Backend Engineer - Golang

Hello, Truecaller is calling you from Bangalore, India! 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 450 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. 

Enterprise Product at Truecaller focuses on creating new revenue streams for Truecaller through solutions that help businesses in improving the efficiency of their customer communication. With visibility to more than 300M users, Truecaller provides an ideal platform for businesses across the globe to exchange information with their customers.

As a Backend Engineer - Golang, This role requires skills to guide on the unique concepts, paradigms, and best practices in Go. You will be working with a team that will have a major influence on graduating Go as a supported language in the Truecaller backend.

What you bring in:

• 3 years of experience as a backend developer, with at least 2 + years of experience working with GO language.
• Strong knowledge of working with Go paradigms and best practices
• Good knowledge of concurrency in Go - goroutines, channel patterns, Go ecosystem, and tools available
• Worked on or have an understanding of various frameworks in Go
• Ability to dissect and recommend best tools for the job
• Worked with microservices architecture and patterns, DevOps, and continuous delivery.
• Experience building APIs with gRPC or REST
• Some experience with deployment processes including knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker.

The impact you will create:

• Build a scalable and reliable system, while facing quickly growing global traffic.
• Developing high-volume, low-latency applications for large systems and coping with the challenges of working in a distributed and highly concurrent environment.
• You will also be coding new features and have an active role in the defining the backend architecture, which includes designing microservices and researching new alternatives and technologies.

It would be great if you also have:

• Experience in non-relational databases -Cassandra or ScyllaDB is a plus
• Any prior experience on Ruby on Rails or Scala is a bonus.

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 Bangalore, India. 

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, telephone bill reimbursement, Udemy membership to keep learning and improving and Wellness allowance.
• Great tech tools: Pick the computer and phone that you fancy the most within our budget ranges. 
• Office life:  We strongly believe in the 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, daily lunch and breakfast and a wide range of healthy snacks and beverages. In addition, every now and then check out the playroom for a fun break or join our exciting parties and or team activities such as Lab days, sports meetups etc. There something for everyone!

Come as you are:  Truecaller is diverse, equal and inclusive. We need a wide variety of backgrounds, perspectives, beliefs and experiences in order 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.