SarvaGram - Senior Backend Engineer - Platform engineering
Position- Senior Backend Engineer - Platform engineering
Company- SarvaGram
Website- https://www.sarvagram.com/
Linkedin- https://www.linkedin.com/compa...
Role Type- Full time
Location- Pune
About Us
SarvaGram is building India's first household centric, data led 'high-tech high-touch' FinTech platform to meet the growing aspirations of rural India, with a bouquet of financial and productivity enhancing offerings.
We achieve this by offering a suite of customized financial and capacity-building products designed to meet the unique requirements of rural households.
From loans and insurance solutions to innovative services like Farming-as-a-Service (FaaS), we equip rural communities with the tools they need to prosper.
Job Description
About the role
Phoenix is the platform engineering squad - the team responsible for the shared backend infrastructure that all squads build on. API gateway, service mesh, shared platform services, the AI SDK integration layer, and the IAM/RBAC SDK are all Phoenix territory.
Senior Backend Engineers on Phoenix are building the surfaces other engineers use. Your customer is not the end borrower - it is the 12 squads that depend on Phoenix's APIs, SDKs, and shared services to build their features. Platform engineering is a product discipline, and the quality of what you build determines the velocity of the entire engineering organisation.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Service Development
Build and maintain the shared backend platform services - the IAM/RBAC SDK, the AI SDK wrapper, the notification service, the event bus, and the feature flag system that every squad consumes
Own the IAM/RBAC SDK implementation - translating the Cloud-Native Platform Architect's design into a production-ready SDK that twelve squads can integrate with confidence
Build the AI SDK integration layer - the secure, consistent interface for squads to call LLM APIs with rate limiting, cost tracking, PII redaction, and fallback handling built in
Design and implement the shared event bus patterns - how domain events are published, subscribed to, and replayed across services using SQS or Kafka
Write the platform SDK documentation and integration guides that product squad engineers use to onboard themselves without requiring Phoenix involvement
API Gateway & Service Mesh
Own the API gateway implementation - routing configuration, authentication enforcement, rate limiting rules, and the observability instrumentation that feeds into the platform monitoring stack
Implement service mesh configuration for inter-service communication - mTLS, circuit breakers, retry policies, and traffic management for the twelve-service landscape
Define and enforce API standards in collaboration with the Cloud-Native Platform Architect - contract-first development, OpenAPI spec, versioning, and backward compatibility discipline
Build the API testing infrastructure - consumer-driven contract tests that catch breaking changes before deployment and give squads confidence in the API gateway configuration
AI-Native Platform Engineering
Use Cursor and Claude as primary development tools - the Phoenix engineering standard is AI-augmented development; all code, tests, and documentation are AI-assisted
Build the n8n and AppSmith integration hooks - the platform-level API endpoints and webhooks that allow Rangers' automations to interact safely with platform services
Implement observability instrumentation across platform services - distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry), structured logging, and metrics that give the organisation visibility into platform health
Quality, Reliability & Mentoring
Set and maintain code quality standards within Phoenix - code review, refactoring discipline, test coverage, and the mentoring of Intermediate and Associate engineers
Own platform service reliability - SLO monitoring, incident response, and the postmortem process when platform services affect product squad delivery
Contribute to the Platform Guild - share platform engineering knowledge, present implementation decisions, and participate in cross-squad technical discussions
Requirements
Professional Experience
6 to 8 years in backend engineering with experience building shared services or platform components consumed by other teams - understanding that your customer is internal engineering is essential
Has designed and maintained SDKs or shared libraries in production - knows what SDK stability means and has experienced the pain of breaking changes
Experience with API gateway configuration and service mesh management in a microservices environment
Active AI tool user - uses Cursor and Claude for development today; AI-assisted engineering is standard practice
Mindset & Soft Skills
Platform identity: Platform identity: 'my customer is other engineers' - takes pride in developer experience, documentation quality, and SDK ergonomics
Reliability: Reliability obsession: platform services fail twelve squads simultaneously when they go down - takes on-call, postmortems, and SLO management seriously
AI-native: AI-native developer: Cursor and Claude open all day - models the AI-augmented engineering practice Phoenix is responsible for demonstrating
Documentation: Documentation culture: platform code without great docs is unusable - writes runbooks, SDK guides, and ADRs as part of the definition of done
Technical Skills
Backend Engineering - Core
Java / Spring Boot & Microservices / platform service design
REST API design (OpenAPI) & Event-driven architecture (SQS / Kafka)
SDK design and development & Distributed systems patterns
Platform Engineering - Core
API gateway implementation & Service mesh (Istio / Linkerd)
IAM / OAuth2 / RBAC implementation & Feature flag systems
OpenTelemetry / distributed tracing & Contract testing (Pact)
AI Native - Core Expectation
Cursor for daily development & Claude for coding and documentation
AI SDK integration design & LLM API patterns (rate limiting / fallback)
Added advantage
Kotlin & AWS (API GW / SQS / Lambda
Kong / Envoy & Kafka
Domain-driven design
Benefits
SarvaGram is on a mission to revolutionize financial services for millions in rural India. We're building the nation's first data-driven platform that combines cutting-edge technology with a human touch to unlock financial possibilities for underserved households.
This is your chance to be at the forefront of innovation. Join us and:
Shape the future of FinTech: We're not just building a product, we're creating a new category. Be a part of defining the future of financial inclusion for rural India.
Embrace a high-growth, high-impact environment: This is a non-linear growth opportunity. Build a platform used by millions and witness the network effect drive massive scale.
Tackle real-world challenges: Apply your skills to solve critical problems and directly empower rural communities.
Craft solutions that touch lives: Develop innovative products used by diverse household members, each with unique needs
