
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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Job Summary:
We are looking for a highly skilled and experienced Java Backend Developer with 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development, system design, and API integration. You’ll play a key role in designing and building high-performance backend systems that are scalable, secure, and reliable. As a core member of the engineering team, you’ll collaborate closely with product owners, architects, and other developers to deliver quality solutions.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop backend components, REST APIs, and microservices using Java and Spring Boot.
- Contribute to the architectural decisions and system design discussions.
- Write clean, efficient, and testable code following best practices.
- Optimize application performance, scalability, and reliability.
- Integrate third-party APIs and work with external systems.
- Participate in code reviews, mentor junior developers, and support the team’s technical growth.
- Work closely with DevOps to support CI/CD pipelines and deployments.
- Troubleshoot and resolve complex issues in production and non-production environments.
- Keep up with industry trends and advocate for best practices in backend development.
Required Skills:
- 4.5+ years of hands-on experience in backend development with Java (Java 8 or above).
- Strong expertise in Spring Framework (Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Spring Data).
- Experience designing and consuming RESTful APIs and working with microservices architecture.
- Solid understanding of relational and NoSQL databases (e.g., MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB).
- Proficient with version control systems like Git and tools like Maven or Gradle.
- Familiarity with Docker, containerization, and cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure).
- Experience with unit testing and integration testing (JUnit, Mockito, etc.).
- Good knowledge of software design principles, data structures, and algorithms.
- Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
Role & responsibilities
- Senior Java developer with 6 to 10 years of experience having worked on Java, SpringBoot, Hibernate, Microservices, Redis, AWS S3
- Contribute to all stages of the software development lifecycle
- Design, implement, and maintain Java-based applications that can be high-volume and low-latency
- Analyze user requirements to define business objectives
- Envisioning system features and functionality
- Define application objectives and functionality
- Ensure application designs conform to business goals
- Develop and test software
- Should have good experience in Code Review
- Expecting to be 100% hands-on while working with the clients directly
- Performing requirement analysis
- Developing high-quality and detailed designs
- Conducting unit testing using automated unit test frameworks
- Identifying risk and conducting mitigation action planning
- Reviewing the work of other developers and providing feedback
- Using coding standards and best practices to ensure quality
- Communicating with customers to resolve issues
- Good Communication Skills
- 2+ year of experience in Development in JAVA technology.
- Strong Java Basics
- SpringBoot or Spring MVC
- Hands on experience on Relationl 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
- 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 of AI/ML algorithms is a plus.

Company, established in 1990 and headquartered in Troy, Michigan, is a leading global information technology, and business process services company with operations across North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, Middle East, and India. We leverage our expertise in legacy and emerging digital technologies to deliver transformative outcomes for our enviable list of clients, which includes Fortune 1000 companies.
Company new vision “Reimagining a better-shared world” and mission “Bringing human expertise to tech for delivering purposeful solutions that amplify value” is at the heart of our transformation approach, powered by cloud, platform mindset, and engagement. Our motto “Let’s make digital change happen” is our commitment to empower our clients to succeed in this digital world. While our values – integrity, teamwork, the pursuit of excellence, committed, customer-centric, and thought-leadership, defines our character and behavior.
Requirements:
Java, Springboot, hibernate, reactjs, angular, microservices
Location: Chennai
Graduate with 4 to 8 yrs of experience
- Hands on programming skills.
- Monitoring application and infrastructure health by using monitoring tools
- Build and deployment automation tools on AWS
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Design and coding experience in Java/golang
- Hands on exposure to GitLab or Github
- 5to 7 years plus experience having implemented Adobe Experience Manager based Solution in a large scale environment
- Deep understanding of Adobe AEM, Apache Sling, Servlets
- Experience developing applications, templates, and components for the Adobe AEM product (WCM, DAM, CRX)
- Experience customizing workflows and integration with other enterprise systems
- Demonstrated experience with Java, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, and related technologies
- Expertise in Java, web development experience, and other Content management system experience.
