Backend Engineer - Vision

Overview

About Sarvam Sarvam is building the bedrock of Sovereign AI for India. The company is developing India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, building across research, models, infrastructure and applications with a singular focus on making AI genuinely work for India. Sarvam works with leading enterprises and public institutions and is backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures.

What you'll do

• A single 100- page document turning into clean structured JSON involves ingestion, page-level fan out, model inference, post-processing, validation, and assembly, all of which has to be durable, observable, and fast.
• You will own pieces of that path end to end.
• This is a build role early in your career, but not a scoped-ticket role.
• You will be given real surface area, reviewed closely, and expected to grow into owning services outright.
• 1-2 years building backend services that have actually run in production Strong fundamentals in Go or Python, you can write clean, tested, concurrent code and reason about what it does under load
• Solid grasp of HTTP and RESTAPI design, and of async/background job processing Comfort with PostgreSQL and Redis; you understand transactions, indexing, and where state should live
• Working familiarity with Docker; exposure to Kubernetes
• You debug by reading logs, traces and code, not by guessing

Requirements

• Practical experience with Python, Go, Kubernetes, Docker.
• Experience level: 1-2 yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Bengaluru.

Skills