Senior Backend Engineer (GoLang) | Scrabble
Posted on October 13, 2025
Job Description
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<div>Engineering</div>
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<div>3+ Years</div>
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<div>At Navana, we are at the forefront of developing Voice AI solutions tailored for Indic languages, driving growth and innovation for large enterprises.</div>
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<div>We build real-time voice AI systems that power critical customer interactions for leading enterprises. Our stack is built for low-latency, high-throughput workloads and is deployed both in our cloud and on customer infrastructure.</div>
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<div>Participate in sprints, collaborating closely with product and ML teams to ship new features and platform improvements.</div>
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<div>Design and implement highly scalable, highly concurrent backend services in Go.</div>
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<div>Own customer-facing, on-premise Kubernetes deployments: troubleshoot, optimize, and ensure customers achieve business outcomes.</div>
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<div>3+ years building and operating production services in Go.</div>
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<div>Strong grasp of concurrency patterns (goroutines, channels).</div>
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<div>Work within SLAs with customers to resolve critical production issues in a timely fashion.</div>
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<div>VoIP experience - FreeSWITCH, Asterisk, or SIP/RTP internals.</div>
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<div>Prior remote-first team experience across time zones.</div>
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<div>Shipped AI-driven products (ASR, NLP, TTS, recommendation, etc.).</div>
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<div>Prior experience working within the BFSI domain.</div>
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<div>Fully remote culture, competitive salary, unlimited leaves.</div>
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