

Android Development Engineer - Chennai
Who we are?
Kaleidofin is a financial platform for the informal sector, which provides solutions tailored to the customer’s goals and are intuitive to use. We are working towards creating fair and transparent financial solutions that can target millions of customers and enterprises in India that don’t have easy access to formal financial planning.
In a very short time span, global investors such as Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures and well known individual investors have supported Kaleidofin’s well thought out business model with $2.8 million in seed funding.
With its focus to harness mobile technology to deliver a paperless experience as well as its focus to harness technology and analytics to predict the right product for the right customer, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading FinTech player bringing financial solutions to everyone.
To know more about Kaleidofin, do visit our site https://kaleidofin.com/
What You’ll Do?
We are seeking extremely smart Android developers who are passionate about pushing mobile technologies to the limits. You will:
- Design and develop products by working closely with business teams
- Design super intuitive experiences in the next generation of our mobile applications
- Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise ready android applications with architecture that is fast yet lean on the backend servers enabling them to support millions of users in parallel
- Build enterprise ready back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel
- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components
- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption
Who You Need To Be?
- 2+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering from a reputed institute(preferably IITs, NITs, or other top engineering institutes).
- Strong grasp of CS fundamentals, algorithms and excellent problem solving abilities.
- All experience should be from good product development or e-commerce background.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Skill set
- Knowledge of UI architectural patterns like MVVM(preferable), MVC, MVP, data binding, activity & fragment lifecycle, recycler view, navigation component, layouts (constraint layout preferable), theming etc.
- Should have actively used retrofit, work managers, android jetpack, Rx java, dagger, retrofit, android sdk, GIT/bitbucket, gradle/ant and very keen on exploring other proven tech stack.
- Comfortable with test driven development in android with UI testing, instrumented unit testing and unit testing using junits, mockito or other tools.
- Willingness to learn and write simple backend REST API’s (preferably in Java, spring boot & hibernate) without having to completely depend on backend engineers for delivery
- Has worked in a fast paced agile organization building stateless and re-entrant/resumable android applications.

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- Someone who is annoyed by the build time it takes for an application to build and has done something to optimize it
- Has good experience in building Android applications
- Experience with the flutter ecosystem is a great plus.
- Who likes to think in terms of software and data architecture before opening an Android studio. Comfortable with managing
- the development and deployment of applications.
- Open and more importantly excited about learning the new technologies.
Roles and responsibilities
- Participate and contribute to the design and development of the core
components of the service.

● We provide a platform for you to grow exponentially along with the organisation.
● Grow with a team having strong foundations in software engineering practices.
● First-hand experience with a wide range of technologies that work at scale.
● Your role is not just subjected to coding , you will be involved in the end to end product phase from ideation to the product going live.
● Our focus is not from which tier 1 college you come from rather it is the skills/competencies you have and the progression you have shown in your career graph.
● Learn in an environment passionate about knowledge-sharing.
● Have a pivotal role in the transformation of our engineering culture.
Responsibilities:
● Work closely with our product and design teams to customize the user experience.
● Design components by translating product requirements, break down projects into tasks and provide accurate estimates. Build scalable and reliable technology solutions at a rapid pace.
● Prototype new and redesign features.
● A focus on UI design principles and making apps work intuitively.
● Strong coding abilities and experience with Dart.
● Actively participate in design and code reviews to build robust applications and prototypes.
● A willingness to dive deep, experiment rapidly and get things done.
● Understanding of object-oriented software development.
● Prior experience in working with social apps is a plus.
● Experience in working with machine learning applications, hardware features is a plus.
● Prior product building experience or from a startup background would be a plus.



