Data Scientist, Intern (For FAST-NUCES)

About Tajir

Our mission is to make a significant portion of the economy of Pakistan radically more efficient.

Stores in Pakistan have been buying products in the same way for nearly a century. Why should 20 trucks deliver to the same store in a single day? Why do people travel on bikes, burning fuel needlessly, to collect orders on scraps of paper? Why do store owners wait restlessly for someone to visit once a week to collect an order?

Tajir is a radical break from the past. We offer an app where stores can buy everything they need, delivered reliably the next day. We drastically reduce the number of vehicles on the road with efficient, centralized delivery, so both store owners and manufacturers enjoy higher profits. With $150B in purchases made by retailers annually, even modest efficiency gains have an outsized economic impact.

We are backed by Kleiner Perkins (early investors in Google, Amazon) and Y Combinator (early investors in Coinbase, Airbnb, Dropbox). Learn more about us on Forbes and Geo News.

What you’ll do

Tajir’s internship program is designed to rapidly develop your data science skills.

Our internship program is unique in two main ways:

• You will work on important projects with real customer-facing impact.
• The internship program is an extended interview to a full-time offer. On the last day of the internship, we make full-time offers to interns who impress us, with no further interviews required. Spend your final year in peace!
  
  

We pride ourselves on the mentorship we provide to interns and junior engineers and love seeing new teammates blossom!

Expect to hit the ground running:

• Week 1: Learn how we work & ship your first code.
• Weeks 2-3: Work on minor feature requests and bug fixes.
• Weeks 4-8: Ship major features.
  
  

What we are looking for

• You are humble. You treat others with the same kindness, patience, and respect, regardless of seniority, class, or gender.
• You are hungry to learn.
• You are excited at the chance to meet our customers, to learn from them and help us decide what to build next.
  
  

Requirements

• You are in the second-to-last year of your university, and will graduate in 2026.
• Really, really good at SQL.
  
  

(Very, very) Nice to have

• You have built something cool outside of university or professional life. Without exception, we have hired every engineer who has shown us an impressive personal project.
• You have made a substantial contribution to open source code.
  
  

Our tech stack

We do not screen candidates by their experience with a specific tech stack. If you are a great engineer, you can adopt any new tools easily!

That said, because everyone asks – our Android app is built with Java and Kotlin using an MVVM Clean architecture. Our back end is built with Python and Flask and deployed to Google Cloud as Docker images. We use PostgreSQL for transactional data, and BigQuery for analytical data.

Application timeline

• 9 March: Application deadline
• 28 March: Online test submission deadline
• 16 - 30 April: Onsite test
• Final interviews: Subject to availability
  
  

Tajir is a radical break from the past. We offer an app where stores can buy everything they need, delivered reliably the next day. We drastically reduce the number of vehicles on the road with efficient, centralized delivery, so both store owners and manufacturers enjoy higher profits. With $150B in purchases made by retailers annually, even modest efficiency gains have an outsized economic impact.