GroundTruth - Manager - Engineering

GroundTruth is a leading media platform company powered by real-world behaviors. Brands, agencies, small businesses, and non-profits trust GroundTruth to generate real business results. GroundTruth's suite of geo-contextual display and video advertising products and services are available at scale through their self-serve omnichannel 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).

Learn more: www.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 for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023).

Role: Engineering Manager (Advertising User Telemetry)

Location: Gurgaon, India / Remote

About the Advertising User Telemetry Team

The user telemetry team is responsible for the real-time and batch systems that collect, validate, enrich, and contextualize user location signals to produce accredited visits to known real-world locations and warehouse that data for further offline business purposes such as analytics, reporting, forecasting, attribution, and billing. We rely heavily on AWS using Kinesis streams a variety of big data technologies including Athena, EMR, Spark, Lambda, and Fargate.

You will:

- 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

You are:

- 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:

- Masters degree/B.Tech or 8+ years experience in technology

- The following skills/certifications: Python, SQL, AWS

- Additional nice to have skills/certifications: Athena, Lambda, EMR, Spark, Glue, Step Functions, Hadoop, Kinesis, Orc, Parquet, Perl, Awk, Redshift

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 & Company Holidays)

- In Office Daily Catered Lunch

- Fully stocked snacks/beverages

- Health coverage cover for any hospitalization. Covers both nuclear family and parents

- Covid home quarantine cover

- Tele-med that offers discounts on health checkups and medicines

- Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

- Pet Expense Reimbursement

- Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

- Employee assistance programs

- Education reimbursement program

- Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

- Internet reimbursement

- Home office set up

- Employee Provident Fund Scheme offering different tax saving options such as VPF and employee and employer contribution up to 12% basic