UX Lead

About us:

Pi - India’s 1st SuperMoney App, is an AI-native Fintech startup building ML platforms for financial advisory and wealth management. Founded by a former Investment Banker (IIT/IIM/ CFA®) with over a decade of experience.

We are looking for Machine Learning Engineers who are passionate about developing world-class ML platforms. You will be part of the Core Founding team that lays the foundation for a Unicorn journey. You'll join a visionary, funded startup on the ground floor and get to build it up one conversation at a time.

Qualifications:

• Overall experience of 4 to 7 years in ML
• B.Tech/BE from top-tier colleges (IIT, NIT, IIIT)

Requirements:

• Applied GenAI expertise in implementing cutting-edge LLMs and diverse generative models, specializing in transformers and GPT models.
• Demonstrated proficiency across various modalities, showcasing a dynamic skill set for innovative solutions.
• Expertise in Natural Language Processing (NLP), with a comprehensive understanding of the entire stack involved in designing, training, evaluating, and deploying machine learning models, particularly large language models.
• Deep understanding of the entire stack when it comes to designing, training, evaluating, and deploying ML models. Successfully collected a new giant dataset and played a critical role in shipping a new ML product that required custom components.
• Extensive experience in designing and building intelligent agents, leveraging AI techniques to create autonomous and adaptive systems for various applications.
• Proficient in writing distributed ML infrastructure, debugging and fixing hard-to-find bugs in ML models, and owning production-grade projects from start to finish.
• Experience with Deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow. , Jax, and Keras.
• Proficient in writing GPU kernels using CUDA .
• Experience with AWS SageMaker and the AWS Machine Learning suite of tools.
• Developed novel techniques for ML model measurement and mitigation.
• Proficient in Apache Kafka for seamless data streaming, Apache Spark for large-scale batch processing, and Apache Airflow for efficient orchestration.
• Demonstrated expertise in Kubernetes-based workflows, specifically Kubeflow, for scalable and portable machine learning and data processing deployments, enhancing pipeline reliability and performance.
• Experience with MongoDB, MySQL, and Vector databases.
• Experience with analytics.
• Proficient in Kubernetes, Python, Github, Huggingface, R(for Analytics)
• Experience in mentoring and growing engineers.

Additional Benefits:

Competitive compensation along with ESOPs of a path-breaking Fintech startup

1.      Core Responsibilities

·        Leading solutions for data engineering

·        Maintain the integrity of both the design and the data that is held within the architecture

·        Champion and educate people in the development and use of data engineering best practises

·        Support the Head of Data Engineering and lead by example

·        Contribute to the development of database management services and associated processes relating to the delivery of data solutions

·        Provide requirements analysis, documentation, development, delivery and maintenance of data platforms.

·        Develop database requirements in a structured and logical manner ensuring delivery is aligned with business prioritisation and best practise

·        Design and deliver performance enhancements, application migration processes and version upgrades across a pipeline of BI environments.

·        Provide support for the scoping and delivery of BI capability to internal users.

·        Identify risks and issues and escalate to Line / Project manager. 

·        Work with clients, existing asset owners & their service providers and non BI development staff to clarify and deliver work stream objectives in timescales that deliver to the overall project expectations.

·        Develop and maintain documentation in support of all BI processes.

·        Proactively identify cost-justifiable improvements to data manipulation processes.

·        Research and promote relevant BI tools and processes that contribute to increased efficiency and capability in support of corporate objectives.

·        Promote a culture that embraces change, continuous improvement and a ‘can do’ attitude.

·        Demonstrate enthusiasm and self-motivation at all times.

·        Establish effective working relationships with other internal teams to drive improved efficiency and effective processes.

·        Be a champion for high quality data and use of strategic data repositories, associated relational model, and Data Warehouse for optimising the delivery of accurate, consistent and reliable business intelligence

·        Ensure that you fully understand and comply with the organisation’s Risk Management Policies as they relate to your area of responsibility and demonstrate in your day to day work that you put customers at the heart of everything you do.

·        Ensure that you fully understand and comply with the organisation’s Data Governance Policies as they relate to your area of responsibility and demonstrate in your day to day work that you treat data as an important corporate asset which must be protected and managed.

·        Maintain the company’s compliance standards and ensure timely completion of all mandatory on-line training modules and attestations.

