Senior Backend Engineer

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Stockholm
7+ Years Experience
Software
The Role
As a Senior Backend Engineer at Truecaller, you'll design, develop, and maintain scalable backend systems for vital services like caller identification and spam protection, serving hundreds of millions of users. You'll collaborate with a cross-functional team to optimize performance and ensure reliability.
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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 with an impressive year-on-year growth with high profitability, listed on Nasdaq OMX Stockholm, Large Cap.
  • 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 Search team, are responsible for some of the most vital and impactful features of the Truecaller application. These include:

  • Caller Identification: Identifying who is calling and making sure users can make educated decisions to pick up or not
  • Spam Protection: Identifying and blocking spam numbers, calculating spam likelihood, and enhancing overall spam detection.
  • Name Accuracy: Guarantee that users see the most accurate and reliable names associated with numbers.
  • Fraud Protection: Developing and maintaining services to protect users from fraudulent calls and scams.

As a Senior Backend Engineer in the Search team, you will collaborate with a dedicated team responsible for maintaining some of Truecaller's most essential services. These include the search engine that powers caller identification, the systems that manage spam protection, the services that handle user comments, and fraud protection services, among other critical functions. 

The impact you will create:

  • Collaborate with a cross-disciplinary team to design, develop, and maintain highly scalable and available backend systems.
  • Play a key role in managing critical contact identification and spam-blocking backend systems that serve hundreds of millions of users.
  • Monitor and optimize system performance to ensure reliability and efficiency at a large scale.

What you bring in:

  • Strong background in Java or Scala
  • Experience working with distributed systems
  • Experience working with data-intensive applications
  • Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
  • Good English skills, both oral and written
  • The drive to learn and develop as a professional

It would be great if you also have:

  • Experience building systems in the cloud
  • Experience with virtualization environments, e.g. Docker
  • Experience with systems for managing containerized applications, e.g. Kubernetes
  • Experience with non-relational databases

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

Top Skills

Java
Scala
The Company
Stockholm
528 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 2009

What We Do

Truecaller is the leading global platform for verifying contacts and blocking unwanted communication for over 374 million people every month. We enable safe and relevant conversations between people and make it efficient for businesses to connect with consumers. Our mission, the reason for our being, is to build trust in communication. Headquartered in Stockholm, since 2009, we are a co-founder led, entrepreneurial company, with a highly experienced management team.

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