Function/Group:

Engineering

Experience:

4-9

Location:

India

About Tally The pioneers of software product industry in India, we are a technology and innovation led company simplifying the lives of small and medium businesses over the last three decades. With our cutting-edge technology, we have had the privilege to reach over 2.5 million business globally and cater to more than 7 million users in over 100 countries. We are passionate about the SMEs’ growth and aim to deliver the best for their business through our product innovation and excellence.

Our teams develop some of the most ingenious solutions that suit the unique requirements of millions of businesses across the globe. With a market share of 75% in India, we have a strong foothold in the Middle East and are also serving customers in SAARC & APAC, Africa, and North America. Our robust network of 28000+ partners help us deliver unmatched customer experience in sales, support, and services globally.

With a sole purpose of Making Everyone Who Touches Tally, Happier, we aim to be the technology fabric that drives the economic growth of the world, by 2030.

Culture & Values

Over the years, we have nurtured a value-based culture that let individuals follow their lead and support them in their growth journey with us. We value honesty and integrity, prioritize a people-first culture, pursue excellence, and drive impactful innovation with simplicity.

Our vision at Tally is to ensure that all employees get access to equal opportunities, with decisions grounded on performance, merit, competence, and potential. We are dedicated to fairness and transparency in our policies. By fostering diversity and equality, we strive to eliminate all forms of discrimination.

We are committed to an inclusive leadership where our leaders ensure that our people are empowered to be at their best, professionally, and personally. We take great pride in our work culture which has helped become a proud member of the elite Kincentric Best Employers Club!

Engineering:

Our Engineering centre is located in Bangalore while our sales offices and partners are spread across the country and specific regions outside India.



Our Engineering team consists of highly talented engineers who live a purpose and dream to develop the software that will accomplish our goal ‘To be the technology fabric that drives the economic growth of the world’.

To build this network of businesses Tally likes to build its own technology stack to deliver the required products. Major components of the stack are highlighted below.

- Operating system: We use a trimmed-down version of the Linux
- Database system: An Object-oriented database written by Tally to support single view, replication, distributed and multi-tenancy.
- Web server & app server: We shall write our own hosting platform that can handle millions of connections per server.

Engineering @ Tally is responsible for the Design, Development & Testing of all the delightful and flawless products that we release for our customers. We at Engineering do deep technology innovation to deliver unique experiences and capabilities at scale for simplifying business operations across sectors and segments.

We believe in

- Innovate: Build our tech stack with purpose-driven engineers to craft robust, scalable products that power economic growth.
- Design for the future: Lay the foundation of technology that connects businesses, enabling seamless growth and transformation.
- Engineer the Core: Create resilient, and secure software systems that form the backbone of our mission to drive global prosperity.

What You Will Own We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Backend Lead to join our AI team. As a Backend Lead, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the performance, scalability, and efficiency of our backend architecture while mentoring and leading a team of engineers. This position requires deep expertise in backend engineering, particularly in Python, and a strong understanding of building scalable and efficient systems.

The ideal candidate will have a proven track record of leadership in backend development,



and the ability to drive complex technical initiatives.

Where Your Expertise Meets Our Future

- Strong understanding of STLC, Agile and modern Quality Engineering practices, with expertise in functional, integration, API, regression, end to end, non-functional testing and compatibility testing.
- Ability to analyse requirements and system workflows, design effective test strategies, test scenarios, and risk-based test cases, and ensure comprehensive functional and non-functional coverage.
- Hands-on automation experience with Playwright/Selenium/Cypress and proficiency in Python, Java, JavaScript or TypeScript.
- Strong API and performance testing experience using tools such as Postman, REST Assured, JMeter, Gatling or k6.
- Valuable understanding of microservices, distributed systems, networking, databases and cloud-native architectures.
- Hands-on exposure to AWS/Azure/GCP, Docker/Kubernetes, CI/CD pipelines and Git-based workflows.
- Experience with observability, debugging and RCA using logs, metrics and monitoring tools such as Grafana, CloudWatch or ELK.
- Exposure to AI-assisted testing/development and testing of AI/LLM-based applications is an added advantage.

The Scope of Your Influence

- End-to-End Deployment & Testing: Collaborate with backend engineers to deploy models via Docker/Kubernetes, and design end-to-end test strategies (on-prem and cloud) grounded in system architecture.
- CI/CD & Automation: Maintain robust CI/CD pipelines and drive continuous test automation to minimize turnaround time for new releases.
- Research & Distillation: Actively research state-of-the-art open-source models (e.g., Qwen3, Mistral) and apply Knowledge Distillation to create smaller, faster proprietary models.
- Monitor & Improve: Continuously monitor drift, hallucination rates, and retrieval quality in production systems.
- Code Quality and Best Practices: Ensure that code adheres to best practices, including clean code principles, testing, and documentation.
- Build Agentic Systems: Implement multi-agent workflows using LangGraph to solve complex, multi-step user queries.
- Optimize for Scale: Implement Quantization and vLLM/SGLang strategies to reduce inference costs and latency in production.

📌 Sr. Test Engineer/ Associate Staff Test Engineer - Bangalore (Bengaluru)
🏢 Tally Solutions
📍 Bengaluru