Senior Software Engineer - Geo

Senior Software Engineer

GroundTruth is an advertising platform that turns real-world behavior into marketing that drives in-store visits and other real business results. We use observed real-world consumer behavior, including location and purchase data, to create targeted advertising campaigns across all screens, measure how consumers respond, and uncover unique insights to help optimize ongoing and future marketing efforts.

With this focus on media, measurement, and insights, we provide marketers with tools to deliver media campaigns that drive measurable impact, such as in-store visits, sales, and more.

GroundTruth seeks a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in designing 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 a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) on our Geo Team, you will build solutions that add new capabilities to our platform.

You will:

• Develop and maintain hands-on, customer-facing applications using Python/Fast API/Rest API.
• Develop and integrate geospatial services and APIs using tools like Mapbox, working with location datasets such as POIs, polygons etc.
• Implement and optimize geospatial processing, spatial queries, and geofencing using spatial databases and indexing techniques to support location-based advertising systems.
• Collaborate with management, stakeholders, and the team to evaluate, plan, and deliver projects involving advertising software systems, components, and features
• Contribute to a culture of transparency by maintaining clear documentation, structured processes, and effective communication.
• Facilitate the team's learning, growth, and maturity in their agile practices
• Write production-ready front-end and back-end code integrated with a continuous delivery and deployment pipeline on AWS.
• Participate in and improve team Agile practices — supporting learning, growth, and technical maturity.
• 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:

• 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:

• B.Tech./B.E./M.Tech./MCA or equivalent in computer science with 6+ years experience in software development.
• 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
• Strong hands-on experience with Rest APIs, FAST API and front end
• Experience in writing analytical queries using SQL
• Experience in Airflow
• Experience in Docker
• Proficient in Git

How you can impress us:

• Knowledge of Angular, React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
• 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