
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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Value: Exploring technologies and implementing them on the projects provided they make business sense and deliver value.
Engagement: Be it offshore or onshore, we engage ourselves daily with the clients. This assists in building a trustworthy relationship at the same time, collaborating to come up with strategic solutions to business problems.
Solution: We are involved in providing hands-on contributions towards Backend & Front-end design and development at the same time, flourishing our DevOps culture.
Thought Leadership: Attend or present technical meet-ups/workshops/conferences to share knowledge and help build Technogise brand.
Note: All our roles are customer-facing roles.
This is a full-time Dynamic-hybrid role as a Technology Consultant (Developer) located in Pune and Bangalore.
Core Skills:
- We are looking for 4-8 years and 8-12 years of industry experience exclusively in Java /backend tech/ Full stack
- You are also an advocate of good engineering practices
- Influence technical decision-making and high-level design decisions - choice of frameworks and tech approach
- Demonstrate the ability to understand different approaches for application, and integration and influence decisions by making appropriate trade-offsWays of working:
- You communicate effectively with other roles in the project at the team and client levels
- You drive discussions effectively at the team and client levels. Encourage others to participate
Going beyond:
- Establish credibility within the team as a result of technical and leadership skills
- Mentoring fellow team members within the project team and providing technical guidance to others beyond project boundaries
- Actively participate in organisational initiatives

Mandatory Criteria :
- Candidate must have Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments.
- Candidate should have Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI).
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Candidate should have strong Backend experience.
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
About the Role
We are looking for a highly skilled and motivated Cloud Backend Engineer with 4–7 years of experience, who has worked extensively on at least one major cloud platform (GCP, AWS, Azure, or OCI). Experience with multiple cloud providers is a strong plus. As a Senior Development Engineer, you will play a key role in designing, building, and scaling backend services and infrastructure on cloud-native platforms.
# Experience with Kubernetes is mandatory.
Key Responsibilities
- Design and develop scalable, reliable backend services and cloud-native applications.
- Build and manage RESTful APIs, microservices, and asynchronous data processing systems.
- Deploy and operate workloads on Kubernetes with best practices in availability, monitoring, and cost-efficiency.
- Implement and manage CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure automation.
- Collaborate with frontend, DevOps, and product teams in an agile environment.
- Ensure high code quality through testing, reviews, and documentation.
Required Skills
- Strong hands-on experience with Kubernetes of atleast 2 years in production environments (mandatory).
- Expertise in at least one public cloud platform [GCP (Preferred), AWS, Azure, or OCI].
- Proficient in backend programming with Python, Java, or Kotlin (at least one is required).
- Solid understanding of distributed systems, microservices, and cloud-native architecture.
- Experience with containerization using Docker and Kubernetes-native deployment workflows.
- Working knowledge of SQL and relational databases.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience working across multiple cloud platforms.
- Familiarity with infrastructure-as-code tools like Terraform or CloudFormation.
- Exposure to monitoring, logging, and observability stacks (e.g., Prometheus, Grafana, Cloud Monitoring).
- Hands-on experience with BigQuery or Snowflake for data analytics and integration.
Nice to Have
- Knowledge of NoSQL databases or event-driven/message-based architectures.
- Experience with serverless services, managed data pipelines, or data lake platforms.
• BS/MS in Computer Science or equivalent from a premier institute Strong development, coding experience in one or more programming languages like OO Programming (Java), Functional/Scripting languages.
• Expertise in Data Structures, Algorithms, Concurrency.
• Expertise in Micro-services Architecture, multi-threading, performance-oriented programming and designing skills
• Strong software design/development experience in building massively large-scale distributed internet systems and products
• Experience of working on Big Data technologies and applications
• Expertise in one or more persistence technologies (Cassandra, Redis, ElasticSearch, RDBMS).
• Superior organization, communication, interpersonal and leadership skills
• Must be a proven performer and team player that enjoy challenging assignments in a high-energy, fast-growing and start-up workplace
• Must be a self-starter who can work well with minimal guidance and in a fluid environment
• Provide good attention to details
• Must be excited by challenges surrounding the development of highly scalable & distributed system for building audience targeting capabilities
• Agility and ability to adapt quickly to changing requirements and scope and priorities
Founder’s LinkedIn profile
Dheeraj Pandey
(Founder, Investor, & Then-CEO of Nutanix / One of the Indian origin guy out of 10 Board Member of- Adobe / Alumni- IIT, Kanpur & University of Texas, Austin)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/dpandey/
&
Chandra Nath
(Vice President- Nutanix/ Vice President, Head of International- Ola (ANI Technologies Pvt Ltd) – Alumni- IIT, Kanpur, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chandranath/
&
Manoj Agarwal
(Co-Founder at Stealth Startup, Previously SVP Engineering & GM Hybrid Cloud at Nutanix/ Alumni- IIT, Kanpur)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/">https://www.linkedin.com/in/devreveler/
- Headquarters: Austin, Texas, United States
- Year founded: 2020.
