Engineering Manager (C++)

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 teams activities across the organization through documentation, structured processes, and effective communications
• Facilitate the teams 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: Bachelors 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++, perl, AWS, Git
• 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