Tally Software Engineer

Job Details

- Job Title: Lead Software Engineer - Java, Python, API Development

- Industry: Global digital transformation solutions provider

- Domain - Information technology (IT)

- Experience Required: 8-10 years

- Employment Type: Full Time

- Job Location: Pune & Trivandrum/ Thiruvananthapuram

- CTC Range: Best in Industry

Job Description

Job Summary

We are seeking a Lead Software Engineer with strong hands-on expertise in Java and Python to design, build, and optimize scalable backend applications and APIs. The ideal candidate will bring deep experience in cloud technologies, large-scale data processing, and leading the design of high-performance, reliable backend systems.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain backend services and APIs using Java and Python
• Build and optimize Java-based APIs for large-scale data processing
• Ensure high performance, scalability, and reliability of backend systems
• Architect and manage backend services on cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, or Azure)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to deliver production-ready solutions
• Lead technical design discussions and guide best practices

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in backend software development
• Strong proficiency in Java and Python
• Proven experience building scalable APIs and data-driven applications
• Hands-on experience with cloud services and distributed systems
• Solid understanding of databases, microservices, and API performance optimization

Nice to Have

• Experience with Spring Boot, Flask, or FastAPI
• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines
• Exposure to Kafka, Spark, or other big data tools

Skills

Java, Python, API Development, Data Processing, AWS Backend

Skills: Java, API development, Data Processing, AWS backend, Python,

Must-Haves

Java (8+ years), Python (8+ years), API Development (8+ years), Cloud Services (AWS/GCP/Azure), Database & Microservices

8+ years of experience in backend software development

Strong proficiency in Java and Python

Proven experience building scalable APIs and data-driven applications

Hands-on experience with cloud services and distributed systems

Solid understanding of databases, microservices, and API performance optimization

Mandatory Skills: Java API AND AWS

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Notice period - 0 to 15 days only

Job stability is mandatory

Location: Pune, Trivandrum

Strong Software Engineer, Engineering Manager Profiles

Mandatory (Experience) – Must have minimum 4+ years of hands on experience in software development

Mandatory (Tech Skillset) – Must have 3+ years of hands-on experience in backend development using Java / Node.js / Go / Python (any 1) OR 3+ YOE in frontend Development using React / Angular / Vue (any 1)

Mandatory (Mentoring Skillset) – Must have at least 1+ year of experience leading or mentoring a team of software engineers.

Mandatory (Tech Skills) – Must have a solid understanding of microservices architecture, APIs, and cloud platforms (AWS / GCP / Azure).

Mandatory (DevOps Skillset) – Must have hands-on experience working with Docker, Kubernetes, and CI/CD pipelines.

Mandatory (Company) – Top-tier/renowned product-based company (preferred Entreprise B2B SaaS)

Mandatory (Education) – Undergraduation from Tier-1 Engineering College (IIT, BITS, IIIT, NSUT, DTU, etc.)

Mandatory (Note): No hire policy from Sprinklr

Job Description: (Mandate Skills)

• Exceptional architecture and design skills using Object Oriented Programming concepts and Design patterns
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills
• Hands on Java Engineer, with experience building consumer facing or enterprise applications using Java stack
• Ability to manage small teams (2-4 members) using agile development process

Do You Know? (Skills good to have)

• Exposure to building service oriented distributed systems
• In building systems that process big data in a distributed environment, either in real time streaming or offline
• In messaging systems like Kafka, RabbitMQ, kinesis, etc.
• In real time computation tools like Storm / Spark or Hadoop based tools.
• In Data warehousing technologies like Redshift, BigQuery, etc.

Basic Qualifications:

• 2+ years of non-internship professional software development experience
• Programming experience with at least one modern language such as Java, C++, or C# including object-oriented design
• 1+ years of experience contributing to the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability and scaling) of new and current systems.

Additional Job requirements

• BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math or equivalent
• BS in computer science or related field.
• 2+ years of relevant professional software development experience: designing, developing, and delivering software written in Java, C#, or C++, web development.
• Knowledgeable in object-oriented design patterns.
• Experience building highly scalable and distributed systems

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with service-oriented architecture and application/services development
• Passion for performance debugging and benchmarking
• Ability to clearly and concisely communicate with technical and non-technical stakeholders across all levels of the organization

•  Software Architecture and Design.

•  Development and Testing.

•  Deployments and Operations.

Roles & Responsibilities :

We are looking for Senior Software Developer (Elixir/ROR) who have past experience in Elixir or Erlang.

• Design and write with the cutting edge Elixir/ ROR language to improve the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of the company's range of products.
• Work with the engineering team to explore and create new design/architectures geared towards scale and performance.
• Participate in code and design reviews to maintain our high development standards.
• Engage in service capacity and demand planning, software performance analysis, tuning and optimization.
• Collaborate with product and experience teams to define and prototype feature specifications.
• Work closely with the infrastructure team in building and scaling back-end services as well as performing root cause analysis investigations.
• Design, build, analyze and fix large-scale distributed systems.

Qualifications :

We are looking for developers with 5+ years of experience of which 1-2 yrs of past work experience with ROR / Elixir or Erlang. In terms of Elixir we expect the following:

• You should be aware of idiomatic programming in Elixir, and should have good awareness of concepts such as pattern matching, recursion, and behaviors.
• You should be well versed with concurrency and processes in Elixir. 
• You should be hands on with Genservers, Tasks, Agents, Supervisors, and other OTP concepts in Elixir.
• Plus points if you have worked with data processing libraries such as Genstage, Flow and Broadway.
• 5+ years of overall software engineering experience.
• You should have good experience working with relational and non-relational databases. We use Postgres and Cassandra.
• Good to have but not mandatory working experience with caching tools such as Redis, Queue mechanism setup with RabbitMQ.
• Good knowledge of version management with Git.
• Awareness of TDD. 
• CI/CD knowledge would be a huge advantage.
• Will to design and maintain large scale distributed systems.
• Past experience in building complex applications, either by yourself, or as part of a larger team
• Desire (obsessive?) for maintainability.
• Experience of working with cross-functional remote teams in an Agile software development framework.
• Experience in designing APIs with proper documentation.
• Ability to write useful and maintainable tests.
• Good understanding of the common architectural patterns and design principles.
• Solid understanding of how modern web applications work.
• (Nice to have) Being an active member of the Elixir community (writing blog posts, giving presentations in meetups, etc).
• Strong written and verbal communications skills in English to engage a variety of large audiences, internally and externally.
• Strong analytical and reasoning skills.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent in any relevant discipline.

Basic Qualifications

Candidates for this role must have:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or a related field
• At least three years of experience writing production code of increasing complexity
• Strong understanding of computer science fundamentals, including algorithms, complexity analysis, data structures, problem solving, and object-oriented analysis and design
• Proficiency in at least one of the following: Java, C, C++, C#, Ruby, Scala, Python
• Experience refactoring code and evolving architectures
• Experience crafting unit, integration, functional and regression tests

 Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree in computer science or a related field
• Experience developing in a Linux environment
• Experience applying service-oriented architecture techniques to production use cases
• Experience in developing secure, multi-platform mobile applications