Build messaging infrastructure India actually relies on
SMSLocal is a small, opinionated team shipping SMS, WhatsApp, OTP, and AI messaging for Indian business. If you care about carrier routing, regional languages, or infrastructure people actually depend on, we'd like to hear from you.
We hire when we find the right person, not on a calendar. Every application gets a response within two weeks, even if it's a pass.
Small team. Real infrastructure. India-first by design.
This isn't a pitch for another growth-stage SaaS. It's a description of the day-to-day you should expect if you join.
Ship work that actually lands
Every feature you build moves a real metric at a real business. OTP delivery that unblocks a fintech sign-up. A DLT template that lets an e-commerce brand launch a campaign. No research-ware, no dashboards nobody opens.
A small, opinionated team
You'll work directly with people who've been writing routing logic, carrier integrations, and compliance workflows for years. No eight-layer approval chains. If you have an idea, you can ship it by Friday.
India-first, not India-later
Most global CPaaS teams treat India as a rounding-error market. We treat it as the whole market. DLT, DND, regional-language scripts, INR billing, IST support hours — it's all first-class.
Remote-first, Bengaluru optional
We're a distributed team with an optional hub in Bengaluru. You choose your setup. Expect async-first documentation, weekly demos, and real focus time — not meetings-all-day theatre.
Where we hire.
We run evergreen pipelines across these areas — applications are reviewed as they arrive, and we open specific roles when the pipeline meets the need.
Backend engineering
Messaging routing, carrier integrations, queueing, idempotent delivery, DLR pipelines, rate-limit-aware schedulers.
Frontend engineering
Customer dashboards, campaign builders, WhatsApp inbox, real-time delivery streams, accessible form-heavy UI.
SRE & platform
Sub-second delivery budgets, multi-carrier failover, production observability, on-call for messaging workloads.
Carrier & regulatory operations
TRAI / DLT workflows, header and template governance, DND scrubs, operator escalations, carrier SLA tracking.
Customer engineering
Embedding SMSLocal into customer stacks, debugging integration issues, writing reference code and SDK examples.
Go-to-market
Mid-market and enterprise sales in India, partnerships with ISVs and agencies, RFP responses, field enablement.
Support engineering
L1/L2 support during Indian business hours, deep diagnostics of delivery failures, customer-facing post-mortems.
Product design
Campaign UX, inbox and composer flows, onboarding for non-technical operators, accessible dashboards.
Don't see your area? If you've done something unusual we should know about, tell us anyway.
careers@smslocal.inThe defaults you can expect on your first week.
Culture is the sum of defaults. Here are ours.
Async-first documentation
Decisions live in writing. Any teammate in any timezone should be able to catch up without a meeting.
Ship weekly, reflect quarterly
Small, frequent releases over big-bang launches. Every quarter we review what worked, what didn't, and what we cut.
We debug in public
When something breaks, the team writes a real post-mortem and shares the fix. No silent patches, no blame.
Career growth, not title inflation
Levelling is grounded in scope and impact, not title arbitrage. We tell you what the next step looks like, on purpose.
A real job, with a real package.
Transparent compensation, market-rate benefits, and a setup that works whether you're in Bengaluru, Bhopal, or anywhere else.
Market-rate compensation
Calibrated against India tech benchmarks with transparent ranges shared up front for every role.
Equity for full-time roles
Every full-time employee gets a stake in the company, with a standard four-year vest.
Health & wellbeing
Comprehensive health cover for you and immediate family, plus a monthly wellbeing stipend.
Remote-work setup
Laptop of your choice, an annual home-office budget, and a co-working allowance if you prefer working out.
Learning budget
An annual personal-development budget for books, courses, conferences, and the certifications your role needs.
Bengaluru hub, when you want
Drop into our Bengaluru office whenever it suits you. Travel support for team weeks twice a year.
Our hiring process, end-to-end.
Five steps, about two to three weeks from first note to offer, with clear feedback at every stage.
Apply with a short note
No generic cover letter. Tell us the area you want to join, link to one thing you're proud of, and say why SMSLocal. 15 minutes of your time.
First conversation (30 min)
A hiring manager walks you through the role in detail and answers your questions. This is two-way — we want you to leave with enough information to decide.
Focused technical or craft round
Scoped to the role. Engineers get a take-home or pair-programming session against a realistic scenario. GTM folks get a live scenario walk-through. No leetcode.
System or strategy deep-dive (60–90 min)
A whiteboarding session with two teammates on a problem from our actual backlog. You'll see the kind of work you'd do on day one.
Reference calls and offer
Two quick reference calls on our side, transparent offer with a compensation ladder, and a joining plan with 30/60/90-day expectations.
Don't see the right role? Send a note anyway.
The strongest additions to our team usually arrive through open applications. Tell us what you'd want to own, link to one thing you're proud of, and we'll take it from there.
Ship with a team that sweats the details.
Applications are read by humans, not filters. Two-week response guarantee.