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# Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad at Sarvam

- **Company:** [Sarvam](https://feeny.ai/companies/sarvam)
- **Location:** Bengaluru, India
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** onsite
- **Posted:** 2026-11-04
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-11-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam/4c7378a7-6736-4038-b584-f2dc242d756c

## Job description

## 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. Sarvam partners with India's leading brands, including Tata Capital, SBI Life, CRED, IDFC, and LIC.

## About the Role

We are looking for a skilled Backend Engineer to join our Conversational Agents team, building Samvaad — our voice and AI-driven dialogue platform. A day at Samvaad means tackling hard problems, fast feedback, and real impact, all while working with a team that loves tinkering and shipping. You'll design and develop the server-side logic, APIs, and platform orchestration that powers AI conversations for millions of Indians.

## What You'll Do

- Build and maintain backend services — scalable APIs (REST/gRPC), fault-tolerant systems, and clean, testable code.
- Design schemas, tune queries (Postgres/NoSQL), manage unstructured data, and apply caching and indexing strategies for performance.
- Deliver reliable releases with full observability — metrics, logs, traces — and ensure backward compatibility.
- Contribute to architecture discussions, resolve scaling and latency bottlenecks, and drive improvements in performance and reliability.
- 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.

## About Sarvam

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Sarvam is building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform, delivering state-of-the-art models and enterprise-grade applications for Indic languages.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series A – $41M raised)
- **Headquarters**: Bengaluru, India
- **Founded**: August 2023
- **Founders**: Dr. Vivek Raghavan, Dr. Pratyush Kumar

## Core Business
- Primary industry: Artificial Intelligence / Generative AI
- Target customers: Enterprises, Government, Developers (B2B, B2G)
- Mission: Make AI widely accessible to everyone in India by building foundational components that reflect how the country thinks, speaks, reasons, and solves problems.

## Products & Services
- **Sarvam Cloud**: Fully managed, automatically scaling API platform for Indic AI capabilities.
- **Speech to Text (Saaras)**: High‑accuracy ASR across 12 Indic languages.
- **Text to Speech (Bulbul)**: Natural voices across 11 Indic languages.
- **Translation**: State‑of‑the‑art translation across 23 languages.
- **Document Digitisation (Akshar)**: Convert PDFs and images into structured data.
- **Vision Models**: Image understanding and processing.
- **Samvaad**: Conversational AI studio for building voice agents.
- **Arya**: AI‑for‑work platform with forward‑deployed engineers for custom agent design and integration.
- **Deployment Options**: Private cloud, on‑premise, hybrid, or air‑gapped environments.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private)
- **Key Metric**: Total funding $41M (from Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures, Lightspeed, Peak XV Partners
- **Growth Signals**: 62 open positions across engineering, models, product, sales, and more; case studies with large‑scale deployments (50,000+ farmer feedback calls, millions of policy calls); SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, DPDP compliant.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Sovereign AI**: All technology developed and operated entirely in India, with full data control and compliance with Indian data protection laws.
- **Full‑stack platform**: From foundational models to enterprise agents, everything built in‑house.
- **Forward‑deployed engineering**: Dedicated engineers embedded with customer teams to ensure successful delivery.
- **Population‑scale impact**: Proven ability to serve millions of users in Indic languages across government and BFSI.
- **Deployment flexibility**: Can run on any infrastructure, including air‑gapped for regulated industries.

## Strategic Focus
- Continue building state‑of‑the‑art models and tools for Indic languages.
- Expand enterprise and government adoption of conversational AI agents.
- Nurture the Indian AI ecosystem by open‑sourcing models and tools.
- Scale team rapidly (62 open roles) to support growing customer demand.

## Why Work Here
- **Mission‑driven opportunity**: Shape AI that serves India’s linguistic and cultural diversity.
- **On‑site first**: All roles are based in Bengaluru (Delhi also available), fostering deep collaboration.
- **Cutting‑edge work**: Foundational model research, ML infrastructure, full‑stack product engineering.
- **High‑impact culture**: Teams work directly with customers via forward‑deployed engineers, seeing immediate real‑world use.
- **Backed by top investors**: Financial stability and growth runway from Lightspeed, Peak XV, and Khosla Ventures.

## Sources
1. [sarvam.ai](https://www.sarvam.ai/)
2. [sarvam.ai/about-us](https://www.sarvam.ai/about-us)
3. [sarvam.ai/careers](https://www.sarvam.ai/careers)
4. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sarvam)
5. [linkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai](https://www.linkedin.com/company/sarvam-ai)

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