Job Description
About Engineering at Tiki
Engineering at Tiki is all about developing well-rounded technologists. Technologists who are not only hands-on architects/developers but also product builders. Engineers who also understand customer needs and business strategy first hand. Our growth will expose you to building architectures that use the next-gen technology. Our scale of data and customer base provide the opportunity for you to innovate using AI and learning. Problems you will solve on a day-to-day basis are first of its kind for a developing e-commerce market. Engineering at Tiki is a career-building opportunity.
About Retail IQ
Retail IQ team at Tiki focuses on enabling Tiki’s 1P business to optimally answer the fundamental but tough questions in order to profitably grow the business:
- What to sell?
- What price to sell at?
- Where to sell?
- How much can we sell?
- What to buy and how much?
- How to optimize the Retail and Procurement process?
The Retail IQ team works on building intelligent products using data and technology. The team needs strong engineers who are self-driven, comfortable with ambiguity, and have an analytical/data-driven approach to solve complex problems.
Our consideration criteria
- Final-year student finishing all subjects, or fresh graduate
- Able to do intern full-time for 4-6 months
- Excellent academic performance is an advantage
- Ready to grow into official positions post internship
Requirements
- Strong fundamental knowledge of data structure/algorithm, OOP, design patterns…
- Proficient with at least 1 programming language (Python/Golang/Java)
- Prior practical projects implemented with tangible results is preferred
- Familiarity with non-relational & relational databases (SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, etc) and writing complex SQL queries is an advantage
- Attitude for critical thinking and problem solving
- Strong will to learn and comfortable with handling ambiguity
What you will do
- You will work on challenging problem(s) that have a direct impact on Tiki’s growth and better customer experience
- You will design, develop, integrate and maintain technology solutions from scratch to solve these complex problems – working with smart/experienced engineers
- Collaborate with the Product and Engineering team as well as Stakeholders to build products for Tiki, especially for the Retail business.
- Work in Scrum process, using CI/CD, Cloud platforms, and Microservices architecture…
Namely, during the period of your internship, you will work on solving problems using technology to help make the following 2 key decisions for the Retail domain:
- Pricing decision: When making an online purchase, buyers compare products across different sellers/platforms and product price is a key factor for this comparison. So, price is one of the most important decisions that a platform/seller can make to determine the sales of their products. The pricing-related projects focus on building intelligent products using data and smart technology to directly impact this decision either manually or automatically.
- Procurement & Inventory decision: How to purchase goods from suppliers with optimal prices and quantities? How to make the best decision on inventory as well as how to improve the procurement process as well as make it automatic and streamlined?
Benefits
Inside our engineering team:
- We iterate constantly. There‘s no such thing as the best version of anything, just a constant stream of improvements and tests.
- We move fast, really fast. Major changes can be executed in a few days, many times just a few hours.
- We have a data-informed mindset. We try to use data to inform our decision as much as possible.
- We are independent. Most of the time, your team will not need technical assistance from other teams.
- We take risks. We‘re not afraid to challenge “best practices”.
Our attractive offers include:
- Be trained by experienced members and develop skills
- Grow with actual scope of work and through interesting challenges
- Competitive salary and benefits
- Chances to be promoted to an official position if performance is highly evaluated
- Special internal programs for Tiki employees
- Dynamic, open, and challenging working environment
- Modern office, cafeteria, library, computer gaming, HD TV platforms
