
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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- Core Java 5.0 and above
- Extensive experience in developing enterprise-scale n-tier applications for the financial domain.
- Should possess good architectural knowledge and be aware of enterprise application design patterns.
- Should have the ability to analyze, design, develop and test complex, low-latency client-facing applications.
- Good development experience with RDBMS, preferably Sybase database
- Good knowledge of multi-threading and high volume server side development
- Experience in sales and trading platforms in investment banking/capital markets
- Basic working knowledge of Unix/Linux.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Should have the ability to express their design ideas and thoughts.
Job Responsibilities:
* Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable Java code
* Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
* Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
* Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization
* Prepare the technical design of complex technology components
Mandatory Skills:
* Proficient in Java (JDK 1.7) or above JDK 8 preferable, with a good knowledge of its ecosystems with a knack for writing clean, readable Java code, writing reusable Java libraries along with knowledge of concurrency patterns in Java
* Solid understanding of object-oriented programming along with various design and architectural patterns
* Hands on experience with Spring, Spring Boot, JUnit
* Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Microservices, RESTful
Technical Overview:
● You will be expected to design, develop and maintain large-scale complex backend web applications.
● You will be expected to rapidly learn and apply relevant new technologies.
● You will be having a high level of interaction with business and product stakeholders.
● You will be working on the entire web application stack, which includes:
o Web server hosting
o RESTful communication
o Message brokering
o Backend application layer, which includes the service and domain layers
o Data layer for persistence or caching
● You will be participating in an agile software development cycle, which includes:
o Design
o Development
o Code Review
o Unit and Integration Testing
o Release
● As a Staff Engineer, you will be expected to contribute to design, code review, refactoring, and project management.
● You will be exposed to the following technologies:
o Web application frameworks: Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Java Play, Vert.x, AIOHTTP, AWS Lambda
o Languages: Ruby, Java, Kotlin, Javascript, Python
o Data stores: PostgreSQL, Aerospike, Redis, Amazon Redshift
o Communication: HTTP, Amazon SQS, Sidekiq, Amazon SNS
o Server Management: Amazon ECS, Docker
Product Overview:
You will be contributing to products concerning both customers and partner drivers.
Product sectors include:
1) Growth: You’ll build tools to help boost user growth on the platform including our industry-best driver onboarding, training and certification system, referral system, and lead management models.
2) Lifecycle Management: Build tools to help users engage with the platform better, which include rewards and recognition modules, subscription services account management tools, partner and customer wallets and payout modules, and churn detection systems among others.
3) Transaction Experience: You’ll help deliver the most delightful booking experience to our customers and drivers. As part of this team, you’ll be responsible for our core booking system, pricing and payment
systems, location tracking and filtering services, fraud prevention systems, and in-app ticketing and support among others.
4) Fulfilment: As part of the fulfillment team, you’ll work on systems that ensure a high degree of ride fulfillment on the platform. Tools include allocation methodologies and systems, dynamic pricing, dynamic partner routing, and partner re-activation tools among others.
5) Enterprise Solutions: You’ll help Porter’s enterprise customers achieve delivery excellence. You’ll build tools for contract management, fleet management, fleet and route optimization tools, alerting and monitoring tools, and analytics suite among others.
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· 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.
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About Dunzo
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We were recently voted #3 on LinkedIn’s Top Startups in India and here’s why. The Dunzo team gets an on ground opportunity to shape a product for users across cities. You are shaping cities you’ve grown up in - by making them more accessible than before through the use of technology. We’re solving an extremely tough problem, and we seek the best of minds who are great at problem-solving, passionate and willing to go the extra mile!
About The Team
As a team, we believe that the best idea wins - no matter where the idea comes from. We tackle problems that have existed for years - through technology and data. You'll be joining a vibrant, young team who are passionate about giving our users time back, provide flexible earning opportunities for our Partners and enhance local businesses.
Job Description
Must Haves :
- Proficient in algorithms and data structures.
- Having strong experience in designing data intensive and scalable systems.
- Comfortable with microservices based architecture.
- Knowledge of software engineering processes and unit testing.
- Past experience of mentoring a team of at least two people.
- Prior experience with both relational and non-relational databases.
- Prior experience with caching.
- Ability to debug and hotfix a problem with production in a swift amount of time.
- Communication skills.
Please let me know if you are interested.

