• Coach and mentor engineers—supporting growth in technical skills, ownership, and career progression • Partner with stakeholders and engineering leadership to evaluate, plan, and deliver API-first projects across advertising systems, services, and features • Drive transparency and alignment through documentation, structured processes, and clear cross-functional communication • Strengthen agile practices and continuously improve the team’s delivery predictability and maturity • Lead by example: write production-ready backend (and supporting frontend where needed) code, and ship via CI/CD on AWS • Support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, quarterly reviews, recognition, time-off planning, training, and performance management when needed

• Manage and grow a distributed team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, providing consistent feedback, and supporting individual performance and career development. • Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the Usage squad's roadmap, strategy, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with overall company mission and customer impact. • Guide the team through the full project lifecycle, from early technical design and scoping to delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes within the Usage domain (e.g., billing engine, cost management and billing app, reconciliation systems). • Act as a project manager, facilitating collaboration with Product, DealOps, GTM, Pricing and Monetization, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads to remove blockers and ensure coordinated delivery across service boundaries. • Foster a high-trust, security-first team culture that embraces thoughtful AI-assisted development practices to enhance engineering workflows and eliminate toil. • Contribute to hiring and talent acquisition efforts, partnering with People Ops to attract and retain a diverse group of engineers.

• Manage and grow a distributed team of engineers, conducting regular 1:1s, providing consistent feedback, and supporting individual performance and career development. • Partner with product management and engineering leadership to shape the Usage squad's roadmap, strategy, and OKRs, ensuring alignment with overall company mission and customer impact. • Guide the team through the full project lifecycle, from early technical design and scoping to delivery and post-launch iteration, ensuring high-quality and timely outcomes within the Usage domain (e.g., billing engine, cost management and billing app, reconciliation systems). • Act as a project manager, facilitating collaboration with Product, DealOps, GTM, Pricing and Monetization, Support, and adjacent AppCore squads to remove blockers and ensure coordinated delivery across service boundaries. • Foster a high-trust, security-first team culture that embraces thoughtful AI-assisted development practices to enhance engineering workflows and eliminate toil. • Contribute to hiring and talent acquisition efforts, partnering with People Ops to attract and retain a diverse group of engineers.

Role Description GroundTruth is looking for an Engineering Manager 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, building and developing APIs, managing POI data, and providing processed data to integrate with our Ads Manager, Location Manager, and Blueprint Manager platform. As an Engineering Manager on our Geo Team, you will build solutions that add new capabilities to our platform. You will: - Coach and mentor engineers—supporting growth in technical skills, ownership, and career progression - Partner with stakeholders and engineering leadership to evaluate, plan, and deliver API-first projects across advertising systems, services, and features - Drive transparency and alignment through documentation, structured processes, and clear cross-functional communication - Strengthen agile practices and continuously improve the team’s delivery predictability and maturity - Lead by example: write production-ready backend (and supporting frontend where needed) code, and ship via CI/CD on AWS - Support engineers through regular 1:1s, feedback, quarterly reviews, recognition, time-off planning, training, and performance management when needed Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering (or equivalent practical experience) - 8+ years of experience in technology (software development, architecture, or related areas) - Strong experience designing and building customer-facing applications using Python REST APIs and FastAPI - Hands-on Python experience building services and data pipelines - Experience with GIS, POI/Location data ingestion pipeline - Strong AWS experience: S3, EC2, EMR, ECS, Lambda (and related services) - Strong SQL skills for analytics and troubleshooting - Experience with Airflow and Git - Proven track record of leveraging AI across the engineering process to drive modernization, improve developer effectiveness, and enhance software delivery outcomes - Hands-on familiarity with AI-native engineering tools such as Cursor, Claude, GitHub Copilot, and comparable platforms Requirements - 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 Geo location platform Benefits - 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 - 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