GroundTruth - Director - Engineering - GeoSpatial Systems

Role: Director of Engineering, GeoSpatial Systems

Location: Gurgaon, India / Remote

GroundTruth is seeking a Director of Engineering for our Geospatial Platform and Services group. Our highly skilled teams within this group provide the mapping data, services, and support that form the location foundation for all GT products. The successful Director candidate is a strong engineering leader with proven skills in geospatial technology and experience leading teams that build and operate complex distributed systems, and compile custom maps from multiple sources, especially vector maps of transportation networks.

About the geospatial systems group

The geospatial systems group is responsible for developing and maintaining the web services, ETLs, big data jobs, and raw map feature data sets that power our advertising platform. We work to synchronize our view of the real-world across multiple vendors and we enrich our understanding through human-powered expert curation. The team focuses on technical excellence in Java, Python, and SQL using AWS infrastructure. We continue to improve the quality of our data and services while bringing new features to market for our customers.

Responsibilities of the role

- Grow, develop, and lead a winning team through effective performance management, hiring, and training, including regular 1:1 meetings with all of your direct and indirect reports

- Manage and optimize budgets and spending for personnel and systems through thoughtful people management and efficient system design

- Collaborate with product managers and stakeholders to define projects and ensure their timely completion while controlling for cost

- Create and implement scalable processes that can be duplicated by people managers on the team to ensure successful completion of projects and tasks

- Improve the culture and practices of the organization overall

- Manage to and improve performance against key metrics for the engineering department such as productivity per headcount-dollar

Required qualifications

Education and professional experience:

- B.Tech/M.tech 15+ years experience in technology or 16+ years experience in technology

- Domain Experience of Geo Spatial and Advertising Tech is Big Plus

The following skills/certifications: AWS, Java, Python, SQL, PostGIS, ETLs

Additional nice to have skills/certifications: Spark, Athena, Kinesis, file processing, batch scripting, advertising industry experience, geospatial systems, mapping experience

Cultural fit at GroundTruth

- A team player who is organized, flexible and willing to adapt

- Not afraid of new technologies and driven to learn

- A detail-oriented person, who catches problems early and adjusts

- A strong communicator who is able to collaborate with multiple business and engineering stakeholders and work through conflicting needs

- A problem solver who likes to dive deep into a problem, diagnose root causes and work with multiple teams to come up with a solution

- Eager to provide direction and build consistent processes in a maturing start-up culture

- A self-starter who can operate with minimal supervision

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