Kora

Kora is a Pan African payment infrastructure that simplifies pay-ins, payouts, and settlements for businesses. With a single payment integration, businesses can scale safely across Africa, offering plug-and-play payment solutions to launch tailored pay...

Diversified Financial Services

Financials

51-250 (110)

Founded 2017

3 open positions

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Machine Learning Engineer

1 hour, 53 minutes ago

Nigeria

Full-time

Mid Level

Software Development

Apache Airflow Apache Spark Feature Engineering GCP MLOps Python SQL Vertex AI

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Kora

Diversified Financial Services

51-250

Founded 2017

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Description

Design and ship per-merchant payment volume forecasting systems, including time-series decomposition and uncertainty estimation.
Build and maintain fraud and anomaly detection across the payment stack with tiered alerting tied to merchant risk profiles.
Own the end-to-end merchant segmentation system using hybrid rule-based and data-driven approaches.
Instrument deployed models with drift detection, retraining triggers, and evaluation pipelines in Vertex AI.
Develop automation tooling such as Airflow DAGs, pipeline scaffolding, and operational support tooling.
Collaborate on product and strategic thinking related to ML-driven business outcomes.
Monitor model performance in production and close the loop between model outputs and business impact.
Design systems for batch-first data infrastructure and ensure they are reliable and maintainable.

Requirements

3+ years of experience as an ML engineer in a production environment.
Strong Python skills and comfort using Spark for large-scale data processing.
Experience with time-series modeling, including decomposition, forecasting, and anomaly detection.
Solid understanding of the ML lifecycle as an end-to-end discipline.
Ability to work deliberately with batch infrastructure.
High ownership mentality and a proactive approach to identifying and fixing problems.
Ability to identify gaps in data-driven business processes and propose solutions.
Familiarity with Vertex AI, including custom training jobs, model registry, pipelines, and monitoring, is a strong plus.
Experience in payments, fintech, or another domain with label quality, distribution shift, and operational constraints is a strong plus.
Exposure to African market dynamics is a strong plus.
n8n or similar automation/workflow tooling experience is a strong plus.
The role places more emphasis on thinking quality than on credentials or certifications.

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 per month.
A day off on your birthday.
Employee interest groups and supportive communities within the company.

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