Staff Software Engineer Backend
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About the role
As a Staff Software Engineer, Backend, you will lead multi-team initiatives, leveraging your deep technical expertise to ensure alignment, quality, and long-term maintainability across the organization. You will balance hands-on technical guidance with strategic leadership, establishing engineering best practices that transcend your immediate team. By mentoring experienced engineers and building strong relationships with cross-functional stakeholders, you will drive project delivery and ensure our backend infrastructure remains scalable and robust enough to support millions of users worldwide
Responsibilities
- Lead the team to ensure we build our product efficiently and effectively.
- Influence product priorities and scope, offering valuable input in decision-making.
- Communicate complex decisions clearly, weighing the pros and cons of different solutions.
- Mentor and guide experienced engineers, helping them develop both technically and culturally.
- Leverage your experience to establish best practices across the engineering team and beyond.
- Drive project delivery by aligning with cross-functional stakeholders and ensuring the team has everything needed.
- Lead multi-team initiatives, contributing with technical expertise, ensuring alignment and quality.
- Own the quality of the systems and services the team is responsible for.
- Be hands-on, balancing strategic leadership with technical guidance to support the team.
- Stay up-to-date with industry trends and technologies, ensuring the team works with the best tools available.
- Build strong relationships and align efforts within the team and with external partners when necessary.
- Help with recruitment by interviewing candidates
- What you bring in:
- Bachelor's degree in computer science or equivalent
- 8+ years of relevant experience with Scala, Java, or Go
- Experience of working with scalable, highly available, real-time distributed systems
- Experience of working with relational and non-relational databases
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms
- Mentoring, leadership skills
- Excellent communication skills in English.
- Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
- Experience with security best practices.
- It would be great if you also have:
- Experience as a data engineer or close collaboration with data engineers.
- Experience working with highly available systems.
- Experience with performance tuning.
- Experience with security hardening.
- Experience with GDPR.
- Experience creating tech strategies.
Benefits
Additional Information
Join Truecaller - The place where innovation meets impact! Truecaller's mission is to build trust in communication by making it safer, smarter, and more efficient. Born in Sweden, trusted by the world, and here's why we stand out: We are trusted by over 450 million active users every month across 190+ countries We identify over 15 billion calls daily, helping users avoid spam and scams We are powered by a team of 450+ employees from 45+ nationalities We always look for people who take initiative, own their work, and keep raising the bar. An entrepreneurial mindset matters here, especially when it turns bold ideas into real actions. We stay collaborative and focused, always searching for smarter paths forward. If you want to make an impact and grow with a team that inspires millions, you'll fit right in.
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