Bounce - Data Scientist

Job Description - Data Scientist

Introduction

Our success in making our cities congestion & pollution free, is highly dependent on how closely we study & how accurately we predict our customers, their preferences, market, demand, competition, pricing, traffic, security, you name it, literally! And our data science team does this. 

We are looking for an experienced Senior Data Scientist to join our talented engineering team. As our data guru, you- ll be responsible for analyzing our large data set and making recommendations that will impact major business decisions. We- re looking for a proven technical leader that can excel in a fun, fast-moving startup environment and help us elevate the customer experience.

Job Summary & Responsibilities - 

- Manage the continuous improvement of data science and analytics by researching industry best practices and staying up-to-date on analytical practices

- Integrate data science solutions into current business processes

- Rapidly prototype early-stage solutions and design / evaluate predictive models and advanced algorithms to drive business decisions throughout the customer lifecycle (prospecting, acquisition, underwriting, fraud, collections, enhancing customer experience)

- Understand the systems and the business processes that populate those systems with data

- Carry out data processing including statistical analysis, variable selection, and dimensionality reduction, custom attribute engineering, as well as the evaluation of new data sources

- Leverage methods from diverse disciplines such as traditional modeling, machine learning, deep learning, artificial intelligence, statistical modeling, information theory, information retrieval and other areas to gain customer insights, draw conclusions and work with business partners to put those insights into action

- Participate in data architecture decisions and partner with technology teams to implement models/algorithms in production

- Help document your assumptions and methodologies, as well as carry out validation and testing to facilitate peer reviews and independent model validation

- Think strategically on a higher level, proposing new business metrics or suggesting alternatives, creating highly interpretive models that imply new context and new semantics for data

Requirements

- 3-5+ years of experience in Data Science/Machine Learning

- Familiarity with a broad set of modeling techniques; aptitude in mathematics, probability, algorithms

- Familiarity with experimentation methods, hypothesis testing

- Ability to collaborate with teams across the organization regarding business problem formulation, solution architecture, production integration

- Ability to mentor junior team members

- Ability to communicate with peer and leadership teams on project scope, expectations, progress and roadmap

- Knowledge of data query and ETL operations in SQL/Pig/Hive

- Hands-on programming/implementation ability in R/Python/Java

About Us Bounce (erstwhile Metro Bikes) WickedRide

We all are aware that the cities are getting congested. Moving from one place to another, be it for work, fun or leisure is a pain. At times we spend planning how to commute in detail than planning for the actual work:)

Distances and availability of commute are deciding everything we do.

Cabs were a boon but it congests cities since the average occupancy in a car is less than 1.2 persons at any point in time. The waiting time for cabs has increased, prices have gone up and the car takes substantially more time to commute compared to a scooter.

Our solution is simple and light on the pocket and we help you adopt mass rapid transport as well for the longest part of your commute.

Imagine a simple solution, where you open an app, find the nearest scooter, electric pedelecs, select the bike, get an OTP, key in the OTP on the scooter and the vehicle unlocks and you start and head to your destination.

Once you reach your destination, you end the trip on the keypad of the bike, walk away. You pay for the distance and time of your commute only. The drop off point becomes a pick up point to the next user. Check this video :) goo.gl/2sGNPc

We further aim at decongesting the roads by encouraging commuters to choose public transport by providing seamless First mile and Last mile connectivity solution in India, through our bike rentals.

Solving these problems matter for tomorrow's India. Join us in this mission, do things that matter and we promise one hell of a fun ride along.

From the Media

https://tech.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/startups/metro-bikes-raises-12-2m-from-sequoia-india-accel-partners-rebrands-as bounce/65328870

https://inc42.com/buzz/bounce-buys-chinese-bike-rentals-startup-ofos-india-assets/

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/karnataka/2018/sep/06/bounce-your-way-around-town-with-bike-rentals-1868077.html

https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/newsbuzz/metro-bikes-rebrands-itself-as-bounce-post-rs-84-crore-funding/articleshow/65331527.cms

http://www.clowork.in/startup-resources/meet-the-founder-of-bounce-vivekananda-hallekere/