Senior Software Engineer, Backend
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Harvey is an AI platform for legal and professional-services organizations.
Series F+Recently funded
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About Harvey
Harvey provides agents and collaborative tools for legal work, including legal research, document analysis, secure workspaces, contract intelligence, and organization-level analytics.
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About the Role
You will design and own backend services and APIs, model data in Postgres, build secure multi-tenant permissions-aware systems, implement LLM and agentic workflows, add observability, improve performance and scalability, and take part in code reviews and on-call rotation.
Requirements
- 6+ years of backend engineering experience on production web applications or SaaS
- Track record building fast-growing SaaS products using PWA technologies
- Track record shipping intuitive products with attention to detail
- Strong Python skills and experience with FastAPI or Flask
- Experience with relational databases such as Postgres
- Understanding of API design, authentication/authorization, background jobs and error handling
- Experience with Azure, AWS or GCP
- Comfort operating production services including on-call
- Authorized to work in India; no visa sponsorship
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with Product to prioritize customer-focused work and deliver features quickly
- Design and own backend services and APIs
- Model and manage data in Postgres and related stores
- Build secure, multi-tenant, permissions-aware systems with auditing
- Implement backend features using LLMs and agentic tools
- Define API contracts with frontend, product and design partners
- Add logging, metrics and tracing
- Improve performance and scalability
- Participate in code reviews, design discussions and on-call rotation