Associate Software Engineer - Data 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.

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.

About Us

GroundTruth seeks a Data Engineering- Associate Software Engineer to join our Attribution Team. The Attribution Team specialises in designing and managing data pipelines that capture and connect user engagement data to optimise ad performance. We engineer scalable solutions for accurate and real-world attribution across the GroundTruth ecosystem. We engineer seamless data flows that fuel reliable analytics and decision-making using big data technologies, such as MapReduce, Spark, and Glue.

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 organised and detail-oriented team players who are problem solvers with a maker mindset. 

You will:

• Create and maintain various data 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 and AWS ‘big data’ technologies.
• Work with stakeholders, including the Product, Analytics and Client Services teams, to assist with data-related technical issues and support their data infrastructure needs.
• Prepare detailed specifications and low-level design.
• Participate in code reviews.
• Test the product in controlled, real situations before going live.
• Maintain the application once it is live.
• Contribute ideas to improve the location platform.

You have:

• B.Tech./B.E./M.Tech./MCA or equivalent in computer science
• 1-3 years of experience in Data Engineering
• Experience with AWS Stack used for Data engineering EC2, S3, EMR, ECS, Lambda, and Step functions
• Experience with data ingestion pipeline
• Hands-on experience with Java/Python for the orchestration of data pipelines and Data engineering tasks
• Experience in writing analytical queries using SQL
• Experience in Airflow
• Experience in Docker
• Proficient in Git

How can you impress us?

●      Knowledge of REST APIs

●      Any experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, and Apache Iceberg is a plus

●      Knowledge of shell scripting.

●      Experience with BI tools like Looker.

●      Experience with DB maintenance

●      Experience with Amazon Web Services and Docker

●      Configuration management and QA practices