- Work Location: Bangalore
- Team size: 35-40 (In US from companies like Google, Airbnb, Blizzard, Facebook, Palantir, Microsoft, CapitalOne, Nutanix and Confluent)
- Funding: 50 M USD (raised the largest seed round in the history of Silicon Valley)
Note:
We already have a team of 30-35 people in San Jose, California, United States, now we are building a new team in india and they are hiring 0-5 years of rock stars from top notch colleges (Top 5 ranked IIT’s only & BITS) & companies only.
Note:
Basically, I did not have the exact JD with myself, but I can arrange an Exploratory call for you with above senior and core members of a company (Dheeraj/Chandra/Manoj).
Job Role – Backend developer.
If you think, you are one of them then please reply with your interest and we will take your candidature ahead for next level of evaluation. (No Bar of budget for strong candidate).
Looking forward to taking you to the next level of technology.
Warm Regards,
Rahul Rajput
Senior talent acquisition
PhonePe is India’s leading digital payments platform with over 280 million registered users. Using
PhonePe, users can send and receive money, recharge mobile, DTH, data cards, pay at stores,
make utility payments, buy gold, and make investments. PhonePe went live for customers in
August 2016 and was the first non-banking UPI app and offered money transfer to individuals
and merchants, recharges and bill payments to begin with. In 2017, PhonePe forayed into
financial services with the launch of digital gold, providing users with a safe and convenient
option to buy 24-karat gold securely on its platform. PhonePe has since launched Mutual Funds
and Insurance products like tax-saving funds, liquid funds, international travel insurance, Corona
Care, a dedicated insurance product for the COVID-19 pandemic among others.
PhonePe launched its Switch platform in 2018, and today its customers can place orders on over
300 apps including Ola, Myntra, IRCTC, Goibibo, RedBus, Oyo etc. directly from within the
PhonePe mobile app. PhonePe is accepted at over 18 million merchant outlets across 500 cities
nationally.
Culture
At PhonePe, we take extra care to make sure you give your best at work, Everyday! And creating
the right environment for you is just one of the things we do. We empower people and trust
them to do the right thing. Here, you own your work from start to finish, right from day one.
Being enthusiastic about tech is a big part of being at PhonePe. If you like building technology
that impacts millions, ideating with some of the best minds in the country and executing on your
dreams with purpose and speed, join us!
Challenges
Building for Scale, Rapid Iterative Development, and Customer-centric Product Thinking at each
step defines every day for a developer at PhonePe. Though we engineer for a 50million+ strong
user base, we code with every individual user in mind. While we are quick to adopt the latest in
Engineering, we care utmost for security, stability, and automation. Apply if you want to
experience the best combination of passionate application development and product-driven
thinking
As a Software Engineer:
3+ years of experience in the art of writing code and solving problems on a Large Scale.
You will build Robust and scalable web-based applications You will need to think of
platforms & reuse
Build abstractions and contracts with separation of concerns for a larger scope
Drive problem-solving skills for high-level business and technical problems.
Do high-level design with guidance; Functional modeling, break-down of a module
Do incremental changes to architecture: impact analysis of the same
Do performance tuning and improvements in large scale distributed systems
Mentor young minds and foster team spirit, break down execution into phases to bring
predictability to overall execution
Work closely with Product Manager to derive capability view from features/solutions, Lead
execution of medium-sized projects
Work with broader stakeholders to track the impact of projects/features and proactively
iterate to improve them As a senior software engineer you must have
Extensive and expert programming experience in at least one general programming
language (e.g. Java, C, C++) & tech stack to write maintainable, scalable, unit-tested code.
Experience with multi-threading and concurrency programming
Extensive experience in object-oriented design skills, knowledge of design patterns, and
huge passion and ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
Excellent coding skills – should be able to convert the design into code fluently
Knowledge of Test Driven Development
Good understanding of databases (e.g. MySQL) and NoSQL (e.g. HBase, Elasticsearch,
Aerospike, etc)
Strong desire to solving complex and interesting real-world problems
Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
Go-getter attitude that reflects in energy and intent behind assigned tasks
Worked in a startups environment with high levels of ownership and commitment
BTech, MTech, or Ph.D. in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent).
