
Senior Software 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 back end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel
- Establish strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption
Who You Need To Be?
- 4+ years’ experience in software product 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 atleast one of mobile or web app teams for complete integration with backend
- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.
- Skill set
- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure
- Proficiency in Java, Spring boot, Hibernate, REST API development
- Worked with at least 1 RDBMS (Mysql preferred). NoSql is a plus.
- Have used or are very hands-on with Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, Gradle/Ant, Kafka, GIT/bitbucket in a very agile work place.
- Writing high quality code which is made better by unit tests and integration tests is how you work
- Comfortable with exploring proven open source tech stack like Grafana, Kibana, Jira, Prometheus, caches like Redis/Memcached, task queues like celery, to name a few
- Knowledge of test driven development and AWS tech stack will be a good plus

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Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor's/Master’s in Computer Science or related field
- 5–8 years of backend development experience
- Strong in Java, Spring Boot, REST APIs, and microservices
- Hands-on experience with MySQL/PostgreSQL and NoSQL databases
- Strong debugging, problem-solving, and communication skills
- Ability to work independently and in cross-functional teams
Preferred Traits
- Proactive mindset with a knack for identifying and fixing bottlenecks
- Detail-oriented with a passion for clean, maintainable code
Team-oriented with a drive for continuous learning and improvement
Required Skills:
- 3+ years of experience in the Development of JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands-on experience in Relational Databases (SQL query or Hibernate) + Mongo (JSON parsing)
- Proficient in REST API development
- Messaging Queue (RabitMQ or Kafka)
- Microservices
- Any Caching Mechanism
- Good at problem-solving
Good to Have Skills:
- 4+ years of experience in using Java/J2EE tech stacks
- Good understanding of data structures and algorithms.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced internet start-up environment.
- Experience in technical mentorship/coaching is highly desirable.
- Understanding AI/ML algorithms is a plus.
About Team:
CaratLane's mission is to help customers express their emotions through jewellery. Consumer Experience Technology team is an enabler to deliver the exceptional Consumer Experience and WoW business features in large scale website, apps and backend systems.
What do we want:
* 5 to 8 years of experience in Java and Spring Boot working with large scale backend applications
* Expertise in PostgreSQL and any of caching databases
* Experience in developing RESTful/GraphQL APIs and microservices based applications
* Good problem solving and debugging skills.
* Exposure on event-driven, asynchronous I/O
* Good knowledge of engineering excellence: Unit Testing/TDD, Code quality, Documentation, CI&CD
* Experience in non-functional requirements (Scalability, Performance optimisation, Security)
* Experience is Linux development and AWS ecosystem tools
Requirements:
- 3 -7 years of software development experience.
- Good grasp on programming fundamentals including OOP, Design Patterns and Data Structures.
- Excellent analytical, logical and problem-solving skills.
- Software Development Engineer.
- Good understanding of complexities involved in designing/developing large scale systems.
- Strong system design skills.
- Experience in technologies like Elasticsearch, Redis, Kafka etc.
- Good knowledge of relational and NoSQL databases.
- Familiarity with common machine learning algorithms. In-depth knowledge is a plus.
- Experience of working with big data technologies like Hadoop, Spark, Hive is a big plus.
- Ability to understand business requirements and take ownership of the work.
- Exhibit passion and enthusiasm for building and maintaining large scale platforms.
Responsibilities
Work on the development backend systems for our first product
Build reliable, secure and performant backend systems
Drive test coverage and continuous delivery automation within the team
Requirements
3-5 years of software development experience
Strong computer science fundamentals
Good knowledge of Java ecosystem
Can write code that is readable, maintainable and performant
Good understanding of relational databases, transactions, entity-relationship modeling
Comfortable writing multi-threaded programs
Desired Skills and Experience
Java,J2EE,Spring,Struts
Solid understanding of OOPS concepts and design methodology - good to have Inheritance, aggregation, and composition
Experience with concepts of MVC, JDBC, and Restful API development
Familiarity with build tools such as Ant, Maven, Gradle, and Docker
Sprint BOOT/ MVC framework - Basics (understanding of various Spring Boot components), Spring Initializer, Spring Boot Starters, and Spring Boot Annotations & DevTools
REST and Microservices - Microservices Basics (Concepts, understanding of API Gateway, Service Registry, fault tolerance, load balancing, Config Server)
Creating database schemas that represent and support business processes, queries, and procedures
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as (Git / Mercurial / SVN) and familiarity with Continuous integration and deployment









