Services & API Engineer - Sarvam AI

About Job

The Sarvam AI Reasoning team is building sophisticated reasoning capabilities for India's first sovereign AI platform. We're recruiting talented Python Developers to join our high-caliber engineering team focused on developing enterprise-grade reasoning solutions. In this role, you will architect and develop advanced backend services that power our "Think" mode and reasoning capabilities, working with our proprietary Sarvam-2 foundation model. You'll help create a secure, highly scalable system that processes data with complete Indian sovereignty while delivering excellent performance solutions for enterprise and government sectors.

This position offers the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI reasoning technology built specifically for Indian organizations. We seek candidates with strong expertise in microservices, event-driven architecture and secure data pipelines who can demonstrate technical excellence. Your contributions will directly advance knowledge democratization, accelerated decision-making, and document processing optimized for Indian contexts across organizational language divides.

Skills & Qualification

• Bachelor's/Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field from a top-tier institution (IITs, NITs, BITS, or equivalent prestigious universities)

• 2-5 years of exceptional experience in Python development, with demonstrated expertise in backend services and API engineering

• Distinguished track record in designing and implementing sophisticated microservice architectures, event-driven programming, and polyglot persistence strategies

• In-depth understanding of API security principles and proven experience implementing secure, enterprise-grade APIs (REST/GraphQL)

• Advanced knowledge of CQRS patterns and distributed systems architecture

• Superior proficiency in asynchronous Python programming with a portfolio of high-performance implementations

• Comprehensive knowledge of data sovereignty controls and secure data handling practices highly desired

Responsibilities

• Own the complete lifecycle of domain-bounded microservices using event-driven architectures, implemented with asynchronous python

• Build RESTful and GraphQL APIs with comprehensive versioning and contract validation

• Design polyglot persistence strategies tailored to each service's specific requirements, along with CQRS for scalable query performance

• Own comprehensive testing suites including contract tests between service boundaries

• Implement proper authentication hooks and authorization checks within application code

• Implement application-level rate limiting, throttling, and resilience patterns

• Create domain-specific real-time data pipelines with proper data sovereignty controls

• Collaborate with our AI teams to integrate backend services with our "Vajra Mode" and "Think" mode capabilities

• Help develop data integration frameworks for enterprise deployment

• Contribute to building specialized vertical solutions for key industries