Frontend Engineer

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 Frontend Engineer to build and own the web experience for Sarvam Studio — a creative media platform that lets users dub videos, clone voices, generate music, build multi-step AI pipelines, and process content across 12+ Indian languages, all from the browser. You will work across the full product surface: real-time media workflows, a visual pipeline canvas where users wire together AI capabilities with drag-and-drop, billing and usage dashboards, and the shared design system that underpins everything.

This is a high-ownership role in a small, fast-moving team. You will ship features end-to-end — from API integration through state management to polished UI — and directly impact how millions of Indian creators and enterprises interact with AI-powered media tools.

What You’ll Do

• Build and iterate on Studio’s core media workflows — video dubbing (upload, record, progress tracking, result playback, sharing), voice dubbing (real-time recording with waveform visualization), and voice cloning

• Own a visual node-based pipeline editor where users compose AI capabilities (speech, translation, voice cloning, music, video) into custom workflows via drag-and-drop

• Implement real-time job progress tracking — live status updates, stage-by-stage progress indicators, and async result delivery

• Build media-rich experiences — in-browser video/audio recording, file uploads, video players with share-ready exports, waveform rendering, and audio playback controls

• Work within a modern monorepo architecture using Next.js (App Router), React, and TypeScript

• Consume and extend an internal design system — building reusable components, maintaining design tokens, and ensuring consistency across products

• Manage complex client and server state efficiently, integrate RESTful APIs, and handle authentication flows

• Optimize for performance — code splitting, lazy loading, and efficient re-renders for media-heavy pages

• Ensure cross-browser compatibility, responsive design, and accessibility

• Instrument features with analytics and error monitoring for data-driven iteration

• Write tests and maintain CI/CD quality gates

• Contribute to shared component libraries — audio players, rich text editors, data visualizations, and media utilities

What We’re Looking For

• 3–5 years of experience in frontend engineering, with a focus on shipping production web applications

• Strong proficiency in React and TypeScript — comfortable with hooks, context, custom abstractions, and performance optimization (non-negotiable)

• Hands-on experience with Next.js (App Router, server components, API routes, middleware) (non-negotiable)

• Experience with state management at scale — React Query, Redux, Zustand, or similar

• Familiarity with component-driven development — working with or building design systems and component libraries (Radix, shadcn/ui, or equivalent)

• Comfort working with media APIs in the browser — video/audio playback, MediaRecorder, File/Blob handling

• Experience integrating RESTful APIs — handling auth tokens, file uploads, polling patterns, and error states

• Strong CSS/Tailwind skills — ability to build responsive, pixel-perfect UIs from design specs

• Familiarity with monorepo tooling and modern frontend build systems

Bonus Points

• Experience building node-based editors or visual programming interfaces

• Familiarity with real-time features — WebSocket connections, streaming responses, live audio/video, or Server-Sent Events

• Experience with video/audio processing in the browser — Web Audio API, waveform visualization, or media encoding

• Hands-on experience with product analytics and error monitoring tooling

• Prior work on SaaS billing UIs — credit systems, usage dashboards, payment integrations

• Familiarity with Indic languages — understanding of multilingual UI challenges and transliteration inputs

• Experience with animation libraries for polished micro-interactions

• Contributions to open-source frontend projects or a strong 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.