Sarvam
Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad at Sarvam
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Sarvam
Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad
Bengaluru
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2. Job description from Sarvam
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.
3. Skills that usually matter in software engineering roles
General guidance from TechJobs360, not part of Sarvam’s posting. The job description above is what counts for this role.
| Area | What to be comfortable with |
|---|---|
| Languages | Java, Python, Go, C# or C++ |
| Frameworks & tools | A web framework, SQL and NoSQL databases, Git, cloud basics |
| Computer science basics | Data structures, algorithms, complexity |
| Ways of working | Version control, code review, testing, reading other people's code |
4. How to prepare for a Software Development Engineer 3, Samvaad interview
Interview formats differ by company and team, so confirm the rounds with the recruiter. Most hiring loops for roles like this cover:
A recruiter call or an online test. Read the job description twice and be ready to explain how your experience matches it.
Often coding problems on arrays, strings, trees, graphs or dynamic programming, solved while you explain your thinking.
Often design and trade-off questions sized to the role: an API, a component, or a small system.
Answer with the STAR method (Situation, Task, Action, Result). Prepare two or three real stories: a hard problem you solved, a disagreement you handled, and something you learned quickly.
5. Take-home pay example (FY 2026–27, new tax regime)
An example for two common package sizes, not this job’s salary. Under the new tax regime (Section 115BAC) salaried employees get a standard deduction of ₹75,000.
| Component | Example: ₹12 LPA | Example: ₹24 LPA |
|---|---|---|
| Basic salary (40% of CTC) | ₹40,000 / mo | ₹80,000 / mo |
| Employee EPF (12% of basic) | -₹4,800 / mo | -₹9,600 / mo |
| Income tax (TDS) | -₹6,933 / mo | -₹32,450 / mo |
| Professional tax | -₹200 / mo | -₹200 / mo |
| Approx. in-hand | ₹81,344 / mo | ₹1,44,304 / mo |
Work out the take-home pay for your own offer, in either tax regime.
6. Questions and how to apply
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