Closing on: Sep 30, 2026

Job Category: Engineering

Job Type: Full Time

Job Location: Gurgaon

team: product (fashion, taste, personalization)

why this role exists

polopan is building consumer ai where taste, context, and judgment matter more than raw scale.

our models are only as good as the truthfulness of the data beneath them.

this role exists to make sure our catalog and product data pipelines are:

clean
explainable
trustworthy
hard to lie to

we care less about how quick things move, and more about whether they ever need to be questioned again.

what you’ll be responsible for

building catalog data pipelines
design and maintain pipelines that ingest, normalize, enrich, and version product/catalog data
define schemas that age well as the product evolves
handle messy, incomplete, and inconsistent data without hiding the mess
make catalog data usable for downstream systems (search, recommendations, personalization)
owning data clarity end-to-end
decide what should be logged and what should not
ensure every dataset has a clear purpose and owner




detect and debug silent failures, drift, and data pollution
make pipelines observable, debuggable, and boring in the best way
making decisions irreversible
build systems that allow the team to confidently:
trust metrics
kill features
iterate without second-guessing the data
reduce ambiguity for product and machine learning decisions, not add to it
setting engineering standards early
establish patterns for data hygiene, versioning, and validation
write documentation that explains why something exists, not just how
push back on over-engineering and under-thinking equally
What We Care About (more Than Speed)

we don’t measure this role by:

number of tickets closed
lines of code written
how fast you ship

We Measure It By:

how much confusion disappears after your work exists
how rarely your systems need revisiting
how confidently others can build on top of what you’ve built

sometimes deadlines will exist — not to rush

📌 founding data pipeline engineer (Gurugram)
🏢 polopan
📍 Gurugram