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What they do

Truecaller makes an app for caller ID and spam blocking. Over 500 million people use it each month, and it identifies over 15 billion calls each day. It earns money from ads and a subscription. Truecaller for Business is its B2B line. The company is Swedish, started in Stockholm in 2009, and is listed on Nasdaq Stockholm.

What they value

• Be fearless: take risks, be bold, and learn when things break.
• Get sh*t done: act fast, keep it simple, and see things through.
• Help each other: listen to users, then release, learn, and improve.
• Never give up: be humble and respectful, and learn as a team.
• Take initiative, own your work, and keep raising the bar.
• Turn bold ideas into real actions with an entrepreneurial mindset.

Where they hire

All 29 Postings are on site. Eighteen are in Sweden, and seven of those name Stockholm. Ten are in Bengaluru and one is in Mumbai. No Posting is remote. The offices are office-first, with some flexibility. The Postings say nothing about the right to work or visa sponsorship. Every Posting accepts applications only in English.

Teams and roles

Most roles are senior. The India roles are in ads, Truecaller for Business, infrastructure, and support.

• Ads: an ad operations manager for app install campaigns, a lead for programmatic ads, and a product manager for ad supply, placements, and formats.
• Truecaller for Business: a director of engineering, a data science manager, a senior ML engineer for fraud and risk models, and product managers for Business Messaging and for Identity, Risk and Fraud Management.
• Customer success: a manager for banking and finance clients in Mumbai.
• Infrastructure and support: a site reliability engineer on GCP and Kubernetes, and a support agent for social media and email.

The Sweden roles are in backend (Scala, Java, or Go), Android (Kotlin and Java), iOS (Swift), data engineering, data analytics, and recommendations for the adVantage ads platform. There are also roles in cloud security, legal, and product.

What they look for

Postings ask for years of experience in the same field, from 3 years for a data engineer to 12 years for the data science manager. Almost every Posting asks for strong communication, often in English, and for work with Product, Engineering, and Sales. Many Postings ask for a data-driven way to make decisions. Engineering and data roles ask for Python, SQL, BigQuery, GCP, and Kubernetes. Truecaller for Business roles ask for a privacy and compliance mindset, such as DPDPA and GDPR. Some roles prefer past work at a fast-growing startup. Hiring is a recruiter interview, a take-home task of 2 to 4 hours, a team interview, and a hiring manager interview. Then Truecaller checks references and does a background check.