Kaleidofin - Software Development Engineer - Java/Spring Boot (3-5 yrs)

Who we are :

Kaleidofin is a fintech focused on the goal to unlock access to tailored finance for women, agriculture and nano entrepreneurs. We provide the ki credit platform, combining credit health assessment (ki score), middleware rails and best-in-class risk management (ki view) to enable the financial ecosystem to better serve customers. By building credit health scores for impactful finance and innovating on debt structures that scale inclusion, Kaleidofin is achieving this goal in India, Bangladesh and East Africa and expanding.

Kaleidofin recently raised USD 13.8 million in a funding round led by Rabo Partnerships, bringing our total capital raised to USD 37 million. This funding fuels our mission to build a digital ecosystem ensuring finance for everyone, everywhere. Over the years, Kaleidofin has been supported by a diverse group of marquee investors, including the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the Michael & Susan Dell Foundation, Oiko Credit, Flourish, Omidyar Network, Blume Ventures, and Bharat Fund, each of whom shares our commitment to financial inclusion and impact.

Kaleidofin has received exceptional international recognition in being featured as one of only six Indian companies on the Forbes 100 To Watch in Asia list and in being selected to present at the United Nations General Assembly Special Task Force Event. The company won the Amazon AI Conclave award for Fintech, was one of only ten startups chosen for the Google LaunchPad Accelerator program in 2019 and was recognized as Indias Most Innovative Wealth, Asset and Investment Management Service/Product by the Internet & Mobile Association of India (IAMAI).

Kaleidofin won the Swanari TechSprint 2023, organized by the RBI Innovation Hub, showcasing its product leadership in the financial inclusion space in India. It was a finalist in the India Fintech Forum Awards (IFTA) 2023 for "Best Use of AI in Fintech" as well as a finalist at the prestigious Global SME Finance Awards 2024 hosted by the SME Finance Forum and International Finance Corporation (IFC). Most recently, Kaleidofin is a finalist at the prestigious G20 TechSprint 2024 - Technology for the Planet.

With its focus to harness technology to deliver seamless experiences and data-centric products, Kaleidofin aims to become a leading player in enabling finance for everyone, everywhere. We also invest in culture and team growth, reflective in our selection as a Great Place to Work for multiple years.

What you'll do ?

We are seeking extremely smart programmers who are gung-ho about building large scale systems
that are going to have a big impact on millions of customers.

You will :

- Design and develop products by working closely with business team.

- Gain experience with hands on coding and independent ownership of software components.

- Build performant, scalable, enterprise ready back-end architectures that can support millions of users in parallel.

- Follow strong engineering best practices and champion their adoption.

Who you need to be ?

- 2+ years' experience in software product development and delivery

- Bachelors or Masters degree in engineering 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.

- Must have shown good stability in all your previous associations.

- Have strong backend knowledge and cloud development exposure.

- Expert at 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 workplace.

- 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

Job location :

- Chennai/Bangalore (work from office-Hybrid)