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 hiring a Senior Backend Engineer for the Vision team to own and evolve our Document Intelligence and Vision APIs, and the backend infrastructure powering the Akshar Platform. This is a high-ownership IC role with tech-lead responsibilities — you will lead architectural refactors across core API systems, build observability and security foundations, manage infrastructure and deployment resources, and raise the bar on developer experience for both external consumers and the internal team. You will also mentor engineers and help shape technical standards.
Experience: 4–6 years | Location:



Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

What You'll Do
• Architect and implement improvements to the Document Intelligence and Vision APIs for higher throughput, lower latency, and better fault tolerance.

• Scale API services to handle growing production traffic reliably and efficiently.

• Build a comprehensive observability stack to monitor API performance, deployments, storage, and the Akshar Platform — with alerting and automated fallbacks.

• Manage allocation of infrastructure resources across APIs, model deployments, and cloud environments.

• Build a solid security and reliability foundation across all public-facing and internal systems.

• Improve developer experience for external API consumers (documentation, SDKs, error messages) and for internal processes (tooling, local dev setup, onboarding).

• Lead architectural refactors across API design, data layer, async processing, and infer

📌 Senior Backend Engineer,Vision (Bengaluru)
🏢 Sarvam AI
📍 Bengaluru