2.      Experience Requirements

·        5 years Data Engineering / ETL development experience is essential

·        5 years data design experience in an MI / BI / Analytics environment (Kimball, lake house, data lake) is essential

·        5 years experience of working in a structured Change Management project lifecycle is essential

·        Experience of working in a financial services environment is desirable

·        Experience of dealing with senior management within a large organisation is desirable

·        5 years experience of developing in conjunction with large complex projects and programmes is desirable

·        Experience mentoring other members of the team on best practise and internal standards is essential

·        Experience with cloud data platforms desirable (Microsoft Azure) is desirable

3.      Knowledge Requirements

·        A strong knowledge of business intelligence solutions and an ability to translate this into data solutions for the broader business is essential

·        Strong demonstrable knowledge of data warehouse methodologies

·        Robust understanding of high level business processes is essential

·        Understanding of data migration, including reconciliation, data cleanse and cutover is desirable

• Craft is a given, and so is the willingness to execute production work
• You feel comfortable managing on-brand materials in ways that still push creative boundaries
• You’re willing to make things happen within tight constraints and tight timelines
• You can design original pieces, including infographics and journey maps
• You are comfortable reviewing junior designers’ work to ensure high quality and mentorship
• You inspire the team by being up-to-date with what’s new in the field of design, health, or impact
• You can effectively communicate with disciplines across the organization and are comfortable aligning your talents with theirs to build products and solutions together
• You have a genuine empathic curiosity in how to communicate with diverse audiences, particularly those with low literacy and living in rural settings
• You’re passionate about contributing to the intersection of social impact, visual communication, and human-centered design and always ask: who am I designing for?

MUST-HAVES

• Fluent in one Indian language (two languages is a significant plus)
• 3+ years of work experience in a similar role
• Bachelor’s degree in visual communication or a related field or equivalent
• Hands-on experience in InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, and After Effects (video editing skills are a significant plus)
• Highly motivated, proactive, and experience working with minimal supervision
• Experience working in creative, human-centered culture and cross-cultural design
• Attention to visual details
• Ability to meet deadlines and collaborate with a team
• Excited to use your artistic talents in a social impact context

What you bring to the table

• Education: Bachelor's degree in IT, computer science or related
• Experience: 5-9 years of relevant experience for SSE role
• Exposure to microservices, API management tools like Swagger
• Must have experience in working on Agile Scrum teams in the past and exposure to any of the Agile project management tools like Jira, Mingle, RTC, TFS etc.
• Proficient in application log analysis.
• Experience Java/JEE Development - especially EJB 2.1 / 3.0, JDBC
• Experience with application servers such as JBoss AS or IBM WAS is an advantage
• Experience in SQL programing using PostgreSQL / MySQL /Maria DB and JPA (Annotation Based)
• Knowledge of build tools such as Maven or Gradle and of continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, Nexus
• Basic knowledge of web services (SOAP or REST) and web technologies (HTML, CSS, JS)
• Basic knowledge of containers like Dockers, basic knowledge of cloud infrastructure
• Ability to interact and coordinate with employees at different levels, different groups, and different geographical locations within the company
• Ability to support multiple existing applications as well as work on building new ones
• Ability to provide accurate project estimates and make recommendations on specific technologies to use based on business requirements
• Good verbal and written Communication.
• Readiness for short term Domestic and International Travels

Preferred

• Industry knowledge with respect to payments systems and processing in the Debit/Credit and Account based payments (EFT Switching) from different channels like POS, ATM or ecommerce, Card Management System and Real Time Payment Systems.
• Exposure to the Interchange Interfaces like Visa Net, MasterCard, BankNet
• Exposure to Interchange Simulators and Mandates Management.

Responsibilities:

• Exploring and visualizing data to gain an understanding of it, then identifying differences in data distribution that could affect performance when deploying the model in the real world.
• Verifying data quality, and/or ensuring it via data cleaning.
• Able to adapt and work fast in producing the output which upgrades the decision making of stakeholders using ML.
• To design and develop Machine Learning systems and schemes. 
• To perform statistical analysis and fine-tune models using test results.
• To train and retrain ML systems and models as and when necessary. 
• To deploy ML models in production and maintain the cost of cloud infrastructure.
• To develop Machine Learning apps according to client and data scientist requirements.
• To analyze the problem-solving capabilities and use-cases of ML algorithms and rank them by how successful they are in meeting the objective.

Technical Knowledge:

• Worked with real time problems, solved them using ML and deep learning models deployed in real time and should have some awesome projects under his belt to showcase. 
• Proficiency in Python and experience with working with Jupyter Framework, Google collab and cloud hosted notebooks such as AWS sagemaker, DataBricks etc.
• Proficiency in working with libraries Sklearn, Tensorflow, Open CV2, Pyspark,  Pandas, Numpy and related libraries.
• Expert in visualising and manipulating complex datasets.
• Proficiency in working with visualisation libraries such as seaborn, plotly, matplotlib etc.
• Proficiency in Linear Algebra, statistics and probability required for Machine Learning.
• Proficiency in ML Based algorithms for example, Gradient boosting, stacked Machine learning, classification algorithms and deep learning algorithms. Need to have experience in hypertuning various models and comparing the results of algorithm performance.
• Big data Technologies such as Hadoop stack and Spark. 
• Basic use of clouds (VM’s example EC2).
• Brownie points for Kubernetes and Task Queues.      
• Strong written and verbal communications.
• Experience working in an Agile environment.