A bit about us
GroundTruth is a media platform that drives in-store visits and other real business results. Using observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, we create targeted advertising campaigns across all screens for advertisers. We then measure how consumers respond to the campaigns, including if they physically show up to a store location or website, to understand the real business results generated by a brand’s advertising.
Learn more at groundtruth.com.
We believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work in 2021, 2022, 2023 & 2025! Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.
GroundTruth seeks an Engineering Manager with strong expertise in planning and building hands-on customer-facing applications to join our Geo team. The Geo Team is responsible for ingesting Geo data. The Geo Team builds and develops APIs, manage POI data and provide processed data to integrate with our Ads Manager, Location Manager and Blueprint Manager platform which feed into how GroundTruth’s advertising creates Real Business Results.
We take pride in building an Engineering Team composed of strong communicators who collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders to find compromises and solutions. Our engineers are organized and detail-oriented team players who are problem solvers with a maker mindset. As an Engineering Manager (EM) on our Geo Team, you will build solutions that add new capabilities to our platform.
Role: Engineer Manager
Location: Remote, India
You will:
- Strong expertise in planning and developing hands-on customer-facing applications.
- Proactively work to develop the skills and behaviors of each team member, coaching and mentoring them toward success in their tasks and careers
- Collaborate with management, stakeholders, and the team to evaluate, plan, and deliver projects involving advertising software systems, components, and features
- Promote transparency regarding the team’s activities across the organization through documentation, structured processes, and effective communications
- Facilitate the team’s learning, growth, and maturity in their agile practices
- Lead by example writing production-ready front-end and backend-code with a continuous delivery & deployment pipeline on AWS
- Support employees by having regular 1:1 conversation, providing feedback, planning for and conducting quarterly reviews, scheduling time-off, facilitating training, providing recognition, and managing any personal or performance issues
- Create and maintain various ingestion pipelines for the GroundTruth platform.
- Build the infrastructure required for optimal extraction, transformation, and loading of data from a wide variety of data sources using SQL, GIS and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
- Contribute ideas to improve the location platform.
You are:
This is our ideal wish list, but most people don’t check every box on every job description. If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.
- Detail Oriented- The little things matter
- Adaptable and able to pivot to meet demands and carry out expectations
- Organized and have demonstrated the ability to prioritize and deliver work in a timely manner
- Able to work under strict deadlines and be able to prioritize a heavy workload
- A team-player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help out when/where needed
- Self-Sufficient and not afraid to take the lead and manage tasks independently
- Coachable and open to feedback
- Respectful- We treat each other with respect and assume the best of one another
You have:
- Tech./B.E./M.Tech./MCA or equivalent in computer science with 8+ years experience in technology and 2+ years of experience in management
- Experience with GIS, POI/Location data ingestion pipeline.
- Experience with AWS Stack used for Data engineering EC2, S3, EMR, ECS, Lambda, and Step functions etc.
- Hands on experience with Python/Java for orchestration of data pipelines
- Experience in writing analytical queries using SQL
- Experience in Airflow
- Experience in Docker
- Proficient in Git
How you can impress us:
- Knowledge of Rest APIs, FAST API and front end
- Any experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, Map Reduce, Pig, PySpark is a plus
- Knowledge of shell scripting
- Experience with BI tools like Looker and Tableau
- Experience with DB design and maintenance
- Experience with Amazon Web Services and Dockers
- Configuration management and QA practices
What We Offer
At GroundTruth, we want our employees to be comfortable with their benefits so they can focus on doing the work they love.
- Parental leave- Maternity and Paternity
- Flexible Time Offs (Earned Leaves, Sick Leaves, Birthday leave, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)
- In Office Daily Catered Breakfast, Lunch, Snacks and Beverages
- Health cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents
- Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines
- Wellness/Gym Reimbursement
- Pet Expense Reimbursement
- Childcare Expenses and reimbursements
- Employee referral program
- Education reimbursement program
- Skill development program
- Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program).
- Internet reimbursement/Postpaid cell phone bill/or both.
- Birthday treat reimbursement
- Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as Voluntary Provident Fund and employee and employer contribution up to 12% Basic
- Creche reimbursement
- Co-working space reimbursement
- National Pension System employer match
- Meal card for tax benefit
- Special benefits on salary account
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
To ensure your application is properly reviewed, we kindly ask that you submit your resume and optional cover letter through the designated application portal. Applications submitted via the "Contact Us" form on our website will not be considered.
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About GroundTruth
GroundTruth is the leading location-based marketing and advertising technology company. Brands, agencies, small businesses, and non-profits trust our performance-driven solutions to help them reach consumers during moments of intent that generate important business outcomes. GroundTruth’s suite of geo-contextual omnichannel products and services are available at scale through our self-serve advertising platform, managed services, and industry reseller partnerships. GroundTruth’s marketing platform is powered by a unique data set called "visitation data" accredited by the Media Rating Council (MRC). Our proprietary cleansing processes combine contextual mapping technology (BlueprintsTM), owned and operated properties, and third-party mobile location data, together yielding over 30 billion visits annually.
Learn more: www.groundtruth.com
