Data Scientist

About Tajir

Our mission is to make a significant portion of the economy of Pakistan radically more efficient.

Stores in Pakistan have been buying products in the same way for nearly a century. Why should 20 trucks deliver to the same store in a single day? Why do people travel on bikes, needlessly burning fuel, to collect orders on scraps of paper? Why do store owners wait restlessly for someone to visit once a week to collect an order?

Tajir is a radical break from the past. We offer an app where stores can buy everything they need, delivered reliably the next day. We drastically reduce the number of vehicles on the road with efficient, centralized delivery, so both store owners and manufacturers enjoy higher profits. With $150B in purchases made by retailers annually, even modest efficiency gains have an outsized economic impact.

We are backed by Kleiner Perkins (early investors in Google, Amazon) and Y Combinator (early investors in Coinbase, Airbnb, Dropbox). Learn more about us on Forbes and Geo News.

What you’ll do

Tajir has real-time data on customer preferences that no wholesaler or distributor has. This lets us offer an unrivalled experience to our customers.

Our team of Data Scientists leverages this data to do the following:

• Design algorithms. Design algorithms to support our operations, from purchase orders all the way to delivery. You’ll test these algorithms on real and simulated data.
• Find answers in data. What are common features of our strongest customers? What products are bought together? Where are our delivery operations weakest? Your role is to answer novel questions by diving head first into data.
• Enable data-driven decisions. If it takes a week to answer a data question, people will make poor decisions using instinct and superstitions. Your job is to ensure this does not happen by facilitating rapid answers to all data queries.
  
  

Expect to ship code within your first week of joining, then take on more and more responsibility quickly. Everyone on our team fondly remembers their first few months at Tajir as a time of rapid personal growth!

What we are looking for

• Humility. You treat others with the same kindness, patience, and respect, regardless of seniority, class, or gender.
• Hunger to learn.
• Excitement to solve complex optimization problems.
• You are excited at the chance to meet our customers, to learn from them and help us decide what to build next.
  
  

Requirements

• Strong mathematical ability and attention to detail
• 0 to 5 years of experience (fresh graduates are welcome!)
• Willingness to learn SQL and Python.