- Great understanding of Web technologies like XML, HTML, Client Server-side scripting languages such as JavaScript, JSP, and web services development using RESTful implementations.
- Should have exposure on the continuous integration build tools and code quality tools
Responsibilities
- Develop digital consumer experiences based on a foundation of the Adobe AEM product suite, including AEM, CRX, Target, and DAM
- Translate marketing and website needs into AEM specific recommendations and solutions
- Leverage AEM, other state-of-the-art technologies, and integration patterns to solve cross-departmental challenges
- Design and improve internal development methodologies around Adobe AEM solution
- Develop front end and back end components using AEM
We are looking for a Java Developer with experience in building high-performing, scalable, enterprise-grade applications.
You will be part of a talented software team that works on mission-critical applications. Java developer roles and responsibilities include managing Java application development while providing expertise in the full software development lifecycle, from concept and design to testing.
Java developer responsibilities include designing, developing and delivering high-volume, low-latency applications for mission-critical systems.
Experience : 2+ years
Location : Mumbai (WFO only) Initial few months work from home
Notice Period : 0 to 30 days ( Immediate joiners are preferred)
Roles & Responsibilities :
(This role encompassing both API engineering using Java stack and web development
Experience in designing, developing, testing and successfully deploying critical and complex projects.)
- Contribute in all phases of the development lifecycle
- Write well designed, testable, efficient code
- Ensure designs are in compliance with specifications
- Prepare and produce releases of software components
- Support continuous improvement by investigating alternatives and technologies and presenting these for architectural review
· Build reusable code and libraries for future use
Required Skill set :
· Java background with a minimum of 3+ years experience in Java technologies.
· Experience in designing and developing application backend using frameworks like Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Jersey, JPA, Hibernate, SQL, Linux, JSON, XML, OAuth etc.
· Well & good if has Experience with frontend technologies
· Experience with both SQL and NoSQL database systems and writing SQL queries
· Strong experience building, designing, and consuming Restful web services.
· Exposure of Cloud Infrastructure - AWS and Alibaba Cloud
· Excellent understanding of ORM and Database concepts
· Experience with developing unit test code using JUNIT, Power Mock/EasyMock/Mockito etc.
· Experience with Git, Maven and CI/CD pipelines to deploy on Cloud applications
· Experience & knowledge on Micro services Architecture and API development using Java, spring, Spring Boot
· Experienced in roles conducting requirements gathering, writing user stories, creating application design and using design patterns
· Good knowledge on credentials/secrets management and data encryption techniques
· Good knowledge on coding standards, design patterns, unit testing.
· Good hands-on BitBucket/Github is preferred.
We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.
Responsibilities and duties:
- Responsible for the development and unit testing of various modules in JAVA and other related technologies.
- Need to do requirement understanding, preparing initial concept and possible architecture design.
- Responsible for feasibility analysis and POC development.
- Ability to understand the product architecture and end-to-end system flow.
- Ability to relate and analyze tasks as per overall product architecture and philosophy.
- Work in Agile SCRUM development model and be able to plan, estimate, execute and deliver quality work as per committed timeline.
- Ability to continuously analyze and contribute to lean processes, quality improvements, product growth, and productivity improvements within the team.
Required Skills:
- JAVA - Core JAVA Concepts, Socket Communication, Multithreading, Exception Handling, Collections Framework, Reflections, I/O, XML, HTML, JSON, YML
- Database version management tools like Liquibase etc.
- Version control system like GIT. Hands-on experience with strong knowledge of branching, merging,
- Build systems like Maven, Gradle, Ant etc.
- Hands-on experience in running development environment on Unix/Linux (Ubuntu, CentOS).
- Cloud computing experience, Integration with third-party devices, experience in writing REST APIs, shell scripting knowledge will be an added advantage.
We are looking for Product Developers-Java Technology with hands-on experience in Core java and socket programming with the flair for working on cutting-edge solutions.



