Data Engineer
Stealth Startup
2 - 5 years
Gurugram, Ambala
Posted: 19/06/2026
Job Description
We're building a recommendation engine that surfaces the right products to the right player at the right moment inside our in-game store. A core challenge: we have limited in-app behavioural data today, so the system must rely heavily on external market signals to make great recommendations from day one.
As our first Data Engineer, you will own the data infrastructure that makes this possible. You'll build the pipelines that collect, process, and serve these signals into our real-time ranking system.
This is a foundational hire. The entire recommendation enginefrom Deal Quality Scores to seasonal trendsdepends on the pipelines you build.
- Own external data pipelinesscrapers for Flipkart/Amazon bestseller rankings, PriceHunt/Smartprix for price benchmarking, Google Trends API for brand and category demand signals
- Build the Deal Quality Score pipelinea daily batch job that computes a competitiveness score for every product in our catalogue, stored in Redis for sub-millisecond lookup at serving time
- Maintain a seasonal and festive calendarstructured data store for trend overlays (IPL, Diwali, back-to-school, etc.)
- Design and own the in-store event schema in ClickHouse that will power behavioural cohorts as in-app data accumulates
- Build ETL infrastructure (S3 + Spark/Glue) for longer-horizon trend and market data
- Own data quality and freshness SLAsyou are responsible when a signal the reco engine depends on breaks silently
- 35 years of data engineering experience, ideally at a startup or product company
- Strong Pythonyou write clean, production-grade pipeline code, not just notebooks
- Experience building and maintaining web scrapers or data collection pipelines at scale
- Hands-on experience with a workflow orchestratorAirflow, Prefect, or equivalent
- Solid SQL; experience with ClickHouse or another OLAP database is a strong plus
- Familiarity with Redis as a serving layeryou understand TTL, key design, and cache invalidation
- Comfortable with AWSS3, Glue, ECS; you can set up infra without needing DevOps help
- You care about data qualityyou monitor pipelines, set up alerts, and feel responsible when something breaks
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