Engineering Manager

Job Description:

Experience: 7 -15 Years

Job Description :

Key responsibilities

As an GEN AI Expert [Min 4 + years of relevant exp on NLP, CV and LLMs], you will be responsible for designing, building, and fine-tuning NLP models and large language model (LLM) agents to solve business challenges. You will play a key role in creating intuitive and efficient model designs that enhance user experiences and business processes. The position demands strong design skills, hands-on coding expertise, advanced proficiency in Python development, specialized knowledge in LLM agent design and development, and exceptional debugging capabilities.

• Model & Agent Design: Conceptualize and design robust NLP solutions and LLM agents tailored to specific business needs, with a focus on user experience, interactivity,   latency, failover and functionality.
• Hands-on Coding: Write,test, and maintain clean, efficient, and scalable code for NLP models and AI agents, with a strong emphasis on Python programming.
• Build high quality multi-modal & multi-agents applications/frameworks
• Knowledge on input/output token utilization, prioritization and consumption w.r.t AI agents
• Performance Monitoring: Monitor, optimize LLM agents, implementing model explainability, handling model drift, and ensuring robustness.
• Research Implementation:Ability to read, comprehend, and implement AI Agent research papers into practical solutions. Stay abreast of the latest academic and industry   research to apply cutting-edge methodologies and techniques.
• Debugging & Issue Resolution: Proactively identify, diagnose, and resolve issues related to AI agents, including model inaccuracies, performance bottlenecks, and   system integration problems. Utilize debugging tools and techniques to troubleshoot complex problems in model behavior, data inconsistencies, and deployment errors.
• Innovation and Research:Stay updated with the latest advancements in AI agents technologies,experimenting with new techniques and tools to enhance agent capabilities and performance.
• Continuous Learning: Adaptability to unlearn outdated practices, patterns, technologies and quickly learn and implement new technologies & papers as the ML world evolves. Maintain a proactive approach to staying current with emerging trends and technologies in Agent based solutions (Text & Multi Modal).
• Clear understanding of tool usage and structured outputs in agents
• Clear understanding of speculative decoding and AST-Code RAG
• Clear understanding of Streaming and Sync/Async processing
• Clear understanding of embedding models and their limitations

Tech stack required:

Programming languages: Python

Public Cloud: Azure

Frameworks: Vector Databases such as Milvus, Qdrant/ ChromaDB, or usage of CosmosDB or MongoDB as Vector stores. Knowledge of AI Orchestration, AI evaluation and Observability Tools. Knowledge of Guardrails strategy for LLM. Knowledge on Arize or any other ML/LLM observability tool.

Experience: Experience in building functional platforms using ML, CV, LLM platforms. Experience in evaluating and monitoring AI platforms in production.

A bit about us

WeatherBug is a popular weather site and mobile app providing hyperlocal, live weather data and proactive alerting to consumer users. With over 15 million unique users per month, across all platforms, WeatherBug’s vision is to provide environmental intelligence for all aspects of people’s lives. The WeatherBug app is a top-rated weather app in the app stores. In 2019, WeatherBug was named the best weather app by MediaPost’s Appy Awards. WeatherBug is owned and operated by GroundTruth, a media company that turns real-world behavior into marketing that delivers real business results.

Learn more at WeatherBug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and we have been ranked one of Ad Age’s Best Places to Work for three years in a row (2021, 2022 & 2023). Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

A bit about you

A recognized expert in their professional discipline, with significant impact and influence on organizational policy and program development. Establishes critical strategic and operational goals, and develops and implements new products, processes, standards, or operational plans to achieve organizational objectives. Regularly leads projects of critical importance to the organization—projects that carry substantial consequences for success or failure. Requires strong influence and communication with executive leadership. Problems encountered are often complex and multidimensional, requiring broad-based consideration of variables that affect multiple areas of the organization.

You will:

• Develop production-ready code to meet scope of requirements.
• With guidance, update and create documentation as needed for new and existing solutions.
• Participate in code-reviews with comments to improve code quality, stability, and maintainability.
• Create and maintain unit and integration testing solutions. Be able to run your code in lower environments.
• Run tests on the mobile device to ensure code meets requirements
• Watch mobile releases for Android or iOS for features you developed
• Teardown your solutions across multiple environments and platforms.
•  Provide operational support of your deployed code
• Determine issues within your areas of expertise.
• Work with teams across the engineering organization to understand and incorporate client requirements into final solutions.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.

You have:

• Bachelor’s degree (4 years) in Computer Science or a related field, OR 5+ years of relevant software development experience.
• 3+ years of professional experience in software engineering.
• 2+ years of hands-on Android application development using Kotlin and Android Studio.
• Experience with modern Android libraries and frameworks, including Jetpack components (e.g., Navigation, Room, ViewModel, LiveData), Retrofit for networking, and image loading libraries (e.g., Glide, Coil).
• Proficiency with asynchronous programming using Kotlin Coroutines and Flow.
• Familiarity with dependency injection frameworks such as Dagger/Hilt or Koin.
• Experience with app architecture patterns such as MVVM or MVI, and clean architecture principles.
• 2+ years of experience working in Agile teams and participating in iterative development cycles.
• Strong understanding of object-oriented design principles, design patterns, best practices, performance optimization, and memory management.
• Experience with unit and UI testing frameworks (JUnit, Mockito, Espresso).
• Familiarity with Git and collaborative version control workflows.
• Exposure to CI/CD tools and automated build/deployment pipelines.
• Ability to independently take ownership of tasks and deliver robust solutions.
• Commitment to writing clean, maintainable, and well-documented code.

