Founding Data platform architect (50L to 1cr)

12 years

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🧭 About Us –
We are a venture-backed, stealth-stage technology company building next-generation matchmaking and relationship platforms. Our mission is to reimagine how people connect, using AI, community, and content as our building blocks. We’re not building another dating app — we’re creating an experience where users feel: “This app gets me.” At the core of our product is a real-time, ML recommendation engine — similar to Spotify for song moods or TikTok for discovery. We are well funded and backed by marquee VCs in India and US Location: Gurgaon Function: Data Engineering and ML Infrastructure Type: Full-time 🎯 The Role We are looking for a Founding Data Platform Architect to design, build, and scale the data platform and infrastructure that powers our core recommendation systems and personalization engines. This is a 0→10 phase role — your architectural decisions and early hires will shape how our product thinks, recommends, and adapts. You'll also play a player-coach role: contributing directly to code and architecture while hiring and leading a small team of data engineers as we grow. You'll work hand-in-hand with our ML team to build data adapters and interfaces for model training, serving, and experimentation. 🧠 Our Philosophy We believe: ● Great data + Good models = Great recommendations ● Good data + Great models = Average recommendationsThat’s why we’re investing in data infrastructure from our inception and foundation. ️ What You'll Do ● Architect the entire data platform from scratch — including event capture, batch and streaming pipelines, and feature engineering ● Build the foundational event streams that capture swipes, likes, video views, and profile interactions ● Design and implement a feature store and embedding pipeline to power matchmaking, feed ranking, and personalization ● Collaborate with ML engineers to support data adapters, model input schemas, and real-time scoring interfaces ● Define standards for data quality, governance, freshness, observability, and security across teams ● Own the strategy for tools, schemas, governance, scalability, and future-proofing as models evolve ● Recruit, mentor, and lead a small team of data engineers and analysts over time 💡 Ideal Profile You’re a systems thinker who starts with data and designs for scale. You’ve likely been at early-stage or high-scale consumer platforms — social, gaming, transactions, or media. Trait What We’re Looking For Experience 6–12 years building scalable data systems in fast-moving environments Industry Fit Experience supporting RecSys, ML, or content feeds in social or consumer platforms Architecture Skills Designed systems spanning batch + streaming, raw → clean → features → serving Leadership Ability to mentor junior engineers or build small teams from scratch ML Awareness Worked closely with ML teams; understands feature engineering, embedding stores, retrieval systems and typical models Product Empathy Understands how data impacts user experience, not just analyticsTools Fluency Kafka, Spark, Flink, Airflow, dbt, Redis, BigQuery, Feast, Terraform, Pick your best tool for the job 🌟 Nice to Haves ● Experience with graph modeling for users/interactions ● Familiarity with privacy-aware infrastructure (GDPR, PII, consent) ● Exposure to A/B testing platforms or online experimentation infrastructure 🚀 Why Join Us Now ● You’ll be the first data architect at a company where recommendation is the product ● Your platform will directly impact how people form meaningful relationships ● You’ll shape our data + ML infra, hire the next engineers, and scale with us to millions of users ● Significant ESOPs and wealth creation with market competitive cash compensation

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