
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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Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and maintain distributed backend systems at scale.
- Write high-performance, production-grade code in Java.
- Architect and optimize storage systems, ensuring efficient query performance and scalable data models.
- Implement caching strategies to reduce latency and improve system throughput.
- Build and manage services leveraging AWS cloud infrastructure.
- Develop resilient messaging pipelines using Kafka (or equivalent) for real-time data processing.
- Define and streamline CI/CD pipelines, ensuring rapid and reliable deployment cycles.
- Collaborate with product managers, frontend engineers, and DevOps to deliver end-to-end solutions.
- Monitor system performance, identify bottlenecks, and apply proactive fixes.
- Drive best practices in software engineering, testing, and code reviews.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in backend engineering, with deep hands-on coding experience.
- Strong proficiency in Java and familiarity with modern frameworks.
- Proven track record in building scalable distributed systems.
- Hands-on expertise with AWS services (e.g., EC2, S3, Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS).
- Solid understanding of messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, or similar.
- Strong grasp of query performance optimization and storage system design.
- Experience with caching solutions (Redis, Memcached, etc.).
- Familiarity with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc.).
- Excellent problem-solving skills and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive mindset.
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- Proximity Talks: Meet other designers, engineers, and product geeks — and learn from experts in the field.
- Keep on learning with a world-class team: Work with the best in the field, challenge yourself constantly, and learn something new every day.
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What we are looking for:
Experience in building and re-engineering cloud based solutions on AWS.
Strong knowledge of Object Oriented Programming(OOPS) and design patterns is a must.
Hands-on development on Spring MVC framework.
Experience working on Java 8 or above.
Must have very good knowledge of RDBMS such as MySQL and performance tuning of the same.
Exposure to server-side and client-side caching mechanisms.
Ability to debug the applications and provide instant workable solutions.
Experience working on Elastic Search / Kafka / Kubernetes or all is a nice to have.
1. Demonstrable problem solving, analytical skills.
2. Ability to program (at Beginner or Advanced Beginner level in one or more programming
language like Java, C#, Python, JavaScript etc.).
3. Ability to think through a problem at conceptual level and propose solutions.
4. Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
5. Keen desire to learn, stretch and a never-give-up attitude.
6. Very strong interpersonal skills and an easy-going personality.
7. Highly proactive, result-oriented and team player.
8. Ability to stay current with new technology.
Roles and Responsibilities
1. Engineering graduates passing in 2022 starting to kick start their career in technology.
2. Ideal candidate should have hand-on interest in programming and some experience in
writing software applications. If you have a GitHub profile, please provide link to your work.
Nice to have internship / college project.
3. Knowledge of one or more programming language to write fully executable and functional
code is very desirable. Knowledge of databases is also desirable. Both these may be at a
Beginner or Advanced Beginner level.
4. You should be focused, enthusiastic, motivated, and have a desire to progress by learning,
executing and experimenting.
Mandatory Skills:-
• Total experience required 1 years in Java Development.
• Experience on any one of these databases like MySQL OR MongoDB OR Oracle OR
PostgreSQL will work
• Experience in Spring Framework, Hibernate, SpringBoot, REST Web-Services.
• Should have experience with designing and understanding DB schema as per the
business requirements.
• Should have experience with software design patterns.
• Proficient understanding of code versioning tools, such as Git.
Roles and Responsibilities:
• The role covers mostly Java Development with the use of SpringMVC and/or Spring
Boot.
• Analyse product requirements and design to develop efficient, reusable, reliable, and
scalable software with quality conformance.
• Collaborate with the team on architecture, design, code, and configuration reviews.
Desired Candidate Profile
• Good communication skills
• Good troubleshooting skills, analytical and logical skills
• Excellent team spirit and teamwork
• Collaboratively work with the team
• Good to Have: - Experience in Hibernate ORM, Designing Microservices, Experience
in Swagger and Postman.

Responsibilities
- Technical Guidance: You will provide technical leadership to a team of excellent software engineers; this requires that you have the technical depth to make complex design decisions and the hands-on ability to lead by example.
- Execution and Delivery: You will be expected to instill and follow good software development practices and ensure timely delivery of high-quality products. You should be familiar with agile practices as well as be able to adapt these to the needs of the business, with a constant focus on product quality.
- Team management : You will be responsible for hiring and mentoring your team; helping individuals grow in their careers, having constant dialogue about their aspirations and sharing prompt, clear and actionable feedback about performance.
