Data Scientist – Housing- Mumbai

deepak Last Updated : 10 Nov, 2014
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Housing.com is looking for a Data Scientist to be a part of our growing and very-passionate-about-data Data Science Lab. As a data scientist, you will get to design and develop data-driven products and features. You will learn and employ the latest in data technologies to power these products. You will develop amazing consumer-facing applications as well as our in-house analytics platform.

Designation – Data Scientist

Location – Mumbai

About employerHousing

Job description:

Responsibilities

  • Apply machine learning techniques on Housing’s unique real estate data to come with innovative products and features that will redefine real-estate on web
  • Extract and analyze our web usage data to help us decide what features click with the users.
  • Design experiments and success metrics to test out new product ideas
  • Do ground-breaking work in optimizing logistics of our huge operations team with data-driven optimization algorithms
  • Analyze user behavior and develop User Recommendation Systems; come up with new ideas and technologies to wow our users
  • Work with product managers and designers to build amazing consumer facing data driven products
  • Be responsible to drive our data and technology blogs
  • Design and build tools for our Analytics teams

Qualification and Skills Required

  • Strong background in Machine Learning, Statistics or Information Retrieval
  • Fluency with at least in scripting language such as Python
  • Familiarity with relational databases and SQL
  • Endless ideas about how to leverage Housing’s unique data set
  • Critical thinking: ability to track down complex data and engineering issues, evaluate different algorithmic approaches, and analyze data to solve problems
  • Creativity: you can conceive of new data driven products, features, and technologies
  • Results: you prioritize, focusing on ideas and features that will have significant, measurable impact
  • Planning & estimation: ability to set and meet your own project objectives & milestones
  • Ability to coordinate effectively with team members in engineering, design, and product
  • Strong computer science fundamentals
  • Experience with data analysis & visualization using libraries and tools like R, SciPy, Scikit-learn
  • Familiarity with web frameworks like Django a definite plus
  • Some experience working with large datasets and NoSQL solutions like Hadoop, MongoDB

Interested people can apply for this job can mail their CV to [email protected] with subject as Data Scientist – Housing- Mumbai

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