Lead ML Engineer

Razorpay was founded by Shashank Kumar and Harshil Mathur in 2014. Razorpay is building a new-age digital banking hub (Neobank) for businesses in India with the mission is to enable frictionless banking and payments experiences for businesses of all shapes and sizes. What started as a B2B payments company is processing billions of dollars of payments for lakhs of businesses across India. 

We are a full-stack financial services organisation, committed to helping Indian businesses with comprehensive and innovative payment and business banking solutions built over robust technology to address the entire length and breadth of the payment and banking journey for any business. Over the past year, we’ve disbursed loans worth millions of dollars in loans to thousands of businesses. In parallel, Razorpay is reimagining how businesses manage money by simplifying business banking (via Razorpay X) and enabling capital availability for businesses (via Razorpay Capital). 

The Role:

We are looking for an enthusiastic Lead Machine Learning Engineer to join our growing team. The hire will be responsible for working in collaboration with other data scientists and engineers across the organization to develop production-quality models for a variety of problems across Razorpay. Some possible problems include : making recommendations to merchants from Razorpay’s suite of products, cost optimisation of transactions for merchants, automatic address disambiguation / correction to enable tracking customer purchases using advanced natural language processing techniques, computer vision techniques for auto-verifications, running large-scale bandit experiments to optimize Razorpay’s merchant facing web pages at scale, and many more. In addition to this, we expect the MLE to be adept at productionising ML models using state-of-the-art systems.

As part of the DS team @ Razorpay, you’ll work with some of the smartest engineers/architects/data scientists/product leaders in the industry and have the opportunity to solve complex and critical problems for Razorpay. As a Senior MLE, you will also have the opportunity to partner with and be mentored by senior engineers across the organization and lay the foundation for a world-class DS team here at Razorpay.

You come and work with the right attitude, fun and growth guaranteed!

Roles & Responsibilities:

• 6+ years of experience doing ML in a production environment and productionising ML models at scale
• Bachelors (required) or Masters in a quantitative field such as Computer science, operations research, statistics, mathematics, physics
• Familiarity with basic machine learning techniques : regression, classification, clustering, model metrics and performance (AUC, ROC, precision, recall and their various flavors)
• Basic knowledge of advanced machine learning techniques : regression, clustering, recommender systems, ranking systems and neural networks
• Expertise in coding in python and good knowledge of at least one language from C, C++, Java and at least one scripting language (perl, shell commands)
• Experience with big data tools like Spark and experience working with Databricks / DataRobots
• Experience with AWS’ suite of tools for production-quality ML work, or alternatively familiarity with Microsoft Azure / GCP
• Experience deploying complex ML algorithms to production in collaboration with engineers using Flask, MLFlow, Seldon, etc.

Good to have:

• Excellent communication skills and ability to keep stakeholders informed of progress / blockers

Razorpay believes in and follows an equal employment opportunity policy that doesn’t discriminate on gender, religion, sexual orientation, colour, nationality, age, etc. We welcome interests and applications from all groups and communities across the globe.
 
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