Job description
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.
A bit about Team GroundTruth seeks a Senior Software Engineer with strong expertise in designing and building hands-on, customer-facing applications to join our Apps Engineering team.
The Apps Engineering Team builds and maintains the full-stack applications and services that power GroundTruth’s advertising platform—spanning customer-facing front ends, back-end APIs, and the data and deployment infrastructure behind them—feeding into how GroundTruth’s advertising creates Real Business Results.
We work in an AI-first engineering culture where agentic coding tools are part of how we design, build, and ship every day.
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 organized and detail-oriented team players who are problem solvers with a maker mindset.
As a Senior Software Engineer (SSE) on our Apps Engineering team, you will operate as an agentic, full-stack software engineer—directing AI coding agents to build solutions that add new capabilities to our platform, while owning the architecture, quality, and outcomes of what those agents produce.
You will: Develop and maintain hands-on, customer-facing full-stack applications using Python / FastAPI / REST APIs and modern front-end frameworks.
Operate as an agentic software engineer—decomposing problems into tasks that AI coding agents can execute, then reviewing, testing, and validating all agent-generated output.
Collaborate with management, stakeholders, and the team to evaluate, plan, and deliver projects involving advertising software systems, components, and features.
Contribute to a culture of transparency by maintaining clear documentation, structured processes, and effective communication—including the prompts, context (AGENTS.
md), and MCP configuration that make AI agents productive.
Write production-ready front-end and back-end code integrated with a continuous delivery and deployment pipeline on AWS.
Participate in and improve team Agile practices—supporting learning, growth, and technical maturity.
Create and maintain various ingestion and 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.
Contribute ideas to improve the platform and the team’s use of AI-assisted development.
You are: This is our ideal wish list, but most people don’t check every box on every job description.
If you meet most of the criteria below and you’re excited about the opportunity and willing to learn, we’d love to hear from you.
Detail Oriented – the little things matter Adaptable and able to pivot to meet demands and carry out expectations Organized and have demonstrated the ability to prioritize and deliver work in a timely manner Able to work under strict deadlines and be able to prioritize a heavy workload A team-player and not afraid to roll up your sleeves and help out when/where 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 You have: B.
Tech./B.E./M.Tech./MCA or equivalent in computer science with 6+ years experience in software development.
Hands-on experience using AI coding agents (e.
g. Cursor, Claude Code, or similar) to design, write, and ship production code.
Strong hands-on experience with full-stack development: REST APIs, FastAPI, and modern front ends.
Experience with AWS Stack used for data engineering: EC2, S3, EMR, ECS, Lambda, and Step functions, etc.
Hands-on experience with Python/Java for orchestration of data pipelines.
Experience in writing analytical queries using SQL.
Experience in Airflow.
Experience in Docker.
Proficient in Git.
Strong written communication and the ability to specify clear requirements and context for both humans and AI agents.
How you can impress us: Knowledge of Angular, React, TypeScript, and JavaScript.
Experience authoring agent context such as AGENTS.
md / CONTEXT.
md files, custom skills, or reusable prompts.
Familiarity with the Model Context Protocol (MCP) and connecting agents to tools and data sources.
Any experience with big data technologies like Hadoop, MapReduce, Pig, PySpark is a plus.
Knowledge of shell scripting.
Experience with BI tools like Looker and Tableau.
Experience with DB design and maintenance.
Experience with Amazon Web Services and Docker.
Configuration management and QA practices.
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.
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
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