Machine Learning Engineer

Required Experience

1 - 2 Years

Skills

data science,

ml,

machine learning

Are you passionate about solving roadblocks & challenges faced by MSMEs in India?

MSMEs contribute significantly to India's total GDP. 90% of India's ~$1 Trillion Retail Market is controlled by Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (MSMEs). Which means ~$900B worth of commerce flows through these ~60M MSMEs in the form of shops/kiosks/homes, scattered all over the country. We at Khatabook, have a vision to empower MSMEs and help them increase their incomes. We have built a product that brings efficiency in MSME operations by providing them easy to use tools to manage their receivables, inventory and billing which creates transparency in their cash flow. Within the Khatabook platform, we have also enabled the facility to take loans for their short term working capital needs for select Khatabook users that are displaying good credit behavior. Our app has been downloaded over 100 Million times with a monthly active user base of 8 Million+ which are adding 220 Million+ transactions with a transaction value of $18 Billion.

Why work with us?

People are our biggest asset At Khatabook, every one of us is a dynamic superstar. We have carefully bred an ecosystem which hires nothing but incredibly and exceptionally talented people who can dream, collaborate, experiment, and break new ground. We're a strong team that looks out for each other.

Your role:

We are seeking a highly skilled and innovative Data Scientist - I to strengthen our credit risk modeling team. You will play a pivotal role in monitoring, developing and advancing our suite of credit and collections risk models, with a particular focus on harnessing the power of SMS and other alternative datasets. If you are passionate about machine learning, deep learning, and applying large language models (LLMs) to real-world financial challenges, we want to connect with you-

What would you do at Khatabook?

• Monitor, evaluate, and refine model performance over time, ensuring reliability and alignment with business goals.
• Design, develop, and deploy end-to-end data science solutions that address complex business problems across lending, insurance, investments, and payments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including product, engineering, and business to identify opportunities for data-driven impact.
• Continuously explore and implement state-of-the-art techniques in machine learning, deep learning, NLP and Generative AI.
• Drive experimentation and rapid prototyping to validate hypotheses and scale successful models to production.

What are we looking for ?

• Bachelor's or Master's in Engineering or equivalent.
• 1+ years of Data Science/Machine Learning experience.
• Strong knowledge in statistics, tree-based techniques (e.g., Random Forests, XGBoost), machine learning (e.g., MLP, SVM), inference, hypothesis testing, simulations, and optimizations.
• Strong inclination towards figuring out complex patterns in data, insights generation, root cause analysis,automating them through Dashboards.
• Strong Python programming skills and basic experience in building Data Pipelines in Python,Airflow along with feature engineering.
• Proficiency in pandas, scikit-learn, SQL and familiarity with TensorFlow/PyTorch.

Bonus: Experience with deep learning techniques, understanding of DevOps/MLOps, including creating Docker containers and deploying to production.

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About Company

About Khatabook

We exist to empower India's 60 Million strong MSMEs. Our users' motives, methodology, expectations and behaviour are significantly different from our own when they interact with the internet and technology ecosystem which makes it harder to build for them, to solve that. Our first offering – is an Android App that has been downloaded over 10 crore+ times, which has resulted in having an active merchant base of over 9 million users.

As more businesses are adopting digital for business than ever before, Khatabook's goal can be summed up simply - Empowering merchants by simplifying their business by

• Building a complete business management platform.
• Helping businesses increase their incomes by providing them the power of technology and ammunition of insights & digital reports.
• Offering a platform catering to the specific needs of the MSME space.

We are an equal opportunity workplace. We expect your authentic, original selves at work always and stand against discrimination on the basis of caste, creed, gender, religion or background.

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