
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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As a Software Architect, you will play a crucial role in designing, developing, and maintaining robust and scalable backend solutions for our software applications. You will be responsible for making strategic technical decisions, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to ensure the successful delivery of high-quality software products with scalable backend infrastructure.
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- Technical Leadership:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to the development team, ensuring best practices and coding standards are followed.
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- Backend Development:
- Lead the development of backend components, modules, and features primarily on Ruby on Rails tech stack and also be open to contribute in other tech stacks based on Java/Kotlin and Python.
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- Performance Optimization:
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- Participate in code reviews to ensure code quality, adherence to standards, and knowledge sharing within the team.
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- Implement and enforce security best practices to safeguard sensitive data.
- Stay updated on industry trends and emerging technologies to ensure compliance and security standards are met.
- Documentation:
- Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation for the backend architecture, APIs, and development processes.
- Continuous Improvement:
- Proactively identify opportunities for process improvement and contribute to the evolution of development methodologies and practices.
Qualifications:
- Overall 10+ years of experience, with 2+ years as a Software Architect with a focus on backend development using Ruby on Rails.
- In-depth knowledge of Ruby on Rails framework, database design, and API development.
- Strong understanding of software architecture principles, design patterns, and best practices.
- Experience with performance optimization, scalability, and security considerations.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Leadership experience with a demonstrated ability to mentor and guide development teams.
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent work experience).
Bonus points:
- Familiarity with front-end technologies and frameworks(ReactJs).
- Experience with other programming languages.(Kotlin/Python)
- Experience with cloud platforms and microservices architecture.
- Knowledge of DevOps practices and tools.(AWS, Kubernetes, )
Join us in revolutionizing the way software solutions are developed, and contribute to building cutting-edge applications that make a positive impact on our users and the industry.



Job Description:
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science.
- Proven experience in leading a team of backend engineers
- Strong organizational and project management skills.
- Proficiency with fundamental front end languages such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
- Familiarity with Android development - kotlin, RX-java, design pattern.
- Proficiency with server-side languages such as Spring boot, Hibernate.
- Familiarity with database technology such as MySQL and MongoDB.
- Familiarity with cloud platforms(GCP).
- Experience with Agile/Scrum methodologies
- Excellent verbal communication skills.
- Good problem-solving skills.
- Attention to detail.
- Design and develop Microservices with Java, Spring
- Communicate with the tech lead, to understand the technology thoroughly
- Perform unit and system testing
- Understand business requirements and create plans accordingly
- Work in an agile environment
- Perform threat and risk assessments
Location: Jaipur/ Remote
Employment type: Full-time
What you bring to the team:
Experience
• University degree in Computer Science or other related fields preferred; equivalent experience will be considered.
• 5+ years’ experience
Knowledge
• Experience in Java (min. 3 Years in Production), JDBC / SQL (Oracle or SQL Server or PostgreSQL), Spring Framework (Core, JDBC, Transactions, Spring REST), Hibernate (Core, HQL, Spring Integration).
• Experience in JavaScript (objects, asynchronous, arrays, prototypes, classes).
• Experience in jQuery (or similar framework).
• Experience in Gradle(preferred) or Maven.
• Experience in Jenkins.
• Experience in Apache Tomcat (or similar application server).
• Excellent communication and didactical skills.
• Good level of English.
Represents a Plus
• Groovy
• JEE (Servlets)
• Jasper Reports,
• OpenUI5
• Basic knowledge of JSF
Skills
• Good in problem analysis and judgment – you evaluate the impact of architectural decisions, actions, choices, risks and updates and their impact on the organization.
• Autonomous in executing tasks, preparation of advice, and decision making about the implementation.
• Persistent – you deal with conflicts of interest and obtain a good and acceptable end solution.
• Communicative and persuasive – you can document in a comprehensive way to non-IT colleagues the decisions taken.
Benefits
• You’ll be working for European projects and deal with European culture.
• You’ll have possibility to permanent placed on-site in Europe.
• You’ll be working with motivated people, that love creating products that our customers love.
• You’ll be continuously growing both as an individual and as a professional, by learning on the job.
• You’ll have the change of both solving reliability issues, but also coding reliability from the inception to running the product. As we strive in automating toil away, you’ll work on more and more complex topics.
• You’ll have the opportunity to participate in various initiatives or working groups with the goal of enriching and streamlining our landscape.



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