Senior 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

• This means owning the hard trade-off surface directly: accuracy versus latency versus rupees per page.
• Multi-pass inference, model routing and cascades, self-consistency and verification passes, confidence-driven escalation, batching and caching strategy, GPU utilisation.
• These are the levers that decide whether the product works, and you will be the person deciding how to pull them.
• You will also set the reliability bar.
• These pipelines process documents that customers cannot afford to lose, KYC, loan underwriting, claims, contracts.
• Durability, idempotency, backpressure and graceful degradation are the baseline, not the roadmap.
• The architecture you set will be inherited by everything the team builds after you.
• 5-6+ years in backend engineering, with meaningful time spent operating high throughput production systems you were on-call for

Requirements

• Practical experience with Python, Go, Azure, Kubernetes.
• Experience level: 5-6 yrs.
• Strong written and verbal communication in English.
• Comfortable working on-site in Bengaluru.

Skills