Android Developer

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.