PCQA Manager

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.

Location: Remote, India

About Us

The bidding team is responsible for developing and maintaining our real-time advertising bidder and the data processes generating the index files powering it. Our bidder currently receives ~500k transactions per second on AWS infrastructure typically responding to internal bid requests in under 10ms. This is a high-volume low-latency system and the team focuses on technical excellence in C++, perl, and python to continuously improve cost performance while bringing new features and optimization strategies to market for our customers.

You will:

• Proactively work to develop the skills and behaviors of each team member, coaching and mentoring them toward success in their tasks and careers
• Collaborate with management, stakeholders, and the team to evaluate, plan, and deliver projects involving advertising software systems, components, and features
• Promote transparency regarding the team’s activities across the organization through documentation, structured processes, and effective communications
• Facilitate the team’s learning, growth, and maturity in their agile practices
• Lead by example writing production-ready front-end and backend-code with a continuous delivery & deployment pipeline on AWS
• Support employees by having regular 1:1 conversations, providing feedback, planning for and conducting quarterly reviews, scheduling time-off, facilitating training, providing recognition, and managing any personal or performance issues

You have:

• Education and professional experience: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent.
• 8+ experience in technology, including software development, architecture, or related areas.
• 2+ years of experience in team management or technical leadership.
• Primary Skills : C++14/17/20/23, perl, AWS, Git, STL
• Additional nice to have skills/certifications: Python, Apache Web Server, Nginx, Protocol Buffers, HAProxy, Redis, Kinesis, Sed, Awk, Athena

How you can impress us:

• 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, 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.
• Birthday treat reimbursement
• 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

Job Responsibilities:

• Microservices Development: Contribute to the design, development, and testing of RESTful microservices using Java 14+, Spring Boot, and Spring Cloud.
• Cloud Integration: Assist in building and deploying services that integrate with AWS ecosystem services, including S3, SQS, SNS, API Gateway, ElasticSearch, and Secrets Manager.
• System Resilience: Help implement patterns for fault tolerance and latency tolerance using NetflixOSS tools such as Hystrix for circuit breaking and Ribbon for client-side load balancing.
• API Gateway & Service Discovery: Work with tools like Zuul for routing and filtering and implement service registration/discovery using Eureka.
• Security: Support the integration of authentication and authorization mechanisms using OAuth 2.0via Spring Cloud Security.
• Distributed Tracing: Utilize monitoring tools like Sleuth and Zipkin to help track requests across multiple services and diagnose performance bottlenecks.
• Asynchronous Messaging: Develop event-driven components using messaging platforms like Kafka and RabbitMQ.
• Code Quality & Collaboration: Write clean, maintainable, and well-tested code. Participate in code reviews, sprint planning, and other Agile ceremonies using tools like JIRA and Git.
• Collaboration: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including QE and DevOps, to ensure smooth deployment and operation of services.

Qualifications & Skills:

• 4 Years to 6 year of professional experience developing applications with Java.
• Hands-on academic or project experience with Spring Boot and an understanding of the Spring ecosystem (Spring Web, Spring Data JPA, Spring Core).
• Familiarity with building and consuming RESTful APIs.
• Basic understanding of microservices architecture principles.
• Exposure to cloud platforms, preferably AWS, and an interest in services like S3, SQS, or SNS.
• Knowledge of fundamental distributed systems concepts (caching, messaging, load balancing).
• Familiarity with version control systems, preferably Git.
• Strong problem-solving skills and a keen desire to learn new technologies.
• Excellent communication and teamwork skills.

•  Development using .net core
•  Requirement understanding and getting on client calls
•  Work closely with the nearshore developer
•  Perform code reviews and unit testing as planned
•  Participate in peer reviews.

•  Strong knowledge on C#, .net core 5 and Entity Framework
•  Knowledge on PostgreSQL
•  Web API, building Microsoft .NET-based web or Enterprise applications
•  Experience in building and consuming Asp.NET MVC & Web API or REST API  using 
• jQuery, JSON, AJAX, Asp.net Web Services.

•  Knowledge on Docker and Kubernetes
•  Knowledge on AutoMapper

Lead Software Engineer - Backend

It is evolving the way people discover the world by connecting them with exceptional experiences in their city at the push of a button. We are building a magical platform that gets everyone to head out and have fun in a matter of seconds; no matter where you are and what you want to do. We are combining a delightful product experience, data-driven decisions, sophisticated supply side logistics network, and world-class operations to solve a huge basic human problem: how do we have a good time?

