Kora
51 - 200 employees
Korapay allows businesses and institutions to scale faster by providing them with a robust and powerful core payment engine that eliminates the complications associated with simple and bulk transactions.With our payment solutions, you can easily accept or send payments.
Machine Learning Engineer
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🕒 May 8
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Kora
51 - 200 employees
Korapay allows businesses and institutions to scale faster by providing them with a robust and powerful core payment engine that eliminates the complications associated with simple and bulk transactions.With our payment solutions, you can easily accept or send payments.
📋 Description
• - Design and ship a per-merchant payment volume forecasting system: time-series decomposition, Africa-specific event calendars (salary cycles, MNO maintenance windows, public holidays), quantile regression for uncertainty bounds • - Build and maintain fraud/ anomaly detection across the payment stack (residual-based and model-driven) with tiered alerting logic mapped to merchant risk profiles. • - Own the dynamic merchant segmentation system end-to-end: rule-based and data-driven hybrid, percentile thresholds grounded in EDA, segment-transition features as ML inputs • - Instrument and monitor deployed models: drift detection, retraining triggers, and evaluation pipelines via Vertex AI • - Build automation tooling that sits alongside the core ML work: Airflow DAGs, pipeline scaffolding, and tooling to reduce operational toil • - Contribute to product and strategic thinking.
🎯 Requirements
• **Our Stack** • - Apache Spark and Airflow • - Google Vertex AI • - Python • - SQL • - GCS/BigQuery • **What We're Looking For** • - 3+ years as an ML engineer in a production environment • - Strong Python and comfort with Spark for large-scale data processing • - Experience with time-series modelling: decomposition, forecasting, anomaly detection • - Solid grasp of the ML lifecycle as a unified discipline • - Ability to work with batch infrastructure and design for it deliberately • - High ownership mentality: you notice problems and fix them as opposed to waiting to be assigned • - Ability to identify gaps in data-driven business processes and come up with solutions • Strong plus: • - Familiarity with Vertex AI (custom training jobs, model registry, pipelines, monitoring) • - Experience in payments, fintech, or any domain where label quality, distribution shift, and operational constraints are real problems • - Exposure to African market dynamics • - n8n or similar automation/workflow tooling experience
🏖️ Benefits
• - Health insurance • - Sponsored and tailored training • - Paid parental leave • - Paid time-off • - Flexible work style • - Low-interest loans • - Group Life Insurance • - Access to up to four therapy sessions monthly • - Day off on your birthday 🎂 🎁 🎉 • - Employee interest groups that provide supportive communities within Kora • - Great company culture and the opportunity to work with a highly collaborative team building something great!
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