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Senior Frontend Engineer |
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Location |
Bangalore / Kochi / Remote |
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Budget |
30-40 LPA + 0.15% to 0.2% equity |
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Define the Role |
1. Leads and executes the mobile development strategy for the company |
Key outcomes expected |
1. Implementation of the mobile version(s) of the app in Android and iOS |
Persona |
8-12 years of experience in web and mobile development |
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Skills |
Mandatory |
Process |
Round 1- (Google Meet) - Founders (screening) |




- Understanding of cross-platform design principles.
- 2+ years of mobile software development experience. 1+ years of iOS and Android development experience with React Native.
- Good Experience in JavaScript, Typescript and React Native, strong familiarity with native mobile application development either Android or iOS.
- Solid understanding of mobile development concepts; APIs consumption, power optimization, user interaction design, application security.
- Coding for the mobile environment, experience integrating third-party SDKs into apps.
- Application lifecycle management with both Apple App Store and Google Play store.
- Superior critical thinking, analytical, evaluation, and problem-solving skills.
- Self-directed and proactive, work collaboratively with team members and independently; thinks beyond the immediate problem.
- Experience using mobile testing frameworks and methodologies
- Familiarity with Material UI (or similar)
- Familiarity with UX testing and user research

- A candidate with 2+ years of experience in building high-quality Android apps.
- A strong understanding of the full life cycle of app development.
- Experience in designing, developing, debugging and deploying software for server-side development using Java/ Kotlin language.
- Understanding and the sound of Android SDK, in different versions of Android, and how to effectively write code for a multitude of Android devices.
- Excellent knowledge of Android design principles and third-party libraries
- Experience in building RESTful API's focusing on integration with back-end services.
- Hands on experience with continuous integration.
- Passionate about Android and are always up to date with the latest industry trends concerning OS, devices, applications, web technologies and new user interactions as they are released.



- Experience / strong knowledge in both iOS & Android Mobile Application technologies
- Proficient in SwiftUI, Swift, Xcode, Java, Kotlin and Android Studio, Flutter, React Native
- Experience with version control: Maven, Gradle, Git, Cocopods
- Experience in application submission / provisioning process
- Experience in performance and memory tuning
- Good understanding of computer science concepts, design patterns, algorithms and data structures
Bonus Points:
- Experience / knowledge in any of the Back-End technologies


● Good understanding of areas such as Algorithms, Data Structures, ObjectOriented Design, Databases.
● Solid understanding of Android Architecture Components
● Understanding of large and complex code bases, including API designtechniques to help keep them clean and maintainable.
● Programming experience in Java, kotlin and related frameworks.


Responsibilities
As a Software Engineer - Cross Platform Mobile Developer you will be expected to develop and maintain Cross platform Android and iOS applications for a range of our clients in different verticals. You will be working alongside other engineers and developers working on different layers of the infrastructure. You will also be helping out junior team members by reviewing their code and providing feedback. Thereby, helping them excel professionally.
Requirements
B.E/B.Tech degree in Computer Science Engineering or any related fields. Even candidates with BCA/MCA degree can apply. But if you feel that you don’t have the necessary degree to apply, don’t worry! If you can prove that you have the necessary skills for this position, we would love to hear from you.
Skills
• Thorough understanding of Flutter and its core principles.
• Proficient in Dart6 Programming.
• Knowledge of modern authorization mechanisms (such as Auth 2.0 or JSON Web Token)
• Build pixel-perfect, buttery smooth UIs across both mobile platforms. • Familiarity with RESTful APIs.
• Leverage native APIs for deep integrations with both platforms.
• Diagnose and fix bugs and performance bottlenecks for performance that feels native.
• Maintain code and write automated tests to ensure the product is of the highest quality.
• Ability to understand business requirements and translate them into technical requirements
• A knack for benchmarking and optimization
• Familiarity with code versioning tools (such as Git or Perforce)
• Strong knowledge of UI design principles, architecture patterns, and best practices for development.
• Familiarity with native build tools, like Xcode, Gradle (Android Studio, IntelliJ)
• Ability to write well-documented, clean code
• Experience launching and managing production mobile apps Nice to have
• Familiarity with continuous integration
• Knowledge on native Android development

