
Senior 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 & independent senior developers who are gung ho about building large scale systems that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers. You will:
- Lead design and development of products working closely with business team
- Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small group of fellow developers
- Formally mentor junior software engineers on the team, reviewing design documents, (peer) reviewing code, providing design direction and guidance
- 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
- Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption
Who You Need To Be?
- 4+ years’ experience in android software development and delivery
- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering (preferably computer science or sister branches) 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.
- Able to take ownership of working with multiple teams – Product, Back end, QA, Business from start of development to go-live.
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Skill set
- Strong 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 and mockito
- Have working knowledge of writing 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.
- Should have worked on building applications across wide range of android devices and android versions.
- Experience of Kotlin (especially kotlin coroutines and koin) is a big plus.

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NOTE -
+ Premier institute(s) preferred - but not a requirement for the job.
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- Very good knowledge of Swift is mandatory
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Soft Skills:
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Benefits
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Qualifications and Requirements:
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Qualifications
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- Proficient with developing apps optimized for different android versions and devices of varying performance.
- Strong system design and architecture skills.
- Experience with multi-threading, memory management, databases.
- Experience in working with REST APIs, JSON, XML, etc.
- Experience/Knowledge of unit testing and integration testing.
- A knack for profiling, performance tuning, and optimization.
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- Strong grasp over frontend unit and end-to-end testing frameworks
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- Work with outside data sources and APIs
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- The ability to pick the right tools for the job.
- Desire and ability to play different roles as necessary
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- Core knowledge in Rxjava, Rxandroid, retrofit etc. and can work with Kotlin programming language.
- If React Native, should be well versed with React JS and React Native.
Responsibilities
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Job Requirements
Android:
- Excellent knowledge in core Java
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- Strong knowledge in RESTful web services
- Good Knowledge of Android SDK's and third party libraries
- Push Notifications and Firebase
- Eclipse & ANT based build system
- Android Studio
- Experience in Gradle.
iOS:
- Very good experience with Objective-C , Swift is a must and iOS SDK
- Good working knowledge in Cocoa Touch
- Experience with memory management and caching mechanisms specific to mobile devices
- Experience working with iOS frameworks such as Core Data, Core Animation, Core Graphics and Core Text
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- Experience in API integration in mobile apps and external devices is a big plus
- A portfolio of iOS/Android apps in the Play Store/app store is a plus
- Hands on experience with Android studio & gradle build system
- Git using experience & Gerrit
- UI & UX with material design patterns
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