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Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad

Sarvam · Bengaluru

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At a glance

Highlights

  • Build Samvaad, a voice and AI-driven dialogue platform for millions of Indians.
  • Power AI conversations at population scale with real-world impact across India.
  • Work on full-stack sovereign AI tackling how India learns, works, and communicates.

What they offer

  • High ownership and high impact, from day one
  • Work alongside researchers, engineers and builders who move fast
  • AI-first culture from building and shipping to problem-solving

Ideal candidate

A high-ownership backend builder who loves tinkering, shipping fast, and solving hard scaling problems. You thrive in fast-moving teams and want your work to power AI conversations for millions across India.

Requirements

  • 5-8 years of backend development experience with distributed systems and Docker, Kubernetes
  • Demonstrated expertise in Python and Go
  • Hands-on experience with AWS, GCP or Azure
  • Strong knowledge of SQL and NoSQL including schema design and scaling
  • Experience with message brokers like Kafka, RabbitMQ or streaming systems
  • Proficiency in algorithms, data structures and asynchronous programming
  • Experience building and scaling WebSocket, gRPC, WebRTC and REST APIs
  • Familiarity with Prometheus, Grafana, ELK and OpenTelemetry
  • Proven ability to own features end-to-end and drive architecture improvements

Lab profile

About Sarvam

Building India's full-stack sovereign AI platform across research, models, infrastructure and applications.

What they build

  • Model API
  • On-device AI
  • Enterprise AI agents

Known for

  • Sovereign AI focus for India
  • Full-stack across research to applications
  • Production deployment at banks, insurers and government
  • Indian-language interactions at scale

Key facts

  • Backed by Lightspeed, Peak XV and Khosla Ventures
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