Would be great if you have:

• Experience with React Native, including building function components, using hooks, and working with JavaScript/TypeScript.
• Knowledge of Play Store processes, including app signing, publishing, and release management.
• Familiarity with ingesting and exposing large datasets in the weather industry.
• Experience in the advertising industry.
• Proficiency with tools like GitHub, Jenkins, Artifactory.

You are:

• 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
• Organized with demonstrated ability to prioritize and deliver timely work
• A team player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help when 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
• Not afraid to have fun!

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, Bereavement leave & Company Holidays)

● In Office Daily Catered Lunch

● Fully stocked snacks/beverages

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

● Covid home quarantine cover

● Tele-med for free doctor consultation, discounts on health checkups and medicines

● Wellness/Gym Reimbursement

●  Pet Expense Reimbursement

●  Childcare Expenses and reimbursements

●  Employee assistance program

●  Employee referral program

●  Education reimbursement program

●  Skill development program

●  Cell phone reimbursement (Mobile Subsidy program)

●  Internet reimbursement

●  Birthday treat 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

●  Creche reimbursement

●   Co-working space reimbursement

●   NPS employer match

●   Meal card for tax benefit

●   Special benefits on salary account

●   New joiner relocation

Role : Nodejs developer

Please find below the JD for the Nodejs developer..

 Role: NodeJs Developer 

We are looking for a Node.js Developer responsible for managing the interchange of data between the server and the users. Your primary focus will be the development of all server-side logic, definition and maintenance of the central database, and ensuring high performance and responsiveness to requests from the front-end. A basic understanding of front-end technologies is necessary as well. Responsibilities

 • Collaborate with other members of the team, such as front-end developers

 • Writing reusable, testable, and efficient code 

• Design and implementation of low-latency, high-availability, and performant applications 

• Implementation of security and data protection

 • Integration of data storage solutions • Writing unit test cases • Documenting application changes and developing updates. 

Skills 

• Strong proficiency with JavaScript 

• Experience of Node.js and frameworks available such as Express

 • Practical experience with REST, PostgreSQL, WebSocket, MongoDB, Redis. 

• Understanding the nature of asynchronous programming and its quirks and workarounds 

• User authentication and authorization between multiple systems, servers, and environments 

• Integration of multiple data sources and databases into one system 

• Understanding differences between multiple delivery platforms, such as mobile vs. desktop, and optimizing output to match the specific platform • Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes

 • Implementing automated testing platforms and unit tests

 • Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git

 • Good understanding of front-end technologies, such as HTML5, and CSS3  

Requirements:

• Minimum 3 years of experience in software development into MERN (React & Node.js ) technology.
• Bachelor degree in Computer Science or IT.
• Must have Hands-On coding expertise of React.js, Reactstrap, NodeJS, MongoDB and ExpressJS.
• Configuring and managing deployment on AWS (EC2 IAM, S3).
• Knowledge of developing REST API using Express framework and front end integration with PUG engine.
• Experience with popular JS libraries like Ember, Babel, Typescript, Webpack, Socket etc.
• Exposure to scm tools like git, Git Hub, CI/CD methods, code coverage tools like SonarQube, etc.
• Good understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts, core JavaScript concepts like scope/closures, the event loop and asynchronous callbacks, promises, API formation, POSTMAN API etc.

Skills: Java, spring, hibernate, AWS(mandatory), microservices architecture, redis(good to have)

Team Size: Current team size of tech team is 65+

Interview Process: 4 rounds( 1st round - Problem Solving/Data Structures, 2nd Round- Coding, 3rd Round- Technical Discussion and Final round with the HR).

Target Companies:- B2C fintech companies, app based product companies, edtech companies

Location: Bangalore(Currently WFH but later on will be following a hybrid model)

Roles & Responsibilities

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

· Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns

· Strong problem solving and analytical skills

· Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack

· Ability to manage small teams (4-6 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

· Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems

· In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline batching.

· In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.

· In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.

· In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

What Can We Offer You:

We offer a great working environment - Very collaborative. You will get plenty of learning opportunities and challenging problems to work on. You’ll go to sleep everyday knowing that you’ve made a difference in people’s lives. Your work will be reaching out to millions of users.

• Work with developers to design algorithms and flowcharts
• Produce clean, efficient code based on specifications
• Integrate software components and third-party programs
• Verify and deploy programs and systems
• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing software
• Gather and evaluate user feedback
• Recommend and execute improvements
• Create technical documentation for reference and reporting

·        Managing large amounts of outbound calls in a timely manner.

·        Identify customers' needs, clarify information, research every issue, and provide solutions.

·        Seize opportunities to build comfort with customers and handhold them in Educating them about our product offerings and closing the sale of products.

·        Build sustainable relationships and engage customers by taking the extra mile.

·        Developing knowledge of customer needs and trends to improve customer satisfaction and loyalty.

·        Frequently attend training sessions to improve knowledge and performance level.

·        Meet personal/team qualitative and quantitative target