
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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The right person is better than the right set of experiences and these are the traits we’ve
identified make great additions to our team.
BE//BTech/ME/MTech in Computer Science or a related field from a Tier I or Tier II
University.
6-8 years of hands-on software development and deployment experience (experience of
working in a consumer product startup during its growth phase will be a plus) of which 1 – 2
years of experience would be in leading a team of software developers.
Expertise in Java 8+ and Spring Boot is a must
Good experience in messaging platforms like RabbitMQ/Kafka
Good experience in distributed systems and relational & NoSQL databases like PostgreSQL,
MySQL, Redis, MongoDB, etc.
Expertise in one or more of: Python, NodeJS, GoLang would be preferred
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handle CPU intensive jobs, consist of multiple asynchronous system calls.
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Responsibilities include:
- Coordinate and clarify the requirements and technical issues (including client interaction)
- Support creation of high and low level design
- Development and maintenance of automation code
- Build reusable Business objects as required
- Review the automation implemented code
- Deploy the code to multiple environments phase wise
- Provides regular status updates to clients and management
- Participates in research/design/implementation of appropriate automation tools
- Develop .net libraries using C# /.Net
- Design and develop SQL scripts – Stored procedures, queries, and functions
- Perform unit testing, support systems integration testing and UAT testing
- Raise ticket and co-ordinate with IT team and CS team
- Analyze, estimate and implement special projects
- Effectively manage multiple priorities / assist with various projects as they arise.
- Accurately track, monitor, and report progress and obstacles
- Travel requirements will be modest, working hours must be flexible to deal with international time zone and key process owners located throughout the world.
Education, Experience, & Required Skills:
- Bachelor degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent is required
- 7+ years of overall IT experience
- 2+ years of overall development experience with leading RPA tool.
- Certified RPA Tool (UiPath, UiPath X, Blue Prism, Automation Anywhere) as developer
- Programming experience in Java, .Net, C, C#, .Net, Python
- Sufficient knowledge of RDBMS like ORACLE / MS SQL Server and SQL tools
- Knowledge in developing & understanding excel macros codes.
- Knowledge in Power BI, Excel Macro, web forms, mobile applications are preferable.
- Knowledge of service oriented architecture is preferable.
- Knowledge in Finance & Accounting domain is preferable.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Excellent organization and communication skills.
- Effectively interact with various levels of management.
- Ability to multitask.
Responsibilities:
Design, develop and maintain software applications using Java programming language
Write well-designed, testable, efficient code
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify, prioritize and execute tasks in a timely manner
Troubleshoot and debug software issues
Ensure software quality by performing thorough testing and code reviews
Keep up-to-date with new technologies and programming languages
Participate in the full software development lifecycle, including planning, designing, coding, testing, and deploying software
Document software development processes, procedures and code changes
Provide technical guidance to team members
Requirements:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field
Minimum of 3 years of experience in Java development
Strong knowledge of Java programming language and related frameworks (Spring, Hibernate, etc.)
Proficient in using development tools (Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA, etc.)
Experience with relational databases (Oracle, MySQL, etc.)
Familiarity with software development methodologies (Agile, Scrum, etc.)
Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
Strong communication and teamwork skills
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Master's degree in Computer Science or related field
Experience with microservices architecture
Familiarity with front-end technologies (HTML, CSS, JavaScript, etc.)
Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (AWS, Azure, etc.)
Experience with DevOps practices and tools (Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, etc.)
Experience-3-5 yrs
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Skills: Core java,j2EE,oops,Spring,Microservices
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Expert knowledge of computer science, with strong competencies in data structures, algorithms,
and software design.
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Strong understanding of end-to-end architectures and development frameworks; knowledge
across tiers in a multi-tier cloud environment including load balancers, web servers, application
containers, data stores, and distributed caches.
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Minimum 6 years of experience with deep technical knowledge and hands on skills in Java.
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Has worked extensively on caching technologies such as Redis, memcache.
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Should be strong with Data Strcutures, Algorithms & OOPs concepts.
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Worked on NoSQL databases such as MongoDb.
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Designed and developed highly scalable multi-threaded large scale distributed systems.
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Well versed with services and micro-services architecture.
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Usage of containers, virtual machine systems, cloud computing.
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- Provide objective guidance without personal or political considerations.
- Pitching ideas for projects based on gaps in the market and technological advancements.
- Rolling out fixes and upgrades to software, as needed.
- Securing software to prevent security breaches and other vulnerabilities.
- Setting up a continuous build environment to speed up software development and deployment process.
- Architecting overall, comprehensive, and efficient practices.
- Guiding developers and operation teams in case of an issue.
- Monitoring, reviewing, and managing technical operations.
Requirements:
- Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field.
- Previous experience working on a 24x7 cloud or SaaS operation team.
- Spring Boot Java 8, Spring Core, Spring Boot, Spring MVC, Swagger, Tomcat 8, Maven, Jenkins, SVN, GIT, Postman/Newman, RESTful Services, Containers.
- Experience with infrastructure management and monitoring.
- Proven in developing, implementing, and providing solutions to the given problem in all Java technologies.
- Proficient in stitch-together end-to-end application starting from front-end web development, back-end development, middleware integration, and persisting data in no SQL or DBMS databases.
- Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
- 2+ years of experience in Java Development with sound knowledge of core Java
- Should have strong hands on experience with developing web applications using Servlets and JSP, Spring, Hibernate, Web Services, HTML, JavaScript
- Should have experience of working on Tomcat/Glassfish
- Experience of Google App Engine or AWS will be added advantage
- Strong knowledge of OOAD
- Comfortable working on Linux/Unix
- Good communication skills and good organization
- Willingness to work in a team environment, as well as
- Willingness to learn new
Responsibilities:
- Write production quality code in Java, J2EE, and Spring
- Adhere to software development and source control processes, git is added Advantage
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- Participate in design and implementation of new software.
- Work closely with users, technical leads, project managers, and other cross-functional development
- Execute on the provided design. Active coding in key technologies is required for this development position and includes: Java/J2EE, Tomcat, Web Services, REST, and spring, Hibernate/Ibatis, XML, UNIX and
- As part of the software development process you will need to create, review, and maintain all required technical documentation related to assigned software to ensure supportability and reuse.
- This individual must develop software using disciplined software development processes, adhering to team/company standards and software best practice guidelines, and corporate policies.



