Remote/Full-time
Competitive salary in USD – $6k-$8k
About Rafeeq
Rafeeq is a rapidly growing on-demand delivery platform dedicated to providing a fast, reliable, and seamless experience for our customers, partners, and riders. We are building the future of delivery, and we are looking for talented and passionate individuals to join our team and help us solve the complex challenges of a modern logistics network.
The Role
We are seeking a Team Lead / Senior ML Engineer to lead our ML team while working hands-on to build our core ETA and time prediction systems. This is a dual-impact role: you will provide technical leadership and mentorship to the team while personally owning and developing critical prediction models that power our delivery platform.
What Makes This Role Unique
- Leadership + Hands-On: You'll lead a team of 2-3 ML engineers while building production models yourself
- Core Problem: Focus on solving our #1 challenge - accurate ETA prediction for food delivery. Also, lead dispatch, surge pricing and incentives optimization, which are heavily based on ETA
- Founding Team: Shape the ML function from the ground up in a fast-growing startup
- Global Team: Work with international talent, remote-first culture, compensation in foreign currency
What You'll Do
Technical Leadership (40% of time)
- Lead and mentor a small team of senior ML engineers working on dispatch, surge pricing, and incentive systems
- Define technical roadmap and architecture for ML systems across the platform
- Establish best practices for model development, deployment, and monitoring
- Conduct final interviews for ML team candidates (working closely with HR)
- Collaborate with Product and Engineering leadership on strategic initiatives
Hands-On ML Engineering (60% of time)
- Own ETA Prediction Systems: Design, build, and deploy ML models for restaurant preparation time, courier travel time, and dynamic delivery estimates