We’re growing rapidly with over $200M in annualized sales, 150,000 monthly transactions and profitable unit economics. We are backed by some of the finest investors in Silicon Valley & India. 

We like to solve real-world problems in the simplest, most elegant manner possible. We’re looking for a QA Lead with the ability and passion for building solutions to people-centered problems that are created at the intersection of human behavior and technology. You should also be capable of building and mentoring a fast-growing passionate, young, and talented team. We love folks who have a sense of humor and know how to have fun.Dream, build and iterate. That's our mantra. Because good just isn't good enough.

👩‍💻 The Role

• Full responsibility of designing and building core modules on the application and infrastructure layer.
• Lead a fast-growing team of young, passionate, talented and fun loving superstars.
• Solve challenging architectural and design problems.
• Get your hands dirty with clustering, replication, databases, build systems and infrastructure automation etc.
• Be responsible for building concurrent, performant and scalable services which will power the entire Headout ecosystem.
• Build and contribute to open-source libraries and components.

🌟 Our Dream Engineer

• A penchant for learning and building with new technologies and frameworks.
• You love working with people and have worked in a lead position in the past.
• A knack for writing the most performance optimized code along with it being modular and scalable.
• No challenge is too big to solve; love thinking product and excited to ideate & build stuff all by yourself.
• You're interested in being an early employee at a growing company, with the influence and responsibility that entails.
• You have broad and deep knowledge across a variety of contemporary technologies.

💝 We like

• Strong CS fundamentals, good working knowledge of classic algorithms and data structures.
• 2+years experience developing server-side technologies using any language or framework.
• Excellent communication, collaboration and people management skills.
• Experience working with Spring, Relational Databases, Concurrent Programming, NoSQL flavors, AWS.
• Experience designing scalable, fault-tolerant systems and databases.
• Experience with setting setting up systems and infrastructure.
• Solid understanding of how the web works and its underlying communication protocols.
• People who can't live without solving that algorithm problem that they just stumbled upon.
• People who will give up anything to squeeze in that last bit-level performance.
• Anything else than can surprise us.
• Nice to Haves: An interest in travel, local experiences & hospitality.

• Designing, implementing and improving company quality standards and analyzing data in order to find areas for growth and improvements
• Training, motivating and correcting employees to ensure that standards are met and preparing reports to track the progress
• Formulating strategies to increase productivity
• Testing and sampling products (Raw, Semi Finished and Finished Products), ensuring they meet set standards and specifications
• Conforming all products are properly labeled before output
• Investigating customers' complaints and ensuring safety procedures and processes
• Establishing strategies to improve efficiency and profitability in the organizations and monitoring all operations that affect quality and keeping all record related to quality and food safety, statistical reviews and relevant documents
• Communicating with external vendors and quality officers during onsite inspections

Desired Candidate Profile

• BSc. or MSc. or B. Tech (Chemistry/ DT / FT/ Micro /BT)
• Experience in Food Safety Process, audits, corrective actions
• Good at reporting corrective actions taken at management review meetings
• Knowledge in creating a flow diagram for each product and process covered by Food Safety Management System
• Experience in reviewing all rejections by food inspector/quality officers and in submissions of reports
• Willingness to work 6 days as one rotational off either on Monday or Sunday
• Lead Auditor Training Certificate or work experience as FSTL or Food Safety Team Member

• Very Strong communication and consulting skills
• Strong front-end development skills, experience with JavaScript libraries/frameworks mainly Angular JS Preferably Version 7 or Version 5
• Experience working with server-side JavaScript Frameworks and build tools (node.js, bower, grunt, gulp)
• Demonstrable experience developing large-scale applications using one or more MV* patterns (MVVM, MVC, MVP)
• Expertise in developing single page web applications using front-end routing, consuming JSON-based RESTful APIs, client-side templating
• Strong competency in responsive layouts leveraging CSS and media queries and related UI frameworks (e.g., Bootstrap, Foundation)
• Experience with CSS preprocessors (e.g., Sass, LESS)
• Experience with code analysis tools (e.g., JSLint, JSPerf)
• Practical knowledge of web page optimization techniques and guidelines for fast page load times
• Strong understanding of Ajax and/or promises
• Experience working in an agile, multidisciplinary team.
• Experience working with a distributed version control system (git, mercurial)
• Experience writing unit tests in one or more of the following: karma, mocha, chai, sinon, jasmine, jest
• Experience working on AWS. Basic understanding of Security Groups/ VPC etc.
• Experience on working with & integrating with microservices
• Experience on developing/ using CI/CD pipeline using Jenkins/ Git