
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 & Development: Build robust, scalable, and maintainable backend services using Java 17+ and the Spring Boot ecosystem.
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● Database Management: Optimize complex queries and design schemas for relational (PostgreSQL, MySQL) and/or NoSQL (MongoDB, DynamoDB) databases.
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Required Technical Skills
● Java Mastery: Deep understanding of Core Java, Multithreading, and Stream API.
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● Cloud Experience: Proficiency with cloud-native services (e.g., AWS Lambda, S3, RDS, or SQS).
● Messaging: Experience with message brokers like Apache Kafka for asynchronous processing.
● CI/CD: Hands-on experience with Jenkins, GitLab CI, or GitHub Actions.
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Qualifications & Soft Skills
● Experience: 5+ years of professional experience in backend development.
● Problem Solving: Ability to debug complex production issues and performance bottlenecks.
● Communication: Excellent verbal and written communication skills—vital for a remote/hybrid contractor setup.
● Adaptability: Proven ability to quickly learn new codebases and business domains.
Strong Senior Backend Engineer profiles
Mandatory (Experience 1) – Must have 5+ years of hands-on Backend Engineering experience building scalable, production-grade systems
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Mandatory (Experience 4) – Must have strong experience with databases, including SQL and NoSQL, along with efficient data modeling and performance optimization
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- is highly proficient in Java Coreand Spring boot applications including making high quality, highly performing code under JVM environment.
- has good working knowledge in design of n-Tier databases (Postgres, NoSQL DBs e.g. Cassandra/MongoDB)
- has worked in agile development environment under open source gitlab including testing, change management
- is highly proficient in OOD, extensibility, usability, understand data pre-processing
- has exposure to full life cycle of product implementation and deployment of enterprise products driving a subsystem including development under gitlab or github.
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- Strong experience in Core Java, Multi-Threading, data structures (List/Map/Set) and unit testing with (Junit, Mockito)
- Strong experience with Spring Framework (Spring MVC, Spring REST, Spring Data), ORM frameworks (JPA, Hibernate) and RDBMS (Oracle/MySQL/Postgres)
- Strong experience in applying Object-Oriented design principles and Design Patterns
- Good knowledge of Multi-Tier architecture, Micro Services architecture and Service Oriented Architecture
- Exposure to AWS Cloud, NoSQL Database (Mongo, Cassandra), Message Broker (Active
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- Additionally, must possess capability to review code, produce technical specification document
- and knowledge of code quality tools (PMD/FindBugs/Sonar)
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With a focus on meaningful and innovative work, the team at Auriga collaborates to build incredible products and services for clients. They strive for high-quality standards and pursue success together.
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Role Description:
This is a full-time on-site role for a Java Software Engineer at Auriga IT in Jaipur. The Java Software Engineer will be responsible for software development, creating microservices, programming, and utilizing the Spring Framework. They will work on developing Java-based applications and implementing software solutions.
Qualifications:
- Software development, microservices, and programming skills
- Experience with the Spring Framework and Java
- Strong problem-solving and analytical thinking skills
- Knowledge of database systems and SQL
- Experience with version control systems (e.g., Git)
- Familiarity with Agile development methodologies
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
Job Description - 221135
Cloudera is looking for a highly experienced software engineer with strong expertise in Java development and a specialty in platform architecture to join the Cloudera Lens team.
Cloudera Lens is a high-fidelity, context-rich, and fully correlated self-service observability & optimization tool that analyzes the state and wellness of a customer’s environments and empowers them to proactively discover and address unknown unknowns in their data, scale operations without compromising on performance or costs, and expedite remediation of issues.
As a Java engineer, you will be working in a team of engineers led by an Engineering Manager, collaborating with other engineers and stakeholders in India, United States, and other countries around the globe.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, architecture, design, and implementation of key aspects of the Cloudera Lens data collection, data analytics, data correlations, and recommendations.
- Work with product management, engineering, UX, and documentation teams to deliver high-quality products.
- Interact with partners and customers to help define roadmap and shape the technology.
- Empower team members to deliver high-quality software at a fast pace.
Requirements:
- Proven track record of performance.
- Passionate about software engineering. Clean coding habits, attention to detail, and focus on quality and testability.
- Strong software engineering skills: object-oriented design, data structures, algorithms.
- Experience with containerization orchestration technologies: Kubernetes, Docker.
- Deep knowledge of system architecture, including process, memory, storage, and network management is highly desired.
- Experience with the following: Java, concurrent programming, and related areas.
- Experience with Java memory management, performance tuning and scaling
- Experience in building horizontally scalable products handling multi-terabyte datasets is desirable.
- Experience with relational and non-relational databases: PostgreSQL, Amazon S3.
- Strong oral and written communication skills in English.
Advantageous To Have:
- Experience in building enterprise-grade cloud products.
- Experience with building/using cross-functional observability products.
- BS or MS in computer science.
- Cloud experience: AWS, Azure, GCP.
- Python, Linux, Micro Services experience.
Responsibility of / Expectations from the Role:
- Document all technical requirements and design technical solutions utilizing enterprise architecture standards including documenting all solution components and configurations
- Contribute to all phases of the development lifecycle.
- Write well-designed, testable, efficient code.
- Ensure designs follow specifications.
- Ability to work independently.
- Persistent problem solver but know when to ask for help.
- Open-minded, transparent and able to learn and adapt.
- Good communication skills – both written and verbal.
- Teamwork skills with a problem-solving attitude.
Requirements
- High self motivation to lead & build projects from beginning to end;
- You've shipped multiple products and are willing/able to demonstrate how you solved specific problems to solve users needs;
- Excellent communication in presenting your code and communicating what problems they are solving while giving/receiving feedback;
- Ability to quickly grasp goals and requirements from light specifications;
- Must be able to effectively & efficiently work with stakeholders spreads across many timezones;
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- Experience in Springboot, Microservices, JPA, oracle database.
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Perks
- Ground floor opportunity with the team; shape the strategic direction of the company.
- Work with sharp, motivated and passionate co-workers spread across many regions.
- Rare opportunity to make real positive impact on the world!
Roles & Responsibilities:
- Design and Build API/Micro services using Spring boot.
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- Exposure to docker and containerization
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- Proficient understanding of code version tools, such as Git, SVN
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