Data Scientist

1 Month ago • 3-5 Years

About the job

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Data Scientist with 3+ years experience in data science and analytics, proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis. Advanced experience in pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and evolving AI techniques. Experience with programming languages (e.g.: Java/Python, SAS) and SQL.

About the job

About Us

Setu is working to reimagine financial products for the next billion users.

How do you put a dent in India’s economy when most of her population cannot afford insurance, credit, investments, etc. through the formal channels that you and I take for granted? Our auto-wallas cannot use Cred, our security guards cannot use Zerodha. There are several examples—you get the idea.

How can we enable them to get on such platforms?

By reducing the cost of distribution. If we break down financial products such as loans, insurance and investments into their fundamental building blocks, and offer them as APIs to businesses, they then package these APIs into highly custom apps, tailor-made for their specific customers, instead of a generic one-size-for-all approach that is the norm today.

This also enables them to go live with a fintech product or service in a matter of days, not months.

We believe that fintech will be a core part of every company’s offering. And at Setu, we’re building the fintech infrastructure that will accelerate this.

More About Setu

Setu is an acquired entity of Pine Labs, one of the fastest growing fintech companies in India and rapidly expanding its footprint in Asia, UAE, and the US. At Pine Labs, we’re looking for those who share our core belief—‘Every Day is Game Day’. We bring our best selves to work each day to realise our mission of enriching the world through the power of digital commerce and financial services. Know more about Pine Labs here!

Job Description

Importance of the role

Role

This is a mission-critical role. We are a small, diverse, agile, and high-performance engineering team. We’re looking for versatile developers who will:

Build new products and tools to crunch integration times and time to market.

Improve through peer learning and transmit them to the Setu dev ecosystem.

Take ownership and get the job done. We need role-shapers, not role takers.

One particular area of focus for us is to empower developers and users to make the most of financial data. Today, our data is locked up in silos that add friction to how data is accessed and shared. With RBI’s new Account Aggregator framework, this will change forever: data will be seamlessly shared and accessed, based entirely on user consent.

At Setu, we are leading this ecosystem shift and building developer infrastructure and user experiences to enable this change. Our APIs and SDKs will enable developers to improve existing fintech apps and build new apps that amaze all of us.

The Account Aggregator framework will usher in the next big revolution in India, and we are hiring motivated individuals to join us in this effort.

Requirements

What will you do at Setu?

Serve as lead data strategist to identify and integrate new datasets that can be leveraged from sources like bank statements, securities, and other financial data, and work closely with the product & engineering teams in the development of new data and insight products.

Identify relevant data sources and sets to mine, and collect large structured, and unstructured datasets and variables.

Devise and utilise algorithms and models to mine data stores; perform data and error analysis to improve models; clean and validate data for uniformity and accuracy.

Analyse data for trends and patterns and interpret data with clear objectives in mind.

Stay updated with financial market trends and developments.

Who is the right fit for this role?

Three or more years of experience with data science and data analytics implementations.

Proficiency with data mining, mathematics, and statistical analysis.

Advanced experience in pattern recognition, predictive modeling, and evolving AI techniques.

Experience with programming languages (e.g.: Java/Python, SAS) and SQL.

Experience with PySpark, and visualisation tools like Tableau, Excel, etc.

Experience working in cloud environments (AWS/ GCP/ Azure).

Knowledge of ML Ops will be an added advantage.

Ability to work effectively in a dynamic, research-oriented group that has several concurrent projects.

Ability to communicate effectively (verbally and in writing) with various stakeholders and can crisply articulate customer challenges.

Most importantly, someone who can get stuff done!

Benefits

Why Setu?

We will spare no efforts to ensure that Setu empowers you to do the most important and impactful work of your career—

Opportunity to work closely with the founding team who built and scaled public infrastructure such as UPI, GST, Aadhaar, etc.

We care deeply about your growth. So we work hard to provide you with—

Exposure to other verticals such as product, business, design, etc.

A fully stocked library and unlimited book budget.

Tickets to conferences and industry events.

Fortnightly learning sessions where we invite both team members and external experts to teach you something new.

Learning and development allowance that gives access to subscriptions, courses, certifications, music classes, and much more. Grow, learn, and improve with Setu!

Kick-ass benefits including comprehensive health insurance for you and your family, personal accident and term life insurance, access to mental health counsellors, extraordinary coffee, and a beautiful office with lots of solid wood and natural light.

We work hard to make sure our team is diverse and varied. We interview and hire purely on merit, skill, and competence—everything else is irrelevant.

Join us if you want to be part of a company that’s building infrastructure that will directly impact financial inclusion and improve millions of lives. No cashbacks, no growth-hacks, no bullshit. Just an audacious mission, and an obsession with craftsmanship in code.