
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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Key Responsibilities:
· Design, develop, and maintain AEM-based backend solutions, components, and templates.
· Develop custom AEM Sling models, servlets, services, and OSGi components.
· Build and integrate RESTful services and APIs to support frontend and third-party systems.
· Work closely with frontend developers and AEM content authors to support dynamic content delivery.
· Develop automation scripts using Java/Python for data handling, deployment, and reporting needs.
· Implement AEM workflows, user permissions, and version control for content.
· Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues in AEM environments.
· Optimize AEM performance, scalability, and security configurations.
What You’ll Bring:
· Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
· Proven experience delivering high-quality web applications.
Mandatory Skills
· 3+ years of experience in AEM backend development.
· Strong hands-on experience with Java, OSGi, Sling, and JCR.
· Experience with Python for backend scripting, automation, or integration tasks.
· Knowledge of AEM architecture including dispatcher, replication agents, and workflows.
· Experience working with AEM APIs, servlets, event handlers, schedulers, and custom components.
· Understanding of REST APIs, JSON/XML data handling.
· Familiarity with Maven, Git, Jenkins, and Agile development practices
Preferred Skills (Nice to Have):
· Exposure to Adobe Experience Cloud tools like Adobe Target, Analytics, Campaign.
· Working knowledge of cloud-based AEM (Adobe as a Cloud Service) is a plus.
· Basic familiarity with frontend technologies (React/Angular/HTL) is beneficial.
Looking for candidates only with tier 1 colleges OR have experience in a product-based company.
Desired Skills :
● Experience with data modeling and SQL/NoSQL databases
● Experience with distributed systems and microservices
● Good experience in working with any of Java/SpringBoot, GoLang or NodeJS
● Excellent problem solving and debugging skills
● Passionate about the experience of software engineering as much as the output
● A strong sense of ownership
● Ability to communicate your ideas and approach to solving problems with clarity
Experience/skills required
Key Qualifications
- Developer Role:
- Preferably Java
- CI/CD - DevOps (Exposure)
- Messaging Middleware (Exposure to Kafka or any other messaging middleware)
- DB: Oracle (pref) - any other Database platforms (SQL/NoSQL)
- Server Side: Java, Spring boot Microservices
- Exposure to Any Major Cloud Platform (AWS/Azure/GCP)
1. Need to have an understanding of Elastic Search, Kafka, mongo DB, etc.
2. Should have experience of Jupter noobooks, data bricks
3. Java, Pythons
4. Senior level, 5-10 years of experience
5. It is important they have those skills so that they can take over current work. There are codes written in both Java as well as Python. (Java is legacy but that is the main search engine code). So it will be counter-productive if engineers hired have experience in both.
6. Excellent communication, analytical, research, grasping skills
2. Data structure (HashMap, treemap, arraylist, linklist),
3. Streaming concepts (partitioning), Junit
4. Exception handling and workflow, Test coverage (why its important, how it gets handled at
java and spring layer, morckito library if the candidate knows that would be great),
5. OOPS concepts (inheritance),
6. Threading (mutex, threadpool, threading implementation, singleton factory, builder pattern,
abstract)
7. Real world problems (atleast 1 to be asked in IAAS interview) (movie ticket booking, parking
booking), To be asked to only selected candidates: Puzzle (probability/)
8. Memory management: Garbage Collection (GC), Heap dump, Thread dump, apache, google
library.
9. Spring frameworks and database. Data lakes, star lakes, schemas, indexing, partitioning,
optimize query, hibernate.
10. Data warehouse vs nosql vs time series database (KDB, DB2), data storage patterns.
11. Types of transaction control. Column level.
12. Query formation, grouping, nested queries, joints (inner joints, outer joints)
13. If candidate has spring exp: Architecture and various layers of Spring, coupling concepts,
dependency injections, inheritance, Bean level, JMS connection pooling concepts, Lambda,
Annotation vs XML, Kafka, Hibernates.
14. Good to have AI/ML inclination.
Bifurcation of Must have and good to have skills:
Must have skills Good to have skills
Core java (60%), spring (15%), and databases
(15%).
Mockito library
Data structure (HashMap, tree map, array list,
link list)
Threadpool
Streaming concepts (partitioning) Memory management
Exception handling Lambda, Annotation vs XML, Kafka, Hibernates
OOPS GCP or any cloud technology
Threading (singleton factory, builder pattern) AI/ML inclination
Real world problems (movie ticket booking,
parking booking)
Spring frameworks and database (indexing,
partitioning, layers of Spring, JMS connection)
Data warehouse vs NoSQL vs time series
database
Junit
• 4+ years of software development experience in Java 8. Knowledge of Java 9.
• Experience in developing micro services in Spring Boot or Node.js. Experience in security, transaction, Idempotency, log tracing,
distributed caching, monitoring and containerization requirements of Micro services. Experience in developing High Cohesion &
Loosely Coupled Micro Services
• Should have excellent acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/Analytical skills. Thorough
understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different type of Design patterns.
• Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc. Good
fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Autoboxing, etc.
• Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by, aggregate functions, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with JMS. Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices. Hands-on
experience with Spring.
• Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks. Should have practical experience with
Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control systems like Git/SVN etc.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects. Sound
understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven development.
• 4+ years of software development experience in Java 8. Knowledge of Java9.
• Experience in developing micro services in Spring Boot or Node.js. Experience in security, transaction, Idempotency, log tracing,
distributed caching, monitoring and containerization requirements of Micro services. Experience in developing High Cohesion &
Loosely Coupled Micro Services
• Should have excellent acumen in Data Structures, Algorithms, problem-solving and Logical/Analytical skills. Thorough
understanding of OOPS concepts, Design principles and implementation of different type of Design patterns.
• Sound understanding of concepts like Exceptional handling, Serialization/Deserialization and Immutability concepts, etc. Good
fundamental knowledge in Enums, Collections, Annotations, Generics, Autoboxing, etc.
• Experience with Multithreading, Concurrent Package and Concurrent APIs
• Basic understanding of Java Memory Management (JMM) including garbage collections concepts.
• Experience in RDBMS or NO SQL databases and writing SQL queries (Joins, group by, aggregate functions, etc.)
• Hands-on experience with JMS. Hands-on experience in creating RESTful webservices and consuming webservices. Hands-on
experience with Spring.
• Hands-on experience with any of the logging frameworks (SLF4J/LogBack/Log4j)
• Experience of writing Junit test cases using Mockito / Powermock frameworks. Should have practical experience with
Maven/Gradle and knowledge of version control systems like Git/SVN etc.
• Good communication skills and ability to work with global teams to define and deliver on projects. Sound
understanding/experience in software development process, test-driven development.
Additional information
• Gender-Neutral Policy
• 18 paid holidays throughout the year for NCR/BLR (22 For Mumbai)
• Generous parental leave and new parent transition program
• Flexible work arrangements
• Employee Assistance Programs to help you in wellness and well being
Roles and Responsibilities
• 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.
• Lead from the front, when it comes to delivering high quality work products. Serve
as a mentor to the team members
• Create and define performance metrics. Ideate, innovate and hack through the
existing systems to improve performance.
• Perform code reviews, set coding practices and guidelines within the team.
• Make sense of the product specs, be nimble in getting the issues resolved. Be a
thought leader.
Critical Functional Skills:
• Solid understanding and knowledge of Java/C/C++. You should understand the
concepts of multithreading, I/O, messaging, instrumentation etc and their
implementation in Java/Any other Object-Oriented Language.
• Proficiency in the implementation of algorithms and the use of advanced data
structures to solve problems in computing. A solid foundation in the principles of
computer science is desired.
• Ability to write clean, modular, and loosely coupled code by the use of design
patterns.
• He/She should be able to break down and architect complex software systems. For
example- Build
• Cars Availability Engine for Ola.
• Strong decision-making ability
• Deep expertise in at least one programming language & tech stack.
• Substantial experience in building complex and scalable solutions.
• Strong object-oriented design skills, ability to apply design patterns, and an uncanny
ability to design intuitive module and class-level interfaces
• The ability to do deep problem solving and build elegant, maintainable solutions to
complex problems.
• Experience leading multi-engineer projects and mentoring junior engineers
• Experience with full life cycle development in any programming language on a Linux
platform
• Comprehensive operational experience including, optimizations, deployments and
tuning servers like apache/mysql/tomcat/solr
• Prior experience in working with Agile software methodologies (XP, Scrum), TDD,
and Continuous Integration(CI/CD) a plus.
• Experience in building data-driven web application design and development is a plus
• Expert level experience in building a scalable, large and complex business
application.
Experience Required:
• Typically with an experience of 5+ years of development experience in a product
firm.
• Must have lead, designed, architected and delivered at least 1 project in his previous
assignments independently.
Minimum Qualifications Required:
• Btech/MS from a reputed Institute
• Deep expertise with any or combination programming languages: Java, C++, C#,
Ruby, Scala,
• Go any object-oriented high-level proprietary or open-source language with strong
programming constructs. We are not skill-specific but go by strength in
competencies
• Machine coding
• Single machine in-memory program
• Need a working code with functionality
• Readable and well-designed code with right abstractions, separation of concerns,
• right design patterns
• Performant code with concurrency and efficient data structures
• Write test cases covering the happy path and edge cases
• Problem Solving
• Choose the right combination of data structures to solve the problem
• Identify most edge cases for the problem
• Identify opportunities of parallelism: utilizes multi-core solutions where applicable
• Design & Architecture
• Distributed systems design and system interaction
• Identify API signatures
• LLD with class design
• Solve for performance & availability
| • Experience of over 5+ years with solid understanding of object-oriented design • Proficient in Java, J2EE and related technologies. • Experienced in using Spring Boot, messaging systems. • Good understanding of relational database performance concepts and usage of ORM frameworks such as Hibernate • Expert understanding of the object-oriented design and programming concepts • Strong Knowledge on Data Structures, Algorithms and Collections. • Solid experience building applications on top of RESTful APIs. • Knowledge/experience with Spring MVC • Stroing knowledge in developing and executing automated unit, functional and integration tests • Good communication and analytical skills. • Strong trouble shooting skills. |