- Technical depth: You have the strong technical competence required to gain credibility. Ability to architect, design and code yourself. Technical experience in building and operating web-based applications. Deep understanding of all layers of the web-stack work (from the client interface to the database.) Knowledge of multiple technology stacks/languages/tools and their pros/cons.
- Execution ability: Focus on delivering products in a timely manner with high quality. Familiarity with multiple software development practices and tools, and the proven ability to adapt, champion and institute good practices and tools.
- You must have a degree in Computer Science or a related field. Strong understanding of object- oriented programming, concurrency and fundamentals of computer-science.
- Total of 9+ years’ experience building cutting edge products. Deep experience in building very large scale applications and 2 + years’ experience in team management.
- Strong problem solving skills, data structures and algorithms.
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Required Skills:
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Work Location: Indira Nagar, Bangalore
Work Days: Sunday to Thursday OR Monday to Friday
Shift: Day Time
Week Off: Friday & Saturday OR Saturday & Sunday
JD:
Development of applications in Java including:
Building data processing platforms.
Developing micro service-oriented applications (Mandatory).
Interact with stakeholders of the applications being developed.
Desired Candidate Profile:
Must have experience in Java JEE, Spring Framework, Microservices (Mandator)
Experience in SQL and JDBC
Experience in build tools Maven, git
Experience in Cloud Platforms AWS, Azure is a plus.
Requirements
- Experience in open source technologies - Solr, Redis, Kafka
- Exposure to building & managing applications in Amazon Webservices (AWS)
- Experience in security, scalability & performance aspects of solution
- Critical Skills: 1. Java / J2EE, Spring, PostGreSQL 2. Nginx, Tomcat 3. Developing REST webservices
Desired Skills and Experience
- Have architected /designed at least 2-3 systems/products of enterprise scale from scratch.
- Have banking and Financial service background and preferably worked in Mobile/Digital platform design and development. Payments /OLTP preferred.
- Should have experience of 20+ years with J2ee, REST, Microservice, API, Messaging, Encryption, security, NLP, ML background.
- Have 7+yrs of experience in Architecture field, designing and end to end not from consulting Architecture.
- Responsible for design, architecture, and delivery of a feature or component/product with the highest quality with high-level directions from architects
- Driving innovations in the platform constantly & remaining ahead of the curve
- Development and testing of features/functions delivered via applications and services.
- Prototype ideas quickly using cutting edge technologies.
- Collaborating with peers and Architects both within their team and across the organization to deliver end-to-end products & features
- Working with product managers using agile methodologies to deliver high quality solutions on time
- Provide functional, design, and code reviews in related areas of expertise with-in team and cross-team.
- Working with operations teams to ensure your applications and services are highly available and reliable
- Mentoring junior engineers in the team both in the technical as well as on the product side
- Define and devise processes, tools and methodologies to achieve excellence in software development, testing and deployment, and in the management of the Centre.
- Good experience in working with any of the programming languages like PHP, Python, Django, Golang, Java, C++
- Experience developing applications that use high volume of data along with experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs.
- Solid knowledge of JAVA, J2EE, data stream, processing, big data etc.
- Comfortable with writing unit tests using JUnit
- Worked with Git and are comfortable with Merge/Rebase concepts.
- Worked with tools such as Eclipse, WebStorm, Ant, Maven, Jenkins, Sonar, JSLint, Grunt and App Servers such as Tomcat, Jboss.
- Solid knowledge of algorithms, design patterns, and componentization approaches.
- Experience and knowledge of open source software, frameworks and broader cutting-edge technologies.
- Experience in software design patterns, problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Ability to determine impact of architectural solutions and recommendations.
- Must have experience in justification of technology solutions to business leaders.
- Experience in refactoring existing codebase and in understanding existing implementations to decide to refactor or rewrite.
- Know how to identify Performance bottlenecks and use good coding patterns to avoid them in the first place.
- Have strong attention to detail.
- Ability to operate effectively both independently as well and within a team using Agile methodology.
- Proven problem-solving and interpersonal communication skills.
- Knowledge of payment domain will be an added advantage
Qualifications
- BE/BTech/ME/MTech in EE/CS or an equivalent qualification.
- 20+yrs of Experience.
- Minimum 12+years of hands on Java programming experience.








