International calling app for migrants and expats with pay-as-you-go and subscription plans
Rebtel serves dual-culture users—immigrants, expats, international students—with low-cost international calling to 190+ countries. The tech stack reveals a company modernizing aggressively: actively migrating from Java to Kotlin + Jetpack Compose on Android, replacing legacy systems across the board, and building new cross-functional product teams around payments and authentication. With 6 engineering hires posted in the last 30 days and senior-heavy seniority mix, Rebtel is scaling to handle millions of users in a high-volume transactional environment while paying down technical debt.
Rebtel is a direct-to-consumer telecom company built around the communication needs of global migrant communities over the past two decades. The product offers international calling to mobiles and landlines with transparent pricing, flexible payment (pay-as-you-go and country-specific unlimited plans), multilingual support, and local currency options. Revenue scales through credits and subscriptions; the go-to-market relies on performance marketing and community partnerships. The company operates at scale—millions of users, high transaction volume—across iOS and Android, backed by a .NET-based backend on Azure and AWS infrastructure.
Backend: .NET Core, ASP.NET, SQL Server, MongoDB on Azure and AWS. Mobile: iOS (native), Android (Java → Kotlin + Jetpack Compose migration underway). Frontend: React, Next.js, TypeScript. Infrastructure: Kubernetes, GraphQL, REST APIs. DevOps: GitHub, Azure DevOps.
Payments and authentication roadmaps, mobile top-up product, new cross-functional product delivery teams, modernizing Android from legacy Java to Kotlin + Jetpack Compose, replacing legacy systems, and AI vision and experimentation projects.
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