Backend Engineer, Vision

Sarvam AI; Bengaluru; Hybrid; INR 1,800,000 - 2,400,000; Full time

Job summary

Sarvam is hiring a Backend Engineer for the Vision team in Bengaluru. You will build and scale the infrastructure behind Vision APIs and the Akshar Platform, owning high‑throughput API services and observability.

Hybrid work in Bengaluru, India, with a focus on reliability and secure coding practices. Ideal candidates have 2–4 years of backend experience, strong Python skills, and hands-on work with FastAPI, databases, and cloud tooling.

Qualifications

• 2–4 years of backend experience with Python.
• Proven API development experience using FastAPI or similar.
• Experience with high-throughput, low-latency services.

Responsibilities

• Build and scale Vision APIs with high throughput and low latency.
• Develop Python-based API services using FastAPI.
• Maintain observability, monitoring, and security for backend systems.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and deployment workflows.

Skills

Python

FastAPI

HTTP/WebSocket

API design

CI/CD

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

Celery/Taskiq

Docker

Kubernetes

Azure/AWS/GCP

Tools

Docker

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Redis

MongoDB

Celery/Taskiq

FastAPI tooling

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 hiring a Backend Engineer for the Vision team, responsible for building and scaling the infrastructure behind our Vision APIs and the Akshar Platform. You will own key parts of the backend stack — from high-throughput API services to observability infrastructure and system security. This is a hands-on role for someone who thrives on making systems faster, more reliable, and easier to operate.

Experience: 2–4 years | Location: Bengaluru, India (Hybrid)

What You’ll Do

• Build and scale Vision APIs for high throughput, low latency, and fault tolerance, supporting public-facing and enterprise workloads.

• Design, develop, and optimise Python-based API services using FastAPI to serve vision capabilities at scale.

• Build and maintain an observability stack — monitoring, alerting, and debugging — across APIs, deployments, and infrastructure.

• Improve backend security and reliability, including authentication, rate limiting, and secure coding practices.

• Configure and manage infrastructure for the Akshar Platform, including the orchestration engine and proofreading UI services.

• Own and improve CI/CD pipelines, deployment workflows, and AI-assisted code review processes.

• Build robust, real-time communication layers using HTTP and WebSocket protocols.

• Ensure systems are observable, reliable, and maintainable across cloud environments.

What We’re Looking For

• Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience building APIs using FastAPI or similar frameworks.

• Solid understanding of HTTP and WebSocket protocols.

• Proven experience building and debugging backend systems with a focus on low latency and high availability.

• Experience setting up or working with CI/CD pipelines for production deployments.

• Hands-on experience with PostgreSQL, Redis, and MongoDB (or similar data stores).

• Experience with task queues and asynchronous processing using Celery, Taskiq, or equivalent.

• Familiarity with Docker, Kubernetes, and container orchestration in production environments.

• Hands-on experience with Azure (preferred) or another major cloud platform (AWS, GCP).

• Strong focus on secure coding practices, code quality, and system reliability.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.

• Beginner-to-intermediate understanding of ML concepts and model serving infrastructure.

• Prior exposure to vision-based AI systems or document processing pipelines.

• Contributions to open-source backend projects or a solid GitHub portfolio.

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.