matrix Partners, Falcon Edge, Orios Ventures, and Smile Group.
Know more about our recent funding: https://bit.ly/3AHmSL3
Our focus has been on innovating in the board, strategy, and casual games sub-genres. We innovate to ensure our games provide an intersection between skill and entertainment, enabling our users to earn while they play.
Location: We are location agnostic & our teams work from anywhere. Physically we are based out of Gurugram
Core Responsibilities:
- Responsible for designing, developing, testing, and deploying ML models that can leverage multiple signal sources, to build a personalized user experience
- Work closely with the business stakeholders to identify the potential Data science applications
- Contribute by doing opportunity analysis, building project proposals, designing and implementation of ML projects, in the areas of Ranking, Embeddings, Recommendation engines, etc
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to design experiments, model implementations, and new feature creation
- Clearly communicate technical details, strategies, and outcomes to a business audience
What are we looking for
- 4+ years of hands-on experience in data science using techniques including but not limited to regression, classification, NLP etc.
- Previous experience in model deployment, model monitoring, optimization and model interpretability.
- Expertise with Random forests, Gradient boosting, KNN, Regression and unsupervised learning algorithms
- Experience in using Neural Networks like ANN, RNN, Reinforcement Learning or Deep Learning etc.
- Solid understanding of Python and common machine learning frameworks such as XGBoost, scikit-learn, PyTorch/Tensorflow
- Outstanding problem-solving skills, with demonstrated ability to think creatively and strategically
- Technology-driven mindset, up-to-date with digital and technology literature, trends.
- Must have knowledge of Experimentation and Basic Statistics
- Must have experience in Predictive Analytics
Non-Desired Skills:
- Experience in Descriptive Analytics – Don’t apply
- Experience in NLP Text Analysis, Image, Speech Analysis – Don’t apply

About Zupee
About
Mission Zupee
We have made it our mission to improve people’s lives by improving their learning ability, skills and mental aptitude through scientifically designed Games. We have already helped over 10 million people improve their general knowledge, critical thinking and competitive skills. We are living in an age of competition and it is important to stay sharp and well informed. Zupee is committed to enhancing and enabling talent and skills for the workforce of the future by creating formats that educate, inform, entertain and reward the skills based behaviour of our users.
About us
Founded in 2018 by two IIT Kanpur graduates, We are backed by marquee investors and have raised USD 19Mn in series-A thus far. As India’s fastest growing skill-based Gaming company, we’re at the forefront of the industry and now holding a new vision to become the world’s leading gamification platform.
Our Growth Story
The online gaming industry is growing at an annual rate of 40% and is expected to become a 14 billion USD market in India by 2025. Zupee’s growth has galloped past the industry and become profitable at the EBT level in record time with more than 10Mn user base & consumer spend of 2Bn USD on our platform.
Follow links below to know more about our recent Forbes Asia 30under30 & fundraise coverages:
2. https://www.vccircle.com/matrix-partners-india-leads-series-a-funding-round-in-gaming-app-zupee
3. https://www.vccircle.com/exclusive-smile-group-backs-gaming-startup-zupee
4. https://www.forbes.com/profile/zupee/?list=30under30-asia-consumer-technology&sh=1c4e8e5a1cb0
Our Culture
Zupee thrives on a culture of entrepreneurship (ownership & hustle), customer obsession, bias for diagnosis & action and trust & respect for everyone. We keep our mission first in order to win customer’s trust above everything.
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