About us:
Gamezop is game-publishing company based in Gurgaon. We are a team of about 80 and a family of 40M users monthly. Here's some recent coverage on us: https://gzp.gg/NNwnEb
We operate 3 products: Gamezop, Quizzop, and SkillClash. Here are a few links you can go through to get a sense of what we do:
1. Gamezop: https://play.gamezop.com
2. SkillClash: https://www.skillclash.com
3. Quizzop: https://www.quizzop.com
Job role:
Our work at Gamezop requires us to tackle challenging problems across real-money gaming and online advertising. Within our Data Science team, some of the problems we are working on solving are:
- Churn prediction
- Content recommendation
- Fraud traffic detection
- In-game cheat detection
- Conversion probability prediction
- NLP for scraped websites
We expect the following from you:
Hygiene Factors:
- Good written and spoken English is a must
- Should have at least 3 years of experience as a Data Scientist
Distributed Algorithms & Data Pipeline Engineering:
- Good knowledge of the distributed computing paradigm and various technologies in the field (such as Apache Spark, MLlib, MapR)
- Understanding of and adherence to programming best practices
- Knowledge of database technologies, messaging queues (Postgres, Kafka, RabbitMQ)
- Experience with executing ETL on multiple sources at scale
Data Science Algorithm Development:
- Ability to quickly comprehend research papers and identify pros and cons of various proposed techniques
- Ability to break down complex algorithm development tasks into smaller, modular chunks and prioritise plans to address each chunk
- Set realistic timelines for projects - from EDA to delivery
Algorithm Validation and Quality Monitoring:
- Formulate module-level metrics that each provide a unique view into the system-level indicator
- Own maintenance of various algorithm test datasets -- end to end regression, feature regression, hold-out set etc.
- Work with the engineering team to ensure various test pipelines are built as per the requirements
Programming:
- Advanced expertise with Python
- Familiar with any other languages such as R, C++, Scala is a plus
- Good code and Git hygiene
Team Management:
- Ability to plan and coordinate efforts of a small team
- Should have led a small data science team before
- Divide project into small tasks / steps
- Identify and iron out dependencies within the company functions (DS / Engg / Product / Business)
- Ability to propose business innovations by looking at data (as opposed to starting from a given business problem and solving it with data)
This bit is not mandatory at all, but experience with any of the following is a big plus:
- Real-money gaming work experience
- Data engineering for data warehouse creation