Backend Engineer

1 Month ago • 3 Years + • Backend Development

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Job Description

As a Backend Engineer in Truecaller's Identity team, you'll design and develop high-volume, low-latency applications for a distributed environment, ensuring 99.999% availability. You'll work with a cross-functional team, collaborating across business units to build scalable and reliable systems for over 368 million users. Responsibilities include maintaining Truecaller services, defining backend architecture, and exploring new technologies. The role requires experience with Scala or Java, distributed systems, and non-relational databases.
Must have:
  • 3+ years software development (Scala or Java)
  • Experience with distributed systems
  • Non-relational database experience
  • Data structures & algorithms knowledge
  • Excellent English communication
Good to have:
  • Scala, Lightbend stack
  • Go language
  • Play framework
  • GCP
  • Reactive systems
  • Cassandra
  • Apache Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker
Perks:
  • Competitive salary
  • 30 days paid vacation
  • Flexible working hours
  • Private health insurance
  • Parental leave top-up
  • Pension contribution
  • Udemy membership
  • Free gym membership
  • Great tech tools

Hej, Truecaller is calling you from Stockholm, Sweden! Ready to pick up?

Our goal is to make communication smarter, safer, and more efficient, all while building trust everywhere. We're all about bringing you smart services with a big social impact, keeping you safe from fraud, harassment, scam calls or messages, so you can focus on the conversations that matter.

  • Top 20 most downloaded apps globally, and world’s #1 caller ID and spam-blocking service for Android and iOS, with extensive AI capabilities, with more than 400 million active users per month. 
  • Founded in 2009, listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm and is categorized as a Large Cap. Our focus on innovation, operational excellence, sustainable growth, and collaboration has resulted in consistently high profitability and strong EBITDA margins.
  • A team of 400 people from ~35 different nationalities spread across our headquarters in Stockholm and offices in Bangalore, Mumbai, Gurgaon and Tel Aviv with high ambitions.

We at the Identity team provide smooth and efficient activation and account handling for Truecaller users. Our mission is to secure authorized access to our platform to legitimate users only.

As a Backend Engineer in Identity, you will be working with a cross-functional team. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining Truecaller services catering to more than 368 million active users and you play an important part in defining and evolving the backend architecture. We are looking for an ambitious developer who has a passion for technology and a great will to learn and grow with us.

The impact you will create:

  • Design and develop high-volume, low-latency application and cope with the challenge of working in a distributed environment.
  • Operate mission critical services, providing high availability (99.999%).
  • Collaborate across business units and drive solutions.
  • Explore new solutions and technologies.
  • Build a scalable and reliable system. 

What you bring in:

  • At least 3 years of software development experience with Scala or Java 
  • Experience of working with distributed systems, architecture, and patterns
  • Experience of working with non-relational databases
  • Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Good English skills, oral and written

It would be great if you also have:

  • Scala, Lightbend stack
  • Go language
  • Play framework
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Reactive systems
  • Cassandra
  • Apache Kafka
  • Kubernetes
  • Docker

Life at Truecaller - Behind the code:  https://www.instagram.com/lifeattruecaller/

Sounds like your dream job?

We will fill the position as soon as we find the right candidate, so please send your application as soon as possible. As part of the recruitment process, we will conduct a background check.

This position is based in Stockholm, Sweden. 

We only accept applications in English. 

What we offer: 

  • A smart, talented, and agile team: An international team where ~35 nationalities are working together in several locations and time zones with a learning, sharing, and fun environment.
  • A great compensation package: Competitive salary, 30 days of paid vacation, flexible working hours, private health insurance, parental leave top-up, pension contribution, Udemy membership to keep learning and improving, and free gym membership.
  • Great tech tools: Pick the computer and phone you most fancy within our budget ranges.
  • Office life: We strongly believe in in-person collaboration and follow an office-first approach while offering some flexibility. Enjoy your days with great colleagues with loads of good stuff to learn from, and a wide range of yummy snacks and beverages. In addition, now and then check out the playroom for a fun break or join our exciting parties and or team activities such as Lab days, Running team, movie nights in our cinema, or a Geek lunch. There is something for everyone!

Come as you are:
Truecaller is diverse, equal, and inclusive. We need a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs, and experiences to keep building our great products. No matter where you are based, which language you speak, your accent, race, religion, color, nationality, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, etc. All those things make you who you are, and that’s why we would love to meet you.

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