What you will do:

• you’ll be working on our core data platform and infrastructure powering business workflows, decisions and data science workloads.
  
• You will be responsible for architecting and scaling our data infrastructure, this includes our transactional and analytical databases, with focus on solving for scale and intelligence.
  
• Your work will be a key enabler of this muscle, and you’ll mentor the younger engineers (in transaction processing, cloud engineering as well as big data backend) towards that objective.
• Evaluate our existing data model in production and its suitability for upcoming scale and business goals
• Include decision model training and deployment in consideration when performing the above . Help our data scientist in acquiring the data they need.
• With existing team, plan controlled migrations from existing to new data model (if required)
• Mentor SSEs in the team to become better data oriented engineers; provide feedback on their design notes for their Jira(s) in the sprint.
• Evaluate and improve our infrastructure to support training and deploying decision models.
• Develop continuous knowledge about the business by staying in touch with the various stakeholders.
• Look for and minimize wastage in infrastructure cost.

What makes you a great fit:

• Exceptional expertise in building data systems – hands on knowledge of different types of databases.
• Cloud engineering along with Infra as Code exposure.
• Experience in Linux and python usage for problem solving.
• 3+ years experience designing and building data infrastructure of a fast scaling B2C product.
• 2+ years experience supporting a data science team.
• Looks out and well versed with Open Source Big Data tools (Parquet, Spark, Hadoop, Presto).
• 5+ years experience mentoring younger engineers.

About the Company:

• NIRA aspires to be the pre-eminent financial brand for the mass market or "Middle India". 
• We already have customers in over 5,000 towns and cities, and we're growing quickly (15% MoM for the last 20 months!). It's a very exciting time to join us. We have over 300+ employees.
• Today, we receive 15000 new loan applications daily from across 4000 cities in India, and we are growing 15% MoM. People reach us at their time of need; we score and offer them credit via our app. Money reaches their bank account within 24 hrs of applying.
• We are addressing head-on a big challenge. It's also a great opportunity from both a commercial and societal impact perspective. We can improve lives for millions. It is no exaggeration to say that our addressable market will be 400mm within 5 years.