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: www.weatherbug.com

At GroundTruth, we believe that innovative technology starts with the best talent and 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. Learn more about the perks of joining our team here.

Role: Software Engineer (React Native/Android)

Location: Gurugram OR Remote, India

• This role requires Core Work Hours from 8:30 pm to 12:30 am IST (will change as per daylight saving in US). The remaining hours are completed at individual discretion.**
  
  

Role Characteristics:

Fully competent and productive professional contributor who applies acquired job skills, policies, and procedures to complete substantive assignments/projects/tasks of moderate scope and complexity. Works independently with general supervision; exercises judgment within defined guidelines and practices to determine appropriate action. They might provide guidance and assistance to entry level professionals and/or support employees. Here is the TASK; Give me the SOLUTION

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:

• 3 years degree in Computer Science or related field OR 5+ years of experience in software development
• 3+ years of experience in software engineering
• 2+ years of experience using Android application programming (Android, Java/Kotlin, Android Studio, RxJava, OkHttp, Image Loaders)
• 2+ years of experience on an Agile team
• 1+ years of experience using React Native (Components. Function Components, Hooks, JavaScript/TypeScript)
• Knowledge of object-oriented design principles, patterns, best practices, performance optimizations, and memory management.
• Ability to communicate with cross functional teams within engineering to foster solutions
• The ability to troubleshoot moderate to high complexity problems
• Ability to take a given task and execute a solution.
  
  

Would be great if you have:

• Experience working with weather industry
• Knowledge of advertising industry
• Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Spinnaker
• Experience with AWS Products, specifically S3, EC2, CloudFormation, IAM, Lambda
  
  

What we offer:

At Weatherbug, 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
• 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
  
  

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity, inclusion and equity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Applicants with disabilities may be entitled to reasonable accommodations under applicable federal, state and/or local laws. If you need reasonable accommodations in the application process, please reach out to us at recruiting@groundtruth.com