Champion best practices — enforce coding standards, mentor peers, and stay current with backend and Generative AI technologies.
Build enterprise-grade software with strong security practices in adherence to privacy and compliance policies.
Collaborate across teams — integrate models into production, define data contracts with frontend and product, and partner with DevOps for smooth deployments.
What We're Looking For
5-8 years of backend development experience, with exposure to distributed systems and container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
Demonstrated expertise in Python and Go & Hands-on experience with at least one major cloud platform (AWS, GCP, or Azure).
Strong knowledge of SQL (Postgres/MySQL) and NoSQL (Cassandra/ScyllaDB), including schema design, query optimisation, and scaling.
Experience with message brokers (Kafka, RabbitMQ) or streaming systems.
Proficiency in algorithms, data structures, and asynchronous programming patterns.
Experience building and scaling WebSocket/gRPC/WebRTC/REST APIs.
Familiarity with logging, monitoring, and tracing tools (e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, OpenTelemetry).
Strong debugging skills with a focus on performance, scalability, and reliability.
Proven ability to own features end-to-end, review code, and drive process or architecture improvements.
Bonus Points
End-to-end ownership of the full stack, including frontend technologies such as React, TypeScript, and Next.js.
Experience setting up CI/CD pipelines for automated testing and deployment.
Contributions to open-source projects or a strong GitHub portfolio showcasing backend work.
Why Sarvam?
Sarvam is a fast-moving, high talent-density team building full-stack AI for India, working on problems that push the frontiers of AI with real population-scale impact.
Work alongside researchers, engineers, builders, and business leaders who move fast and hold each other to a very high bar
High ownership and high impact, from day one
Everything we do is AI-first, from the way we build and ship to the way we think about problems
You can work on problems that could change how an entire country learns, works, and communicates
If you want to work on problems at the frontier of AI in India, Sarvam is the place to be.