Experience in building highly scalable business applications, which involve implementing
large complex business flows and dealing with a huge amount of data.
An open communicator who shares thoughts and opinions frequently listens intently and
takes constructive feedback.
As a Software Engineer, good to have
The ability to drive the design and architecture of multiple subsystems
Ability to break-down larger/fuzzier problems into smaller ones in the scope of the product
Understanding of the industry’s coding standards and an ability to create appropriate
technical documentation.
PhonePe Full Time Employee Benefits
Insurance Benefits - Medical Insurance, Critical Illness Insurance, Accidental Insurance, Life
Insurance
Wellness Program - Employee Assistance Program, Onsite Medical Center, Emergency
Support System
Parental Support - Maternity Benefit, Paternity Benefit Program, Adoption Assistance
Program, Day-care Support Program
Mobility Benefits - Relocation benefits, Transfer Support Policy, Travel Policy
Retirement Benefits - Employee PF Contribution, Flexible PF Contribution, Gratuity, NPS,
Leave Encashment
Other Benefits - Higher Education Assistance, Car Lease, Mobile & Broadband
Reimbursements, Salary Advance Policy
Position - Software Development Engineer
Responsibilities
- Develop new user-facing features
- Build reusable code and libraries for future use
- Ensure the technical feasibility of API integrations
- Optimize application for maximum speed and scalability
- Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders
Requirements
- Proficient understanding of Java 8 or plus, Spring Frameworks, Spring Boot & Microservices
- Strong problem solving skills and good with product understanding
- Good understanding of server-side programming and integration with UI components.
- Good understanding of MySQL and any one NoSQL
- Good understanding of asynchronous request handling, partial page updates, and AJAX
- Proficient understanding of code repositories like git
- 2- 5 years of experience
Personal Characteristics
- Passion and commitment
- Coding enthusiastic
- High integrity
- Self-starter
Key Skills
- Java
- Spring
- Spring Boot
- J2EE

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Total of 3-5 years of experience building cutting-edge products.
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Must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object-oriented programming, concurrency, and fundamentals of computer science.
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Technically Hands-on, prior experience with scalable Architecture.
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Bring 3-5 years of software engineering and product delivery experience, with a strong background in algorithms.
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Excellent command over Data Structures and Algorithm Proficiency in implementation of algorithms and use of advanced data structures to solve problems in computing
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Exceptional coding skills in an Object-Oriented programming language (Python preferred with Django framework).
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Strong problem-solving and analytical skills.
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Experience with web technologies Java/Python, Linux, Apache, MySQL, solr, memcache, redis.
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Experience in architecting & building real-time, large-scale e-commerce applications.
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Experience with high-performance websites catering to millions of daily traffic is a plus.
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Java/ Python, MySQL, Redis, ElasticSearch, Problem Solving, Scalability, Design Patterns, Distributed System
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Develop complex software products that include scale, algorithmic complexity, and a huge amount of data.
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Build cutting-edge scalable systems by writing simple and efficient code.
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Code, develop, design, and architect features related to the existing application. We expect you to own modules end to end and take pride in the work products you ship
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Contribute to all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle including design, architecture, development, documentation, testing, and operations.
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Design, implement, and maintain highly scalable, multi-tier, distributed server software applications
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Deliver across the entire app life cycle, design, build, deploy, test, release to app stores, and support
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Working directly with developers and product managers to conceptualize, build, test, and release products
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Take responsibility for performance and stability for all server functions
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Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximize development efficiency

Job Location: Bangalore
Experience : 3 – 8 Yrs
Qualification : IITs/NITs/IIITs/BITS, pliani, Tier1/II Engineering Colleges
Skills Required :
• Mandatory – Educational Background should be from Tier1/II institutes only.
• A bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent combination of Technical education and work experience.
• Strong Object Oriented Design and skills (C/C++ and/or Java/C# on Unix/Linux/Windows platform).
• Solid software development background including design patterns, data structures & algorithms.
• Solid experience with distributed (multi-tiered) management systems, algorithms and relational databases.
• Proficiency using modern web development technologies and techniques including JavaScript, Ajax, Responsive Design Etc.
• Strong customer focus, ownership, urgency and drive.
• Having experience in Hospitality/Travel/Internet/Online/Start-up/IT/Logistic/Courier/Cargo/ Transportation would be preferable.







